Hunting for solar power, on public lands.

Over on the Thinking Outside blog, they posted something that caught my eye and kind of fits into the outdoor investing world.  The solar power world that is.  I really think solar power will be a big energy source in the coming years.  I think every thing will start showing up with solar chargers.  Heck they have been on bass boats for awhile now.  And as a matter of fact ,I have an information packet from a company who was looking for dealers to sell solar powered back backs.   More info on those things later…… back to the blog post.

Remember how the enviromental nazis’ went nuts when the Bush clan wanted to drill on public lands.  Well gues what, Obama is also considering taping public lands for energy.  But wait just a minute,  hes looking for How would you like to see fields of solar panels on your next great outdoor aventure?    Well I bet it would be better then your favorite mountain being strip mined….

But what about access to this land,  sounds like they are going to block hunting access to me….. 

676,000 acres of federal publicly owned land taken from the us, the public, and given for use by privite electric companies basicly for free, then they sell us what they basicly get for free, solar energy. At almost half, 351,000 acres are located in the Mojave Desert with the remaining lands in  California, Utah,  Arizona,  Nevada, Colorado and New Mexico.

Heres a quote from the Thinking Outdoors blog quote:

Mr. Salazar, appearing in Las Vegas with Harry Reid, the Senate Majority Leader, said that 670,000 acres of lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management (an agency within the Department of the Interior) would be studied to determine whether they could support large solar power arrays.

Twenty-four tracts of land in six states — Nevada, Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico and Utah — are under review. Maps of the land will be published shortly in the Federal Register.

 

I think if they get to use public land,  then the public should get free power!

Whos with me?