Pelosi and Reid are apparently killing the tax credits on renewable energy from the energy bill. This needs to be stopped NOW. It isn't enough that they just approved a torture supporter, we now have to stop the Democratic Congress from helping to drive solar, wind and other alternative energies away.
If this Huffington Post item is true, then everyone needs to get on the phone to Reid, Pelosi and their Congressperson ASAP.
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.
You can call Reid and Pelosi here:
Pelosi's offices number is 202- 225-4965
Reid's office's number is 202-224-3542
The full post by Tony Barlow of Huffington Post is here:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
Not only is this bad for the future viability of the planet, it's bad for jobs:
http://www.environmentalleader.com/...