Yay for us!

Okay, I'll be honest. I'd like to tell you that this is a little entry that is a good example of the calm reasoning I've been talking about. But really, this is just a "yay for us!" post. You can read the whole article here but this is the part I like the best:

Seven Myths About Alternative Energy by Michael Grunwald

The biggest obstacles to efficiency are the perverse incentives that face most utilities; they make more money when they sell more power and have to build new generating plants. But in California and the Pacific Northwest, utility profits have been decoupled from electricity sales, so utilities can help customers save energy without harming shareholders. As a result, in that part of the country, per capita power use has been flat for three decades — while skyrocketing 50 percent in the rest of the United States. If utilities around the world could make money by helping their customers use less power, the U.S. Department of Energy wouldn't be releasing such scary numbers.