Cost of going green???

i don't know if the companies are fleecing us. you mentioned cheaper renewable energy sources. where my daughters live they have gone back to using water power to produce electricity. i asked them what their bill was for one month. you better sit down: $12.00 per month. i know that it is the truth because i was born and brought up there. it's in Machusetts and before we moved to ct. our bill was around $12.00-$15.00 and we were outraged. it had been consistantly, for the 11 years that we lived there between $3.00 to $4.00. how many cities and towns are capeable of doing this right now. it was that way just around 45 or so years. that is 1 big thing to answer one big problem. but it leaves the people free to think of what else can be done. in order to go frontwards we are going to have to backwards. the generation who could tell us how, are all gone. but there are people that are so smart that they could look at what was and how it was done, and probably improve on it, not for profit but for themselves and the rest of mankind.