What if we could break the grip of oil and gas companies, slash electricity bills, and unleash an American energy revolution that starts on our own rooftops?
Report from Colorado: Amendment 82 is likely to fail. It would require 55% to pass, and that is unlikely. Voters are wary of any new constitutional amendments after the mess created by past ones, especially TABOR (Taxpayer Bill of Rights), a Prop 13 clone passed in 1992.
And a ray of hope. Most electric distribution cooperatives in Colorado rely heavily on renewable sources. The coops were mostly created under the Rural Electrification Agency beginning in 1934, the same year that Nebraska started condemning investor-owned electric utilities to be part of its public power district network.
As much as corporations try to disguise themselves as people in order to claim rights, voters can see right through this masquerade, even if certain justices refuse to. Corporations have no rights, because they are not persons, not animals, not in any way a thing of nature.
I think that we get lost in the weeds, or as they say can't see the forest for the trees.
The issue is control, control of a nation, nations, the world.
The tool of control is energy, control energy and you control society, a nation, nations, the world..
For those who watch Malcolm Nance's podcast on his substack (malcolmnance.substack.com ) aka Blackman spy, you have heard him mention the Globalarchy.
Their are oligarchies, broligarchies, petrogarchies, Russia's oligarchies, but above them is the globalarchy.
If that is the case, then control of energy is the key to control of the globe.
Trump is a fool and a tool, and thus a perfect instrument for control of energy, that is why he control Venezuela, is on track to control Greenland, wants control of Canada, Mexico and is dismantling and outlawing green energy. Solar and windmills besides cutting the oil companies out of profits, are decentralized sources of energy. Control of Russian energy is already centralized.
The centralization of energy and communications are essential to social control. and the various oligarchies play their role.
In America there is oligarchical control of oil, communications, information (the press) and increasingly transportation, and as of late government ownership, hence control of communications and the defense industry.
The latest directive to slow down the Ukrainian internet, which is provided by Space X, came from inside the White House
.Fom Just Security newsletter: "The order to limit SpaceX Starshield services used by Ukraine for battlefield communications and drone operations came from inside the White House, U.S. officials told Reuters. The officials said leaders in the U.S. Defense Department received a message that the SpaceX Starshield service for the Ukrainian military needed to be slowed, but did not specify who in the White House made the decision or who was responsible for implementing the order. Erin Banco and Gram Slattery report.
I have long thought that every new subdivision should have solar on every roof during construction. It would save in the long run. But, here in Florida under Ron DeSantis, FPL and the other utility company was allowed to stop paying homeowners for the extra electricity they generated. GOP good for the people 🤣😀😀
We need to go back in time!!! We need to trust the first warnings!!! But we are here now, and we have to fight like hell to stop the corrupt way of doing business as usual. I haven't stopped shouting from roof tops that there are solutions to the gas industry. And most of the world has listened. The USA was headed in the right direction under several Democratic Presidents. But BIG OIL has too much to loose if we all turn away from them. I proposed that they re-tool, re-design and learn and invest in alternative energy, over 20 years ago. They turned a deaf ear and planted their feet. At my age now 76 I still have hope, that people can turn this around.
I hate to rain on your parade of hopefulness Thom because you make a lot of sense so that means it will never be addressed. Our species is doomed to destroy itself. Indeed, it's well on its way. And this observation is not new. Jean Baptiste Lamarck, the inventor of the species classification system in use today, observed in his last book written in 1820 in which he dwelled not only on the destructive results of human activities such as large-scale deforestation but on the dangers of ignoring the warning signs: "It looks, he wrote, as if man is destined to exterminate himself after making the globe uninhabitable."
We need clean energy for our survival! The dinosaur idiots like trump and his ilk are literally killing the planet and that means us. We are being dragged away from sanity by a career criminal in our White House. Money for the rich only helps the rich. This so called leadership is crazy! Enough is enough.
