to recharge your batteries....most folks are going to be hooking up to con-ed (your local utility)... and how does con-ed generate electricity? By burning dinosaur remains... or... perhaps a nuke...

seems that we should be, at the federal level, encouraging decentralized power generation.... from the likes of windmills, geothermal, sun and etc.

instead of spending 300 t0 400 billion to secure the oil fields... it would be far cheaper to wean ourselves off of the dino remains.

I have some land upstate PA... about 30 miles from my mountaintop is a wind mill farm (with several dozen units operating)... and I just always think that, perhaps, this should be done on a grand scale.

though, interestingly, there was significant opposition to the wind mill farm by area residents.

cheers,

msl