It can be done from your couch. If only cleaning up the environment were so easy.
Demand is dismal.
Enron, the Texas-based natural gas company, which was supposed to be the most aggressive renewable energy marketer, pulled out of the residential market altogether citing lack of demand. And cost considerations are also expected to be the critical factor for business, which uses two-thirds of all electricity. It is not often that Ralph Nader's Public Citizen aligns with conservative, free-market advocates such as Citizens for a Sound Economy. What has brought them together is a mutual disgust with how energy deregulation is playing out around the country. And their ire is directed as much at the country's highest-profile environmental groups as at the energy giants.