Victory Bonds for clean energy

Written by Michael Kramer on September 17, 2012. Posted in Resilient Living

Vicbonds Michael Kramer’s most recent GreenBiz.com column is out, and it’s a good one: Can Victory Bonds open a new front for clean energy?

Here’s the opening; click the link above to read the whole thing:

A bill just introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives would support the $7.5 billion Clean Energy Victory Bond Act. HR 6275, by California’s Bob Filner and Dennis Kucinich of Ohio, promotes the domestic development and deployment of clean energy technologies. These Series EE and I bonds, available in $25 increments, would be sold to the general public, and are reminiscent of the World War II Victory Bonds that generated more than $185 billion at the time — $2 trillion in today’s dollars.

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