Two-Way Energy Grid is Part of Solution

Ronald Reagan effectively delayed solar and wind energy development by decades with his energy policies. Democrats, the scare in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania and the Chernobyl disaster in Ukraine combined to kill nuclear development over the last 40 years. Nearly everybody has taken a "wrong stance" on the energy issue at one time or another.

The major factor killing wind and solar currently, however, is the lack of a two-way energy grid, whereby individual homes and businesses could implement these technologies to provide their own energy needs and sell the excess to the public and/or private utility companies. Some states allow for it, but Missouri does not.

I'm not saying these technological implementations by consumers should be subsidized by various levels of government, but, if you consider all the federal money handed out to utility companies over the last half-century, maybe such subsidization would be commendable. It would be easy to verify if recipients had utilized the money for the technology and could potentially save millions of dollars of energy expense for the utility companies themeselves: thereby increasing their net profits.

With some of the increased profits, the utility companies could expand development of large-scale wind and solar energy production and (hopefully) bring more nuclear power facilities onto the national power grid, as well.

Solar, wind and nuclear energy production being increased would allow for natural gas (something we have plenty of in the U.S.) to be developed into more efficient and cleaner fuel for automobiles and other forms of transport. This plan would grant us nearly two decades of reduced reliance on foreign oil, while providing us with the time to develop a more eco-friendly source of fuel for transportation.