The current political climate in which anyone opposing these flawed solutions is being decried as an obstructionist and “climate change denier” points out how degraded our political climate has become………. The questions being debated are not questions of climate science about whether or not to constrain carbon emissions, but rather policy questions of how to effectively and efficiently constrain carbon emissions.
“The average fuel efficiency of the US vehicle fleet has risen by just 3 miles per gallon since the days of the Ford Model T, and has barely shifted at all since 1991.”
The massive fraud being perpetrated in Waxman Markey will do exactly what Williams and Zabel suggest – it will set back any real solution by at least a decade.
Longtime NESEA member Alteris Renewables partners with SunRun to install SunRun’s residential “Solar as a Service” in MA. This game-changing service enables homeowners to go solar for as little as $1000 down and to reduce electricity bills. The landmark program achieved great coverage in the Sunday Boston Globe, “Sun for Rent” – the paper’s most emailed article for the day.
White House Budget Director Peter Orszag was even more clear in his March testimony to Congress: “If you didn’t auction the permit, it would represent the largest corporate welfare program that has ever been enacted in the history of the United States”.
