Suckered by the Nonprofit

While watching Meet the Press today, I saw an ad for RePower America. The idea is to promote clean electric energy, electric cars, and the notion that they are more friendly to all people. The ad states something along the lines of "not being suckered by big oil and power companies." The commercial is avaiable on their website.

Well, nuts. Maybe they can think they won't be suckered by the "big oil companies," but how about being suckered by not just the big electric companies, but by the big political issue organizations who promote this simplistic nonsense? Beware the nonprofit.

I'm all for renewable electricity. I'd like to see the government move in this direction. However, governments have a nasty habit of not keeping tier eye on the ball. It's just not what politicians do; they watch out for themselves.

Here in Maryland, our legislature didn't mind the store concerning electricity and electrical power generation, and we ended up with a situation of having only one company who generates our power, which led to a 72% increase in prices in one year. Since then, the price has been steadily increasing. If you have an electric car and you plug it into your house, that's where you're getting your "fuel," and you're paying those inflated rates.

Kinda makes gasoline look more attractive, don't it?

A main objection to this ad, though, should be that we're not supposed to notice who really profits: the electric industry and nonprofits promoting this. Somehow, we won't be "suckered" by them. RePower America will profit mightily. And I'll bet if one looks into it, RePower has some linkage to the electric industry. Either way, it's still big industry promoting itself to not be such.

I wonder how much Cathy Zoi, the CEO of RePower, makes?

Whenever someone says they're doing you a favor, keep your eyes open in all directions. I bet they've got a hand in your pocket.