Healing Is A Moral Thing To Do.

With 1 Million Square Miles Of The Arctic Melting Unexpectedly This Summer, These Are Warning Signs That We Have To Act And Act Now. Our Addiction To Middle Eastern Oil Obviously Has Security Implications, And We Think It's About Time To Be Generating Eastern Washington Wind Energy Instead Of Sending Our Money To The Sheikhs.

All Of The Economic Signals In The Marketplace Are Essentially Subsidizing The Use Of Dirty Fossil Fuels And Penalizing Clean Energy. There's Really Only One Entity In Society That Can Solve That Problem, And That Is Government. And The Air Is A Scarce Resource.

Air Is One We Hold In Common; It Has A Limited Carrying Capacity For Pollutants And That's Being Used Up By Those Who Pollute The Atmosphere. So We Have To Stop That Externality. We Would Never Allow A Utility To Put Their Coal Slag In A Dump Truck And Back It Up To The City Park And Dump It In Unlimited Amounts For Free. But That Is Exactly What We Do With Carbon Dioxide And Methane.

I Am Not One For Half Measures Or Half-hearted Efforts.

We Have Had A Loss In Manufacturing Base And A Loss Of Some Of Our Productive Capability That Can Be Filled With The Green-collar Jobs Of Tomorrow. But It Will Only Happen If We Recognize The Scale And Scope Of Both The Challenge And The Opportunity.