Comments on: Shell ditches wind and solar for biofuel only investments

By: Karl Hallowell

Karl Hallowell — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 14:47:33 +0000

“Between Shell’s decisions to stop its clean energy investments and to increase its debt load to pay for dividends, the company is solidifying an image of corporate greed over corporate responsibility. ”

Or fiduciary responsibility over stupidity. And now is a great time to borrow money especially if you have higher interest rate debt that you can pay off in the process. You just are just mistaken as to why they are borrowing money.

By: GreenBoy

GreenBoy — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 13:26:33 +0000

We want the government to create laws that confiscate money through excessive taxation of the richest 40% of the population. We Green’s will then take this money and re-engineer society to match our vision of the world.

We will socialize medicine. We will socialize your financial system and next we will socialize the final means of production, energy production. We will control every facet of your life. We have learned that people cannot be controlled unless we control medical care, energy and finance.

As we eventually control all the means of production we will be able to rationalize that you must follow our rules because your actions “effect the rest of us”. More importantly we will have the power to enforce our beliefs upon you. You will be forced to live the way we want you to live and where we want you to live because if you don’t it will “effect the rest of us”.

Just think how better the world will be when we can ration what medical care you get, what energy you get, what money you get based upon how conformant you are to our beliefs. You’ve had your chance at so called freedom and we are not pleased with what you’ve done with it. Now we are going to take it away from you and give those decisions to people that agree with us.

We are doing it for the good of our vision of society and if you don’t like, tough.

By: Johnathan Dougher

Johnathan Dougher — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 13:06:58 +0000

Solar, Wind and various alternative energy sources are more expensive. Period. Environmentalists have been saying for 40 years that the big discovery is right around the corner and after all these years we are no closer. Sure there have been many advances in making alternative energy cheaper and at the same time there have been even more advances in conventional fuels to make them cheaper and progressively more cleaner. Alternative energy sources simply have not gained any relative ground.

The increased use of Solar and Wind based energy drives up energy costs. The higher the energy costs in the U.S. the more jobs move overseas to places with cheaper energy like China and India. These countries doesn’t have any environment regulation of any consequence. So business will continue to move (as they have already been doing now for 15 years or so) to places with less regulation and do more harm to the world as a whole.

Don’t blame Shell. They are not being paid to be environmentalists and they are not being paid to solve the world’s problems, whether they are imagined problems or not. They are being paid by stock holders to make money. If wind and solar were so profitable the author of the original article would have already put up hundreds of wind and solar farms and be the world riches person. It hasn’t been done because it’s not economical do so without massive tax payer subsidies.

By: Cam

Cam — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 12:47:58 +0000

Much of the emphasis on cleaner alternatives is focused on direct replacements of energy requirements from oil to some other source. But with present technology the energy we can produce isn’t a direct comparison. Just look at the advent of electric vehicles, a commuter car has very limited range and certainly is not capable of moving goods and services across great expanses. Electric trains could but then this limits to track locations. Society has yet to develop an energy source that is as powerful as fossil fuels. The other facet of this, is that moving to a more green society places a large part of the equation on living in cities, but agriculture and food sources do not work all that well in cities. So this lends it’s self to veganism, which in turn clusters the populations in localized areas. Some have speculated that the entire principal behind the green movement is centered around control. “Who funds all the green peace rallies?” Last I say it was the socialist world party

By: fogbows

fogbows — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 09:28:35 +0000

goood !!!!!!

By: Tim B

Tim B — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 07:39:14 +0000

These are not “clean” energy systems but rather cleaner energy systems. Solar(pv) is not very clean at all, having a far larger carbon footprint than nuclear.

By: Jason Montgomery

Jason Montgomery — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 20:35:52 +0000

Looks like reality is catching up with Shell. With oil coming down in price, a lot of these alternative energy sources just don’t make sense economically.