{"id":74,"date":"2010-09-27T19:53:17","date_gmt":"2010-09-27T23:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thisdementedlife.com\/?p=74"},"modified":"2025-06-23T16:50:35","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T20:50:35","slug":"green-energy-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thisdementedlife.com\/?p=74","title":{"rendered":"Green Energy Scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Annoyed much? You bet. For the 3rd time this MONTH another so called &#8220;Green Energy *company*&#8221; has knocked on my door selling their &#8220;clean wind energy&#8221;. Funny how the companies names are different but their white and green polo shirts are nearly identical.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisdementedlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/primalscream.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-130\" title=\"Screaming\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thisdementedlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/primalscream.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"167\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nAnyway, they want to sell me Green Energy, for only 40% more than my *dirty non-renewable energy*.\u00a0 I&#8217;m sorry, I will not participate in snake oil-greasy-guilt trip that I am using dirty energy. My first question to them(usually its my only question)<br \/>\n&#8220;How do you guarentee that I ONLY get the wind power? Are your power lines sequestered?&#8221;<br \/>\nThis is usually met with a deer-in-headlights stare at me, almost always followed by a stammered<br \/>\n\u00a0&#8220;uh no, but your helping the environment&#8230;&#8221; and I cut them off right there with<br \/>\n&#8220;If my green energy is not delivered by sequestered lines, how are you PREVENTING the **dirty non-renewable energy** from co-mingling with my very expensive, completely unreliable *green wind energy*?<br \/>\nThe second completely flummoxed stare is followed with my response of<br \/>\n&#8220;I thought so. Please go away and do not knock on my door again.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Annoyed much? You bet. For the 3rd time this MONTH another so called &#8220;Green Energy *company*&#8221; has knocked on my door selling their &#8220;clean wind energy&#8221;. Funny how the companies names are different but their white and green polo shirts are nearly identical. Anyway, they want to sell me Green Energy, for only 40% more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-too-much-info"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisdementedlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisdementedlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisdementedlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisdementedlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisdementedlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisdementedlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24588,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisdementedlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions\/24588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisdementedlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisdementedlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisdementedlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}