Furnishing EVERY home in America with Solar Panels would Cost Less than the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars combined

Furnishing EVERY home in America with Solar Panels would Cost Less than the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars combined, and would SAVE TAXPAYERS more than $162 billion per year

Wow that puts a sharp point on it. Our values and vision are really screwed up. One day (soon?) people will begin to Democratize our Democracy more, and choose to spend tax money here, on schools, roads, technology, and solar power. 'Beware the military industrial complex' Dwight Eisenhower said. 50 years after those words, that construct's self-fulfilling prophecy leave us an antiquated America. We need a modern America. I can't wait until that generation -- they know who they are -- and its time passes (our parents sadly notwithstanding, most of whom are probably not the hawks and apparatchiks that keep that system on its inertial roll). The planet is fast becoming us, not us vs. them. Divisive powers will lose their steam in the face of the majority of us, as per the 20,000 who marched in downtown LA for immigration and worker's rights on May Day yesterday. These are people of every color and religion, marching for fairness. This is the future.

Holy shi*, this stuff has got to start to get one's attention. CO2, climate warming greenhouse gas, reaches *400 parts per million* for the *first time in human history.* One wonders what they can do... http://colbyallerton.blogspot.com/2013/01/earth-is-full-so-what-can-i-do.html and zero down, rooftop solar http://content.sierraclub.org/solar/sungevity/?zip=90291&ref&e and electric cars http://www.ev-info.com/en/electric-cars-models.html and don't be a lemming, change your and our path

If 'sun soaked' Germany can install over 150mw of installed solar per week, WHY CAN'T THE U.S. DO BETTER?

"Politically entrenched interests keep that from happening."

"Because the U.S. is run by corporations. Simple." 

Yes. Thanks Spike. Public interest and involvement eventually tip over corrupted institutions. Climate, Superstorm Sandy, Keystone XL and people seeing the destruction by oil and coal and the clear desirability of clean, renewable, non-monopolizable wind and solar are bringing this tipping point. But the arthritic, old Mr. Burns-like hands desperately gripping the controls of old energy won't give up without a fight. They must modernize and transform their utilities asap, or we will overwhelm them with distributed, local clean energy. Thanks for helping with the fight. I too hope we're in time.