It truly seems extraction of fossil fuels is at the root of so many evils - air, water, food packaging, pesticides, herbicides, other chemicals that directly cause illness, and the shocking power of oligarchy enabled by the support of right-wing activist judges.
The main reason I do not have solar panels on my roof is hurricanes. I have a heavy tile roof strapped to the concrete walls of my house on the Florida barrier islands to keep it from blowing off in wind storms. Attaching solar panels would not only weaken the tiles the panels are attached to, they would actually help capture wind, helping to tear the tiles and underlayment off the roof. Florida Power and Light is expanding the number of its solar farms which helps to dampen electric costs. However, getting free electricity would not compensate me for losing my roof and all my furniture, artwork, and decoration - curtains too. In addition, because the roof enables me to weather tropical storms unscathed, I save about $16,000/year in insurance premiums. My electric bill is only about $4,800/year. Moreover, tile roofs insulate the house from wildfires, as burning embers landing on the roof just burn themselves out or blow off onto the ground. So, ironically, living where the sun is 365, solar is not as economical as perhaps in Oregon, where storms do not rip off roofs and totally destroy homes.
Colorado has a ballot issue to prohibit natural gas appliances. That would be a terrible finical burden for consumers to change over to electric for home heating and cooking. Most of the electricity generation is switching to natural gas from coal fired plants. Natural gas was promoted as a cleaner alternative to gasoline and diesel for vehicles. What happened to that?
I think the mandatory change over is not the correct way to make it happen. It will happen when electric becomes more affordable and timely replacements are needed.
Thanks Thom for addressing this sustainable clean energy issue. You should connect with Bill McKibbin and his Third Act movement. Solar is a prime focus of Bill’s work (now and lifelong) to reverse the damage done to our climate by our reliance for so long on fossil fuels as an energy source.
The Republicans this election cycle are running on illegal wars, murdering American citizens, corruption by gaming the system for personal profit, taking away healthcare, authoritarian rule, and building a tech oligarchy that would be the envy of the late 1900’s robber barons taxing the middle class while giving tax breaks for billionaires. That’s a crazy policy list to run on.
No wonder they have nothing to say and avoid debates.
And it's Vietnam all over again but now in plain sight as to the origins of the war and the political machinations that were not visible in the late 1960's and early 1970's until revealed by Ellsburg's Pentagon Papers in 1971. Now it's for everyone to see and evaluate. No deception but eventually the same outcome. Another stupid military expedition illegally done by a demented feeble minded shamefully "elected" fascist leader. Vote these Republican fascist dolts out of office. They don't deserve to run for dogcatcher.
Have they no shame? Of course not. They have been hypocrites for 50+years. Remember Mitch?
Many of the people of this country live in a cave where the sun cannot be seen, truly informative books are seldom read, and knowledge is thought of as something that will harm people or offends God. The wool can be pulled over the eyes of millions of people, convincing them that developing clean energy at scale for everyone is somehow unnecessary, too expensive, or for a distant future. The most sensible and logical advances are freakishly vetoed by special interests, depriving and cheating the majority out of what is available elsewhere. Without profound changes in leadership and in the Supreme Court, and especially in schooling, we will be stuck and going backward. It would be nice if one or two elections could change all that. We can hope. But I would not count on that being nearly enough. Fox Noise and the many other reactionary and superstitious purveyors of ignorance will still have a huge audience until much more fundamental changes are made.
Thank you so much! I will read the sources you referenced in order to learn more.
Climate Change (caused mainly by burning fossil fuels) is here, happening right now in the year 2026! Climate Change is the MOST IMPORTANT issue.
We need to educate the layperson on what is happening and why.
We need to pressure our government representatives to take this seriously and pass legislation (as you point out) to wean us off fossil fuels and onto other safe sources of electricity.
This issue is now my top concern, and I will produce ripples which, hopefully, will contribute to our country making the necessary changes.
Report from Colorado: Amendment 82 is likely to fail. It would require 55% to pass, and that is unlikely. Voters are wary of any new constitutional amendments after the mess created by past ones, especially TABOR (Taxpayer Bill of Rights), a Prop 13 clone passed in 1992.
