Energy

Just read this in the EcoStiletto newsletter which in turn quoted MoveOn.org:

'And not to get all political on you or anything, but we thought we might help spread the word about Al Gore's challenge to the incoming administration to commit to producing 100 percent of our electricity from renewable energy and clean carbon-free sources within 10 years. To paraphrase: We're borrowing money from China to buy oil from the Persian Gulf while scientists say that enough solar energy falls on the surface of the earth every 40 minutes to meet 100 percent of the entire world's energy needs for a full year and enough wind power blows through the Midwest corridor every day to meet 100 percent of U.S. electricity demand. As MoveOn.org puts it, "When we send money to foreign countries to buy nearly 70 percent of the oil we use every day, they build new skyscrapers and we lose jobs. When we spend that money building solar arrays and windmills, we build competitive industries and gain jobs here at home...It is only a truly dysfunctional system that would buy into the perverse logic that the short-term answer to high gasoline prices is drilling for more oil ten years from now."'

I had no idea oil free energy was so plentiful! Did you?

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