Vermont Launches 'Cow Power' System

odyaws writes "Central Vermont Public Service has launched Cow Power, a system by which power users can opt to buy 25, 50, or 100% of their electricity from dairy farms that run generators on methane obtained from cow manure. Cow Power costs only 4 cents/kWh more than market price, so a household like mine would only pay $5-6/month more at 100% usage. The big question now is whether Vermont-based Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream will use power generated from the manure of cows treated with Recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone."

Comments

Re:What it actually costs

[Doc Ruby]

I don't think the Iraq war was done for my benefit. What makes you think I do? I'm not confused by the price hike. Put a loser oilman in front of a tyrannical warmonger oilman in the White House, everyone pays a lot more for oil and wars.

The people who contributed money and votes to Bush/Cheney got some things they wanted: lots of killing and some rich corporations. Of course, they were promised cheap oil and safety, as well as actual (tax refund) checks in the mail, but I know that only a few fools actually believed it.

None of that reality means I have to like it.

Re:let's marginalize alternative power

[minion]

Just like it sorted out Katrina?
 
I can't wait for us to have a black president, so you damn assholes who keep blaming our government for being racist can't keep playing that card every damn time something hurts the black population.