One of the most common arguments against investing in renewable energy is the high initial cost involved in building the infrastructure. Many economists and investors, big and small, say this alone is a valid argument for not investing in a renewable energy infrastructure. This kind of reasoning is built on the basis of the history of dirt cheap cost of fossil fuel energy, which is quickly becoming a point of past history. Simply put, no other energy source can come close to the EROEI(energy returned on energy invested) of fossil fuel energy sources of the past, this is undeniable. And while the costs of petroleum, natural gas, and coal are on the rise even the current market increases still make them the cheapest forms of energy around. But their comes both tremendous hidden costs and very delayed costs to using fossil fuel energy sources that effect everything from our national economy to our very own personal health.

    So occasionally I like to step back a bit and make sure my philosophy is in line with long term goals. Primarily among these goals is to insure that my daughter gets the chance to live in a world that offers much the same types of opportunities and experiences that I have enjoyed. Now this primary goal requires that you, the simple reader, understand that the opportunities and experiences in my life have not been particularly special. That I have not been born to a wealthy family that was able to provide for my every want. That I have no particular disadvantages, besides a moderate colorblindness, to impede the things I may strive for. And that I have not ever been outstandingly lucky, that I have not by chance achieved anything significant (I take my wonderful, smart, loving wife as the sole exception to this).

    That this primary goal can only be achieved through the active participation of the political system to which I was luckily born, here in the United States of America. I will not pander to those who subscribe to the wholesale disenfranchisement of the people by pointing out the minority of my individual position. I am but one person, my position may only represent that small fraction of the whole population, which may be difficult to express through a populist system.

    But I shall not lose hope that I can do everything in my own personal sphere of power to achieve my goals. And I can hope higher still, that if my goals are not evidently within the comprehension and empathy of wider audience, that my labors and my voice shall show the virtue and value of what I espouse.