Swisher is cautiously optimistic about the approach and its chances. But it will all hinge on stranded costs, which, unfortunately, Schaefer is also advocating. Kucinich and a host of consumer and safe energy groups vow to fight what could become the biggest corporate bailout of all, with tragic long-term economic and ecological repercussions. Without a domestic market to build on, we just won't have an infrastructure for competing in the global market. This means U.S. consumers will be stuck with an obsolete energy system and the tab for the failure of atomic power while Denmark, Germany, India and much of the rest of the world will reap winds the United States once helped stir.
Wind energy is already the cheapest form of electricity and can only spread further.
Those who miss this will lose greatly.