And a ray of hope. Most electric distribution cooperatives in Colorado rely heavily on renewable sources. The coops were mostly created under the Rural Electrification Agency beginning in 1934, the same year that Nebraska started condemning investor-owned electric utilities to be part of its public power district network.
Yes! Solar and wind. I am Leary about nuclear- a follower of Helen Caldecott!
As much as corporations try to disguise themselves as people in order to claim rights, voters can see right through this masquerade, even if certain justices refuse to. Corporations have no rights, because they are not persons, not animals, not in any way a thing of nature.
I think that we get lost in the weeds, or as they say can't see the forest for the trees.
The issue is control, control of a nation, nations, the world.
The tool of control is energy, control energy and you control society, a nation, nations, the world..
For those who watch Malcolm Nance's podcast on his substack (malcolmnance.substack.com ) aka Blackman spy, you have heard him mention the Globalarchy.
Their are oligarchies, broligarchies, petrogarchies, Russia's oligarchies, but above them is the globalarchy.
If that is the case, then control of energy is the key to control of the globe.
Trump is a fool and a tool, and thus a perfect instrument for control of energy, that is why he control Venezuela, is on track to control Greenland, wants control of Canada, Mexico and is dismantling and outlawing green energy. Solar and windmills besides cutting the oil companies out of profits, are decentralized sources of energy. Control of Russian energy is already centralized.
The centralization of energy and communications are essential to social control. and the various oligarchies play their role.
In America there is oligarchical control of oil, communications, information (the press) and increasingly transportation, and as of late government ownership, hence control of communications and the defense industry.
The latest directive to slow down the Ukrainian internet, which is provided by Space X, came from inside the White House
.Fom Just Security newsletter: "The order to limit SpaceX Starshield services used by Ukraine for battlefield communications and drone operations came from inside the White House, U.S. officials told Reuters. The officials said leaders in the U.S. Defense Department received a message that the SpaceX Starshield service for the Ukrainian military needed to be slowed, but did not specify who in the White House made the decision or who was responsible for implementing the order. Erin Banco and Gram Slattery report.
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I have long thought that every new subdivision should have solar on every roof during construction. It would save in the long run. But, here in Florida under Ron DeSantis, FPL and the other utility company was allowed to stop paying homeowners for the extra electricity they generated. GOP good for the people 🤣😀😀
Thanks for the info Joy ... FPL not paying homeowners back ... that's disgusting.
We need to go back in time!!! We need to trust the first warnings!!! But we are here now, and we have to fight like hell to stop the corrupt way of doing business as usual. I haven't stopped shouting from roof tops that there are solutions to the gas industry. And most of the world has listened. The USA was headed in the right direction under several Democratic Presidents. But BIG OIL has too much to loose if we all turn away from them. I proposed that they re-tool, re-design and learn and invest in alternative energy, over 20 years ago. They turned a deaf ear and planted their feet. At my age now 76 I still have hope, that people can turn this around.
I hate to rain on your parade of hopefulness Thom because you make a lot of sense so that means it will never be addressed. Our species is doomed to destroy itself. Indeed, it's well on its way. And this observation is not new. Jean Baptiste Lamarck, the inventor of the species classification system in use today, observed in his last book written in 1820 in which he dwelled not only on the destructive results of human activities such as large-scale deforestation but on the dangers of ignoring the warning signs: "It looks, he wrote, as if man is destined to exterminate himself after making the globe uninhabitable."
Maybe AI will kill us before we kill ourselves and everything else.
We need clean energy for our survival! The dinosaur idiots like trump and his ilk are literally killing the planet and that means us. We are being dragged away from sanity by a career criminal in our White House. Money for the rich only helps the rich. This so called leadership is crazy! Enough is enough.
It truly seems extraction of fossil fuels is at the root of so many evils - air, water, food packaging, pesticides, herbicides, other chemicals that directly cause illness, and the shocking power of oligarchy enabled by the support of right-wing activist judges.
