The cost of Al Gore’s renewable energy plan | The Daily Caller - Breaking News, Opinion, Research, and Entertainment

Heritage Research Fellow David Kreutzer crunched the numbers and found that to meet Al Gore’s plan, with the cheapest renewable energy source, onshore wind, a family of four’s electricity bill would be almost double than if it were supplied by all coal—up from $189 a month to $340 a month. He assured Americans that we can use wind, solar and geothermal to power America. But the price only increases. Offshore wind: $404 a month. Solar thermal: $504 a month and worst of all, solar panels: $718 a month. That’s only $8,600 per family per year to cover our earth with solar panels. These calculations use data from the U.S. Energy Information Agency and while few policymakers suggest we pursue Al Gore’s 100 percent dream, it should serve as a wake-up call that the wind and the sun aren’t free sources of energy.

American Thinker: Earth Day: An Assault on Man

Earth Day is not a celebration of this glorious planet, but instead an assault on man -- and the current energy bill is an assault on America. We must equip ourselves with a complete understanding of the facts so that we can prevent these elitist social engineers from passing this liberty-sapping piece of legislation.

American Thinker: Why I Am Enlarging My Carbon Footprint

Now, if the planet is not about to crash and burn, why turn children like Emma into eco-warriors? Why condition them to take three-minute showers and lambaste their elders?

The Left's underlying goal: to convince all of us that we don't matter. Our happiness, our cleanliness, our ease of living, our money, and our time...it's the government's business, not ours. While Marxist theory celebrates the proletarian, in actuality, people become interchangeable cogs in the collective wheel.