Red Green Mountain

Here in Texas the biggest promoter of clean green energy is Green Mountain Energy. They are at every festival offering to switch your electric bills to their greener and cheaper power.

Are they greener and cheaper? Not really. They have a minor influence by encouraging more alternate sources of power. Some of these alternative sources are dirtier than coal; some like wind power are better. Their brochures often contain misleading and inaccurate price comparisons.

Primarily they are a Republican owned group associated with BP energy that saw a niche market and have aggressively promoted themselves to that market. All the while they are politically funding anti-gay, anti-progressive, and anti-environment candidates.

Just a word to some people who may want to wise up.

Boycott GreenMountain.com!

Right Turn on Green Mountain

Burning Biomass.

Green Mountain has a long history of running afoul of environmentalists. Critics say the company claims to produce renewable fuel but then provides it from less-than-clean sources. Green Mountain is nothing but a front for big oil, contends Mike Ewall, director of the Energy Justice Network in Philadelphia. "What Green Mountain is marketing as green energy," he says, "is actually a lot of the stuff that the environmental community has been fighting for years."

Red Light, Green Light

"They were making zero difference for the environment….They sell stuff that is already out there. They just repackage it,"

Update on the Green Mountain Boycott and why. Texas is actually the best state to be a Green Mountain consumer although their huge political contributions to Bush continue.

Expanded: Texas Green Mountain consumers can actually get 100% wind power electricity. Green Mountain and Enron developed a wind farm in west Texas mostly through generous tax breaks. So in Texas at least Green Mountain can be environmentally sound even if politically appalling. The extent of DeLay/Bush/GOP ties can be seen by the $2.5 million contribution of Green Mountain's founder to slam McCain's environmental record when he threatened Bush's nomination for President. Senator McCain had a better environmental record than Bush.