"Published: Thursday, August 14, 2008 at 5:59 p.m.
Last Modified: Thursday, August 14, 2008 at 5:59 p.m.
It is quite apparent that our present administration could care less about the environment and the future of our children and grandchildren! Their only concern is how many billions they can make before our whole economy collapses! The only things standing between Washington & oil rigs off our pristine coasts & throughout our wildlife preserves are groups like Union of Concerned Scientists & Environmental Defense Fund.
Politicians in Washington can’t agree on a single energy policy that includes wind & solar as a major source of clean, renewable energy! They can’t even agree on tax credits to bolster up these emerging industries! Germany (a fraction of our size with a fraction of the sunlight) has far outstripped us in solar installations because they instituted tax credits for 7 years instead of just 2! There are billions of dollars waiting to be put into this industry to create thousands of jobs our economy desperately needs!
Most Americans don’t realize that oil & gas industries are heavily supported by tax credits, which we pay for & they don’t want wind & solar to get any support.
Amory Lovins, of the Rocky Mountain Institute (http://rmi.org/) in an NPR interview said that we have all the technology we need to be completely off oil! Al Gore (http://www.algore.com/) is not the only well known person who believes we can get off oil! Washington needs to get out of bed with the petroleum industry & put it’s citizens first for a change.
Nathan Bales"
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