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"Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us." (Henrik Tikkanen)
"Forget the damned motor car and build the cities for lovers and friends." (Lewis Mumford)
Let's live on the planet as if we intend to stay
If you are thinking a year ahead, plant seeds. If you are thinking 10 years ahead, plant a tree. If you are thinking 100 years ahead, educate the people.
Heroes are not giant statues framed against a red sky. They are people who say: This is my community, and it’s my responsibility to make it better. (Gov. Tom McCall)
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Jan 19, 2008: LOVESalem reaches the web, bringing a vitally needed message to Oregon's capital city: We must Oregon-ize to put the needs of people before the needs of cars. This requires that we live our environmental values -- that we LOVE (Live Our Values Environmentally) Salem -- by working to stop the Sprawl Machine.
The Sprawl Machine is a ravenous beast that feeds on green space, close-in neighborhoods, and property taxes and that excretes monstrous, ugly road projects that pollute the air, increase mortality and morbidity, promote climate change, weaken families and neighborhoods, and help weaken the social fabric and civic participation.
The Sprawl Machine works by constantly luring its prey with promises that the problems created by cars can be addressed by doing more of the same -- building more lanes, more bridges, consuming ever more money. In other words, the Sprawl Machine promises that we can keep doing the same thing over and over, while expecting a different result this time.
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2 comments:
Well, it isn't going to go to zero (probably, but then again, there is still a burning need by many Republicans to punish Solandra for something or other), but it is set to drop from 30% to 10% on January 1, 2017. THAT MAY NOT BE SO TERRIBLE given that the 30% credit has been in place for ?? 5? 10? years. In that time, the cost of solar has dropped precipitously . . . A system that was installed 5 years ago with the 30% credit may actually be more expensive than a system installed in 2017 with only the 10% credit.
Thanks for the note; you're certainly right that a system today is much less expensive than when LOVESalem HQ acquired it -- though we also enjoyed, atop the federal 30% credit, additional federal rebates AND state tax credits. These brought the net installed cost after four years to less than $1.40 per watt.
Bottom line is this:
1) No one knows what the future holds, so trying to guess what the markets and Congress and the Oregon Legislature will do is a fool's errand.
2) The main reason that solar system prices dropped was economies of scale, scale provided in response to rising demand from people who were willing to install solar because it was the right thing to do, regardless of whether the Wall St. Casino was offering better returns elsewhere.
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