I don’t claim to understand how things work in Washington, but this one is pretty much a no-brainer. By not extending tax credits for renewable energy, our elected leaders are ignoring the desires of up to 90% of Americans who wish to get the renewable energy industry launched.
Pelosi and Reid are just about to do the stupidest thing imaginable: pull the rug out from underneath the blossoming renewable energy economy at the time when we need it most.
(Start reaching for your phone…)
Just as every single magazine in the country is giving the energy crisis more press than Paris Hilton, and just as renewable energy is becoming the entrepreneurial equivalent of the internet revolution and just as the news about climate change is getting weirder and scarier every time we open the freakin’ paper, our crazy-assed Democratic leaders are completely dropping the ball, and you gotta call Capitol Hill right now and tell them to get their head’s straight fast.
As Adam Browning of Vote Solar put it “Thursday morning, Senator Reid and Speaker Pelosi decided to drop the renewable energy standard out of the energy bill and drop the tax title. No tax title means no extension of the investment tax credit for solar, and no extention of the production tax credit for wind. Let’s see…nothing for solar, plus nothing for wind, hmmm, add no renewable energy standard, carry the zero…yep, that adds up to precisely nothing for renewable energy.
Got that? Congressional leadership is moving an energy bill with nothing in it for renewable energy. Dropping the biggest pro-solar provision this country has ever seen, just when the industry is gaining momentum and making an impact.”
Pelosi’s offices number is 202- 225-4965
Reid’s office’s number is 202-224-3542
Read more at Huffingtonpost.com
See also: Energy Bill 2007 Could Give Renewables the Green Light — or a Lump of Coal (Energy Priorities)
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