It was many years ago that Jimmy Carter had solar panels installed on the white house roof and offered tax credits to Americans using solar energy. Ronald Reagan, in a somewhat thumb-his-nose at prior administration maneuver, had the solar panels removed and the tax credits eliminated. While Reagan probably assumed he was squashing frivolous spending, it goes to show how long we have seen renewable energy as our next step in environmental evolution.
Coming full circle, the army now plans to acquire 4,000 electric vehicles for non-combat use on military bases (and potentially even replacing all non-combat cars which number in the 30,000’s). Read the rest of this entry »
