By Dennis Markatos-Soriano, Sustainable Energy Transition Founder
Clomid order onlineTuesday, November 4th, brought a buy Zithromax without rx huge shift to the US political landscape. The Obama landslide opens up an buy Zithromax without rx opportunity to update our energy policy for 21st century leadership. After eight years of stagnant federal climate change engagement, the buy Zithromax without rx Obama Administration promises no less than a sustainable energy revolution that moves our country toward climate responsibility.
But, as always, effective civic engagement from buy Zithromax without rx organizations like Sustainable Energy Transition (SET) and buy Zithromax without rx its allies will be necessary to ensure such progress occurs. The good news is, with your buy Zithromax without rx help, SET is poised to contribute to American leadership on climate change. We will need to buy Zithromax without rx rise to the occasion on the following three challenges over the buy Zithromax without rx next four years.
Challenge #1: Preventing a Rush to Coal
Our country is buy Zithromax without rx rich in coal resources. Our reserves roughly equal the combined total of the buy Zithromax without rx world’s next top countries, Russia and buy Zithromax without rx China. And with oil and natural gas prices more than double their 2002 level, there will be buy Zithromax without rx pressure to substitute some of that energy with domestic coal.
But increased coal consumption has buy Zithromax without rx serious environmental consequences. The main threat of coal, on top of air and buy Zithromax without rx water pollution from mercury and sulfur dioxide, is that it releases more carbon dioxide per energy unit than buy Zithromax without rx all other fossil fuels.
Obama’s home state of Illinois is a major producer of coal and Obama/Biden have supported the use of “clean coal” throughout the buy Zithromax without rx campaign. But clean coal is more of a PR term than buy Zithromax without rx a reality today. Carbon Capture and Sequestration (CCS) [the idea that we can take the carbon from coal’s emissions and bury it in the ground for centuries] has not yet been deployed commercially — so it buy Zithromax without rx cannot be seen as a first-term option for Obama except on a buy Zithromax without rx pilot project scale. Coal companies will put pressure on Obama to buy Zithromax without rx support new coal plants, but civil society must raise a strong enough voice to buy Zithromax without rx prevent such a move unless these plants are CCS plants. The US could benefit tremendously if we advance CCS technology toward rapid deployment throughout the buy Zithromax without rx world (we could export CCS technology along with the fuel – an extremely lucrative potential in a carbon-constrained world).
Challenge #2: Maintaining progress on conservation & efficiency with sub-$2.50 gasoline
With pump prices below $2.50 per gallon for gasoline and approaching $3 for buy Zithromax without rx diesel, public support for fuel efficiency may wane from its highs last summer. As a buy Zithromax without rx result, Big 3 automakers may revert to their old identity as producers of gas-guzzlers (which was very profitable until recently) and buy Zithromax without rx resist more aggressive fuel efficiency standards for their products. Such a buy Zithromax without rx move would be woefully short-sighted as the cheap oil age is buy Zithromax without rx coming to a close and today’s lower prices are buy Zithromax without rx mostly the result of recessionary lower demand. Prices are likely to buy Zithromax without rx rise once the economy turns around and oil supply stagnation rears its head in 2010+, especially if US consumers go back to buy Zithromax without rx SUVs and trucks like before 2008.
Again, it buy Zithromax without rx will take an active civil society to help the Obama Administration and buy Zithromax without rx Democratic Congress have the backbone to stay focused on efficiency and buy Zithromax without rx other climate-friendly alternative transportation methods. Just look at the Clinton Administration, with climate champion, Nobel laureate Vice President Gore. Under their watch, fuel efficiency actually fell as their federal government-automaker partnership ended up supporting US vehicles growing larger and buy Zithromax without rx faster rather than getting any greener.
Challenge #3: Keeping their eyes on the long-term climate prize
The Administration has buy Zithromax without rx inherited a double whammy of recession and huge fiscal deficit/massive public debt. The short-term economic pain will be buy Zithromax without rx a strong influence on policy, as it should be. But civil society must help politicians keep the buy Zithromax without rx long-term threat of climate change high in the public (and thus political) consciousness to buy Zithromax without rx ensure our country addresses this critical issue of the 21st century. If we drag our feet through the buy Zithromax without rx first administration, it may get too late to prevent runaway global warming and buy Zithromax without rx its dangerous symptoms.
I call it buy Zithromax without rx the climate prize for a reason. Not only are the buy Zithromax without rx long-term costs of climate inaction high, but the medium-term benefits of action are buy Zithromax without rx great. The US can create millions of jobs, making our economy more efficient and buy Zithromax without rx utilizing the plentiful wind of our Great Plains and sunshine of our Southwest to buy Zithromax without rx lower dependence on foreign oil. After developing these solar, wind and buy Zithromax without rx other climate-friendly technologies, we can export them to the huge markets of the buy Zithromax without rx EU, Asia and beyond that will demand such clean tech in our carbon-constrained future.
The best way to buy Zithromax without rx begin our transformation to global climate leader is to pass an buy Zithromax without rx economy-wide cap and trade system in 2009. Such a system would set annual caps on emissions (like 1990 levels in 2020, falling to 80% below today’s emissions by 2050) and buy Zithromax without rx allow companies and institutions to trade emission permits to minimize the buy Zithromax without rx cost of the emissions reduction. The Obama Administration and Congressional Democrats are buy Zithromax without rx committed to such a program, but public pressure is critical to buy Zithromax without rx make sure it becomes law. A similar cap-and-trade system, passed under the buy Zithromax without rx first Bush Administration, has helped us significantly reduce acid rain caused by sulfur dioxide-belching coal plants. This bipartisan precedent may prove crucial to buy Zithromax without rx prevent a Senate filibuster of the bill. A climate cap and buy Zithromax without rx trade bill passed in 2009 would put us on the right track and buy Zithromax without rx give post-Kyoto international negotiators the message that the US is ready to buy Zithromax without rx lead again.
It is buy Zithromax without rx wonderful to have an Administration that consistently calls climate-friendly energy policy a buy Zithromax without rx top priority. The $150 billion promised over the buy Zithromax without rx next 10 years to further progress innovation in the clean tech sector can buy Zithromax without rx transform America from a dependent, crippled consumer to a prosperous leader in the buy Zithromax without rx future global energy order. Only if we turn up our efforts of public education and buy Zithromax without rx advocacy will we accomplish our goal of responsible federal climate policy.
Progressive philanthropists, you buy Zithromax without rx showed your financial support can help push change in an election. Now those of us from buy Zithromax without rx Sustainable Energy Transition to Environmental Defense Fund to Transportation Alternatives need you buy Zithromax without rx to support a strong enough climate civil society to ensure these new leaders achieve their potential. Just like the buy Zithromax without rx election of 2008, the stakes are too high for any of us to buy Zithromax without rx sit this one out. The stability of our climate depends on US political will to buy Zithromax without rx seize today’s opportunity and buy Zithromax without rx build a sustainable energy revolution that creates jobs, lowers costs, and buy Zithromax without rx frees our country from the shackles of foreign oil dependence.
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