from the sun, the solar panels or if you or they or anybody finds a way to use less power, then they are selling less power and they make less money. and so florida right at the request of the utilities right before thanksgiving very quietly just decided to stop conserving energy as a state policy. they are no longer even going to try to do that, and they ve decided to unplug from the sun in the sunshine state. it s amazing. it s interesting here in the politics. one of the groups that protested against those groups in florida before florida made these changes was a group called the green tea coalition. yes, they are in fact, a tea party group that s super right wing. but they like the idea of people making their own electricity and people having choices an how to make their own electric hit. getting rid of solar power, even fining people forution the sun, trying to make everybody use fossil fuel power and as much of
politics. a group called the green tea coalition. yes, they are, in fact,a tea party group that is super-right wing. making their own electricity and people having choices on how to make their own electricity. even finding people for using the sun, trying to make everybody use fossil fuel power from power plants and as much of it as possible, this is a thing now in republican politics. it s not getting a lot of attention. they have just done this in arizona this past year. they are gearing up again to try to do it in kansas and now they have done it in the biggest state. now they have done it in florida. in the sunshine state they have decided they are against the sun. i don t know what captain citrus politics are, but i can expect he s going to be pretty mad.
it s amazing. it east sbre it s interesting here in the politics. a group called the green tea coalition. yes, they are, in fact,a tea party group that is super-right wing. and they like the idea of people making their own electricity and people having choices on how to make their own electricity. even finding people for using the sun, trying to make everybody use fossil fuel power from power plants and as much of it as possible, this is a thing now in republican politics. it s not getting a lot of attention. they have just done this in arizona this past year. they are gearing up again to try to do it in kansas and now they have done it in the biggest state. now they have done it in florida. in the sunshine state they have decided they are against the sun.
opponents says it holds the coal industry to impossible standards. energy has long been a very divisive issue, but now it appears environmentalists and conservatives are coming together in a group called the green tea coalition. it seeks to use tea party values to advance the green energy movement. john roberts is live in atlanta. tell us more about this group. good afternoon to you. i ve got to say, one of the more unusual partnerships i have ever come across in georgia, the tea party patriots have teamed up with environmentalists from the sierra club to promote, of all things, solar power. the tea party says it s a property rights and free market issue. they re pushing georgia to change a law that prohibits third party solar companies from selling direct directly to consumers. they say consumers deserve freedom of choice and solar represents true energy independence from the electricity monopolyies in jazz, and while the tea party and
the country thinking about this marriage. the sierra club at least here in georgia is thrilled about it anything that will help advance their cause for alternative energy causes. the sierra club told me yeah they still have a lot that they disagree with the tea party on, but, when they get in the same room together behind closed doors, they leave all of that outside. you would think it would be a strange bed fellow scenario. i see no reason why conservation can t be conservative principle and likewise that open and fair markets that empower consumers and empower american workers can t be a principle of clean energy advocates like the sierra club. john: working together for common cause. as for the state s largest utility, georgia power it says that it is adding a tremendous amount of solar to its power portfolio. we have toil the majority of that was forced upon them by the public service commission. while it says it welcomes input from groups like the green tea coalition, it doe