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Alternative sources of energy...why have they been skipped?

In the mid 1950s congress debated energy availability and discussed conservation...and then pushed the idea under the table for more than a decade...

In the 1960s we had an oil crisis...lines at the pumps and increasing prices from $.30 a gallon to $1.00 a gallon...and we really thought that the world was on the edge...

Today we are looking at harvesting Oil Sands in Canada...Shale Oil from the South West in the US and undersea oil world wide...

But what about alternatives?

Wind, tidal surge, solar, GeoThermal?

What have we done to promote the use of these renewable...and generally readiliy available sources? Solar in America is producing almost no registerable power...and thought we led the world in its development in the 60s...we now lag behind many other nations (England, Germany, Japan, and France to name just a few) in the implementation of this potentially sustaining source of electric power.

It is time that we reach out to our representatives and push them to use our tax dollars to promote the continued development of solar and other alternative sources of electrical power and promote the use of electric vehicles as part of the government fleet throughout our nation...reduce the use of petroleum and reduce the greenhouse gasses being delivered by them.

Next step....push the auto industry to improve milage...and reduce emmisions...NOW!!! not in decades down the road.

MoonShadow

posted by Moon Shadow @ 6:33 AM