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Tuesday Talk: Does MN have a clean energy agenda?
Fresh off of Earth Day and MN2020’s latest report, “Sensible Incentives,” consider sustainability or the lack of sustainability. When appliances wear out, we tend to replace them with the most affordable option—which isn’t necessarily the most energy efficient one. Before you know it, another 12 or more years and the cost of a missed opportunity pass by. Now, apply that to very large scale energy systems.
What are common sense steps we should be taking to improve Minnesota’s clean energy agenda? Does Minnesota have a clean energy agenda?
Comments:
April 25, 2012 at 1:12 pm
I agree Bernice. Maybe we will develop more alternative sources of energy when we restrict the polluting ones.
April 24, 2012 at 10:46 am
I’d say a moratorium on new coal and nuclear power plants should be in effect here forever no matter what the Feds do.
Increasing convenient mass transit options and denser population centers will encourage people to take the train or bus and, especially, to walk, which would reduce our use of fossil fuels, help clean the air and make us healthier.
As soon as Wisconsin has a new governor, perhaps the high-speed rail plan can be implemented in full. One result should be that some who now fly to Chicago would take the less-polluting train.
April 24, 2012 at 8:17 am
Geez Katie, if only you and other progressives would apply this same logic to fixing the fraud in SS and Medicare we might actually be able to get a handle on the national debt. Then their is our Racist WAR on drugs that is undermining entire segments of our society as well as our education and social services systems to profit public employee’s. Then there is the chemical slavery pushed by our middle class on our poorest segments of society including the children of the poor. Your fellow public employee’s solution to poverty seems to be addiction and incarceration for profit, anything to keep public employee unions in power. Absolutely no solutions in sight from progressives.
Carlos says:
April 25, 2012 at 6:11 pm
The state should make more aggresive policy that forces the energy companies to provide subsidies for people who wish to install alternative forms of energy (solar, wind, geo-thermal). When used with federal incentives, this would make it more affordable for residents to what is way too expensive now.