CrankyGeeksFan says:

Energy needs to be generated as close to where it is going to be used. I think that the era of large, central generation plants – whether that’s coal, wind, nuclear, etc. – is slowly ending.

One thing about moving away from gasoline is the issue of taxation, $.18 per gallon, to the National Highway Fund, for road maintenance. The government will want to tax electricity somehow. I’ve always wondered how that will work out on electric bills?

deowll says:

#29 Why does an energy grid require federal land? Other than the right to cross an occasional plot of ground it never has in the past.

Hmeyers says:

If his plan for alternative energy is so efficient, he should fund it himself (and horde the profits if he’s right … and he might not be right).