Drill for oil on some of America's most pristine wilderness areas, including the Artic Wildlife Refuge, while greater energy savings could be achieved by increasing automobile miles per gallon standards using existing technology. Increase power production from coal plants that cause global warming and other air pollution and promote nuclear power even though there is no safe way to deal with the resulting radioactive waste. God's call to environmental stewardship doesn't mean radical sacrifices of personal comfort. This proposal offers no relief to consumers who are living with rising prices and rolling blackouts right now. Sensible Solutions for an Clean and Affordable Energy Future US PIRG's Texas office 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.
Wind energy has much untapped potential.
Energy efficiency could save U.S. consumers 180,000 MW of power at far less cost than building new power plants- or three times as much power as Texans use. They still haven't sited a waste facility. Not one state has sited a low level waste facility- and if a proposal pending in the Texas House passes, we may well become the nations nuclear dumping ground. The Coalition 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.