Clean Energy Challenge Is Here Now
10/17/2007
Paul Munnis
The Clean Energy Bill is coming up for a vote and we Americans have a lot at stake. Our future depends upon America getting onto a path of energy independence and that is good business for us.
We have a huge trade deficit wherein we are importing far more than we are exporting. The result is that oil is being bought from abroad, imported, and it’s being paid for on a national credit card of sorts thus adding to our overall deficit.
Experts who have studied alternative energy and clean energy estimate the market in America is $1 trillion dollar EVERY YEAR for alternative energy products. That does not count advances like electric and hybrid cars, and all sorts of energy savings options that we have coming online over the next ten years. This is a big job generator for America. At a time when we are exporting jobs to China and India we could use some jobs in the USA.
If a federal subsidy for alterative energy installation is legislated then the industry for solar, wind, electric, and bio-mass will grow like topsy.
Unemployed construction workers will have plenty of work installing solar panels, efficient furnaces and boilers, and upgrading nuclear reactor units to improve efficiency.
Retail Business will be selling energy products ranging from bio-mass pellets to solar panels, to efficient furnaces.
America will keep that energy money at home where it will enter our local economy and will thus touch a lot of hands as it generates new tax revenues without any tax increases and so enable more prosperity for our citizens.
We need to be demanding that our government empower clean and alternative energy sources and give it the same subsidy that we have given to other industries when we made them a priority for our nation.
Call your Congressional Representatives and tell them to put America on the quality path for self-sufficiency in energy. Use this as an opportunity to manage down the amount of carbon that we are generating and help our planet survive all at the same time.