PROPOSAL 3: INCREASE RENEWABLE ENERGY
This proposal WOULD
REQUIRE UTLILITIES TO PROVIDE 25% OF THEIR ELECTRICITY FROM RENEWABLE ENERGY
SOURCES.
Once again, what is
troubling here are words like “REQUIRE” companies to do something which means
once in the constitution it becomes a constitutional mandate that cannot be
denied without extreme difficulty.
On the surface,
providing electricity from sources like wind, solar, biomass and hydropower is
desirable and we are hoping that companies will develop more efficient means of
using these sources in the near future BUT TO DEMAND their use by a certain
date is going a little too far.
Already, our
government is providing incentives for use of renewable energy sources but that
is different from demanding their use.
We are after all a
market driven economy and not a Communist centrally planned economy which
history shows never worked and that is why it collapsed.
The other question
is to ask yourselves who is benefiting if this proposal is approved.
The common sense
answer would be companies and company owners that have something to do with
natural sources of energy like companies building windmills or solar panels,
etc.
Instead of trying to
sell their technologies to energy companies, they want to make it a law that
energy companies MUST buy their energy from these companies; to me that is
unethical and anti-capitalism.
Another ploy of
special interest groups is to make our constitution compel the purchase of
their products and to me that is a grossly inappropriate way of using our
constitution.
One thing to
remember is that wind power works only when there is wind and solar power works
only when there is sunshine and so what happens when there is neither…very
important point.
Also our energy
bills will skyrocket if energy producers are mandated to switch to natural
sources.
Vote NO on this proposal because it is not in our best interest at this point in time...
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