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April 17, 2011

Your Money's Gone with the Wind (& Solar)

Mark Landsbaum, Orange County Register


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Renewable energy is all the rage. California Gov. Jerry Brown signed a law last week to encourage more of it. The law "encouraged" in the way government encourages everything: Do it or else.

Rather than produce a mere 20 percent of California's energy from renewable sources such as wind and solar by the year 2020, state utilities now are ordered to generate a third of it that way.

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