The main reason I do not have solar panels on my roof is hurricanes. I have a heavy tile roof strapped to the concrete walls of my house on the Florida barrier islands to keep it from blowing off in wind storms. Attaching solar panels would not only weaken the tiles the panels are attached to, they would actually help capture wind, helping to tear the tiles and underlayment off the roof. Florida Power and Light is expanding the number of its solar farms which helps to dampen electric costs. However, getting free electricity would not compensate me for losing my roof and all my furniture, artwork, and decoration - curtains too. In addition, because the roof enables me to weather tropical storms unscathed, I save about $16,000/year in insurance premiums. My electric bill is only about $4,800/year. Moreover, tile roofs insulate the house from wildfires, as burning embers landing on the roof just burn themselves out or blow off onto the ground. So, ironically, living where the sun is 365, solar is not as economical as perhaps in Oregon, where storms do not rip off roofs and totally destroy homes.
Colorado has a ballot issue to prohibit natural gas appliances. That would be a terrible finical burden for consumers to change over to electric for home heating and cooking. Most of the electricity generation is switching to natural gas from coal fired plants. Natural gas was promoted as a cleaner alternative to gasoline and diesel for vehicles. What happened to that?
I think the mandatory change over is not the correct way to make it happen. It will happen when electric becomes more affordable and timely replacements are needed.
Thanks Thom for addressing this sustainable clean energy issue. You should connect with Bill McKibbin and his Third Act movement. Solar is a prime focus of Bill’s work (now and lifelong) to reverse the damage done to our climate by our reliance for so long on fossil fuels as an energy source.
Fascist Republicans: Not Even For Dogcatcher
The Republicans this election cycle are running on illegal wars, murdering American citizens, corruption by gaming the system for personal profit, taking away healthcare, authoritarian rule, and building a tech oligarchy that would be the envy of the late 1900’s robber barons taxing the middle class while giving tax breaks for billionaires. That’s a crazy policy list to run on.
No wonder they have nothing to say and avoid debates.
And it's Vietnam all over again but now in plain sight as to the origins of the war and the political machinations that were not visible in the late 1960's and early 1970's until revealed by Ellsburg's Pentagon Papers in 1971. Now it's for everyone to see and evaluate. No deception but eventually the same outcome. Another stupid military expedition illegally done by a demented feeble minded shamefully "elected" fascist leader. Vote these Republican fascist dolts out of office. They don't deserve to run for dogcatcher.
Have they no shame? Of course not. They have been hypocrites for 50+years. Remember Mitch?
We must re-imagine ownership of the U.S.A., which is why I joined the DSA.
Many of the people of this country live in a cave where the sun cannot be seen, truly informative books are seldom read, and knowledge is thought of as something that will harm people or offends God. The wool can be pulled over the eyes of millions of people, convincing them that developing clean energy at scale for everyone is somehow unnecessary, too expensive, or for a distant future. The most sensible and logical advances are freakishly vetoed by special interests, depriving and cheating the majority out of what is available elsewhere. Without profound changes in leadership and in the Supreme Court, and especially in schooling, we will be stuck and going backward. It would be nice if one or two elections could change all that. We can hope. But I would not count on that being nearly enough. Fox Noise and the many other reactionary and superstitious purveyors of ignorance will still have a huge audience until much more fundamental changes are made.
Dear Thom,
This article is SO TIMELY!
Thank you so much! I will read the sources you referenced in order to learn more.
Climate Change (caused mainly by burning fossil fuels) is here, happening right now in the year 2026! Climate Change is the MOST IMPORTANT issue.
We need to educate the layperson on what is happening and why.
We need to pressure our government representatives to take this seriously and pass legislation (as you point out) to wean us off fossil fuels and onto other safe sources of electricity.
This issue is now my top concern, and I will produce ripples which, hopefully, will contribute to our country making the necessary changes.