{"id":186614,"date":"2013-12-05T22:28:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-06T03:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/12\/05\/just-when-i-think-that-the-right-wing-cannot-get-any-more-evil\/"},"modified":"2013-12-05T22:28:00","modified_gmt":"2013-12-06T03:28:00","slug":"just-when-i-think-that-the-right-wing-cannot-get-any-more-evil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/12\/05\/just-when-i-think-that-the-right-wing-cannot-get-any-more-evil\/","title":{"rendered":"Just When I Think that the Right Wing Cannot Get Any More Evil\u2026\u2026\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2013\/dec\/04\/alec-freerider-homeowners-assault-clean-energy\">pushing for legislation to fine homeowners for installing solar power<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">An alliance of corporations and conservative activists is mobilising to penalise homeowners who install their own solar panels \u2013 casting them as &#8220;freeriders&#8221; \u2013 in a sweeping new offensive against renewable energy, the Guardian has learned.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Over the coming year, the American Legislative Exchange Council (Alec) will promote legislation with goals ranging from penalising individual homeowners and weakening state clean energy regulations, to blocking the Environmental Protection Agency, which is Barack Obama&#8217;s main channel for climate action.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Details of Alec&#8217;s strategy to block clean energy development at every stage \u2013 from the individual rooftop to the White House \u2013 are revealed as the group gathers for its policy summit in Washington this week.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Great shades of Elvis.<\/p>\n<p>This level of evil and the stupidity is a complete mind f%$#.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is pushing for legislation to fine homeowners for installing solar power: An alliance of corporations and conservative activists is mobilising to penalise homeowners who install their own solar panels \u2013 casting them as &#8220;freeriders&#8221; \u2013 in a sweeping new offensive against renewable energy, the Guardian has learned.Over the coming &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1135,969,1020,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-evil","category-legislation","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186614"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}