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"Peeking out from under the rock
Ξ July 31st, 2007 | → 0 Comments | ∇ Current Events |
[Currently listening to Ankle Injuries, by Fujiya & Miyagi]
Yeah, a commission crunch and starting a new job swallowed most of my time the past two months.
And now it’s time for another public appeal:
So I’m one of those people who likes the idea of being green. But we all know it’s not easy being green. (Kermit was a childhood hero)
But I don’t do much to actively research the politics of it. A quick Google search for “HR 969 clean energy” seems to indicate that numerous green groups are wanting people to click and sign petitions to support this bill:
http://pol.moveon.org/cleanenergyfuture/o.pl?&id=10885-8451686-fChAQ_&t=3
Blah blah blah clean energy better. This initiative will push to increase renewable energy from 2% of our current grid to 20% by 2020 (creating larger economies of scale and competition, thereby hopefully driving prices down, which we haven’t yet seen in 12 years of deregulation in TX… But that’s a cynical discussion for later). It’ll also supposedly create 185,000 new jobs related to high-tech industries (for wind power). These’re jobs that are specialized, and can’t easily be farmed out overseas. Indirectly, they’ll encourage people to seek education and job training in this (and other directions) that’ll hopefully improve the US job market b/c these jobs have to be filled here instead of e.g. Pakistan (not that coal power plants ship jobs to e.g. Pakistan, but they’re definitely lower-skill and -value jobs).
This is a link from a group I’m signed up with. You can sign up elsewhere if you like, or not. Folks will surely let me know if they know there’s a negative flipside to this bill. In the meantime, give it a quick think.
