The Bush administration is proposing the same old energy scam rather than a cleaner and smarter energy plan, said Aurilio. This proposal offers no relief to consumers who are living with rising prices and rolling blackouts right now. It rewards the polluters who have created the problems, who have invested record amounts in political campaigns, and who are reaping record-setting profits, she added. U.S. PIRG also released a policy report entitled A New Energy Future, outlining how efficiency proposals will provide cleaner, quicker and cheaper solutions to the current trend of rising prices and rolling blackouts. The group highlighted policy shifts and investments in renewable energy that would provide for a more sustainable and reliable energy future.
Wind energy has much untapped potential.
U.S. PIRG urged Congress to reject the Bush energy plan and instead focus its attention on policy measures that move the U.S. toward a smarter, cleaner energy future. It s a choice between the dirty, unsustainable and unreliable sources of energy being promoted by powerful forces in Washington, or pursuing a smarter, cleaner energy future for America, concluded Aurilio. U.S. PIRG is the national lobbying office for the state Public Interest Research Groups that are nonprofit, non-partisan consumer and environmental advocacy groups active across the country.