The Clean Energy Bill

For its investment in clean energy, the United States has a grand total of 58 gigawatts of renewable energy capacity according to the Pew report. (You’ll find different figures elsewhere.) That represents only 1.4 percent of total U.S. electricity generating capacity as of 2009. At that price per gigawatt it will only cost us about $3.8 trillion to replace our current electricity infrastructure with renewable sources. We can probably just roll this into the high-speed rail budget.