What is going on? Global Warming has been scientifically verified for fifteen years or more and there are a variety of ready solutions....
http://thefiresidepost.com/2007/10/29/wind-and-wild-energy-and-nature/

Um, yeah, that's because 'going green' is the same as 'going out of business', if people really start working the problem for themselves, there goes the dependency model, and the oil-peeps with their private armies and political arm-wrestling won't be far behind. YOU CAN DOOO EEEEET!

Step to the breaker box, click, click clickety click. Congratulations, you just became energy-independent. INdependence! Woohoo! No more having your paycheck siphoned off by some @#$@#$@#$ on a boat in the Bahamas. Yes!

Why should they go green, they are making record profits off of us at four bucks a gallon...

Maybe Gore can buy some more carbon credits.... HEY.. going green to save the environmen is still science fiction with as much credibility as Obama's hope or a John Kerry boat ride How about asking the Swimmer Ted to put up the windmill farms off Hyanisport . Increase nuclear power , drill for oil in Alaska ,

Anybody here old enough to remember Jimmy Carter's "Gas Guzzler" tax on inefficient vehicles? Or the "Experimental Scrubber" operations he fought to have installed (in conjuction with TVA) on several of coal-fired power plants, which, along with banning lead in motor fuel, was done to help curb "acid rain"? Probably not.

Whenever I think about what Carter MIGHT have accomplished THIRTY YEARS AGO had it not been for corporate shitheels like the ones running AEP and the oil companies ramming that idiot Raygun down our throats, I get sick to my stomach.

110VAC generation is hardly the sole purview of multinational, multimillion/billion dollar publicly traded institutions. Say it in a word, say 'enron'. Honorable mention of Dick Cheney.
Energy independence, woohoo! Utility tax, go blow it out your Glade plugin!

LOL

"But the timeline is half a decade or a decade" away.

Yeah, right: So why bother to start now? We've got plenty of time....

Chirp...chirp...chirp....

It's time to push to keep, and expand tax credits, and deductions for purchasing and installing your own power be it solar, wind, geothermal, or hydro. Every household (to the best of their ability) should be a power generator to the grid. Offer farmers in the Midwest, and elsewhere a lease on their farmland acreage to put up wind generators. The footprint of these wind generators would not be invasive, and they could still farm around the base (they do it in "old" Europe).