April 30, 2008 5:57PM
Mr. Alternative Energy
By Alexis Glick
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Do you want solutions to the energy crisis in this country? Listen to former New York Governor George Pataki.
This morning on Money for Breakfast the former governor laid out his plan for fixing the energy crisis in this country. He spoke very passionately about wind and solar power. He discussed the need for more refineries in the U.S. and the creation of nuclear power plants. He was as animated and energized as I’ve ever seen him. We spoke for ten minutes after we completed the interview. I have never seen him speak more enthusiastically about any other topic. I did not want him to leave. He was an expert on the alternative energy universe and how to create tax incentives to increase the roadmap and infrastructure in this country to take advantage of things like coal, wind and solar power.
This isn’t the first time he has passionately fought for alternative fuels or green initiatives. While governor of New York, he was at the forefront of renewable energy and climate change. He lead the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) which was the FIRST carbon cap and trade program in the United States. He protected over one million acres of open land, implemented the nation’s first green building tax credit and developed programs to produce and develop more alternative fuels. His work and dedication to this issue have been documented in many well known publications. He also happens to be a highly regarded member of the task force addressing climate change on the Council on Foreign Relations. A former commissioner of the New York Department of Environmental Conservation during the Pataki administration said, “Pataki made renewable energy, alternative energy and climate change a central part of our administration - frankly, well before it was an “Inconvenient Truth.”
During the interview I jokingly said, “If McCain gets elected, I think you should be the secretary of energy.” He laughed. Said he’s done with the public sector and that he’s having too much fun in the private sector.
Frankly, I wouldn’t count him out. He knows and understands the long-term problems with energy consumption and exploration and has a firm grasp on how this country can become energy independent. Whether he can accomplish it with this Congress or another one down the line will be an issue, but he has the best game plan that I’ve heard in months, if not years. Take a look.
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Ms. Glick,
As the managing general partner of Windshine Electric llc in Phoenix, the Gov. is right to have a balanced approach to energy production, other than cap and trade which is wrought with fraud. When he says he is done with public life he is fibbing, as if asked to serve a president anybody would do it.
Windshine electric isin the process of designing the next generation in wind generators, no more windmills, as ours takes wind electric production from the propeller stage to the jet engine stage, just like airplanes. We will have both commercial and residential size units as home owners should be net sellers of power and in more control, self power cell phone towers and portable units. The days of you losing your home power because a storm miles away blows down poles will come to and end.
As power companies get further restricted in both line siting and new carbon plants our generators are a problem solver. All the current 20% effective windmills will be replace with our 85% units and the amount of power produced will be significant.
Oil companies are not the bad guys as every item within arms reach of you needed oil to either produce, finish or ship, evrey one even that wood pencil. It is sad to hear politicians want to punish companies that make a small margin, yet sell lots of product. Make-up companies have higher margins and the women out there do not squak about that; or not much anyway.
As long as government does not mandate anything and encourages intellegent solutions the market place will provide more power for the consumer at a good price.
Passion is the key to anything successful and the Gov. would make a good Sec. of Energy.
It impossible to get any sense of how much an expert the former New York Governor, Mr George Pataki really is from your very brief report on your interview.
My sense of it is thought, he is “mis-under informed” on all the research and promising alternative and green energy