Should The U.S Have A Clean Energy Policy Or Not
- The Federal government has aggressively committed to supporting clean energy over the last few years.
- More importantly, based on early returns, this support for clean energy appears to have paid off handsomely.
- In spite of the success of these policies, many of them are about to vanish.
Experts from Brookings, Breakthough Institute and WRI released a report today with some insightful and thought-provoking conclusions. In it, they quantify the amount of government funding provided to clean energy from 2009-2014 and the rate that funding will fall off post 2014 (from $44 billion in 2009, to $16.1 billion in 2012, to $11.0 billion in 2014), and the impact that will have on clean technology industries. The report then outlines a host of policy reforms that would improve the efficiency and functioning of our clean energy policy framework. It represents a well-researched and well-intentioned attempt to start a conversation about energy policy reform that we really need to be having.
Do you think we should continue and thus have a Clean Energy Policy or should we just forget about it all together and stick with what we’ve been doing for the past 100-years -
What Do You Think…?
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