Our Energy, Our Future

In early June of this year, 2008, Congress is scheduled to vote on the Lieberman-Warner Climate legislation, which is projected to raise electrical power rates to $0.30/kWh – double the current rates for Californians and 5-6 times for Dixie Escalante customers – for the benefit of lowering the projected average global temperature increase by a maximum of 0.07 degrees F over the next 100 years. (Please let me know if you’d like to see the science behind those figures.) If you feel like that’s not a good investment for your hard-earned dollars, especially during this period of financial insecurity, you can make your voice be heard by joining the “Our Energy, Our Future” campaign at: https://www.ourenergy.coop/. For no charge to you and very little time, this website will send e-mails on your behalf to all of your legislators asking them to answer to us, their constituents, and explain why they think this could possibly be construed as a good idea. It’s very important that we give our elected representatives a reason to pause before they make a colossal mistake for which we’ll be paying for generations to come.

Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns.