Comments on: Rep. Peter Welch on the Lasting Value of HOME STAR http://www.efficiencyfirst.org/blog/2010/03/12/create-new-jobs-and-save-the-planet/ Thu, 01 Dec 2011 16:25:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Wayne Mackey http://www.efficiencyfirst.org/blog/2010/03/12/create-new-jobs-and-save-the-planet/comment-page-1/#comment-362 Wayne Mackey Sat, 13 Mar 2010 20:01:59 +0000 http://www.efficiencyfirst.org/blog/2010/03/12/create-new-jobs-and-save-the-planet/#comment-362 If the President and Congress would reconsider the whole idea of how we all use energy in this country, perhaps they might want to consider helping small businesses achieve higher states of energy efficiency as well. They provide 80% of new job creation and such a step would help make them more competitive in more markets around the world. It would go a very long way to helping this country reduce our carbon footprint and thereby increase our standing in the world wide community. It appears, however, that what they are currently proposing is really just another cheap, knee jerk populist reaction to a far more serious global crisis. Why not lobby for a far more grandiose national program called Small Business Star, or a Platinum Star program for all of us who want to do everything we can to make the really big committments that are absolutely neccessary to do the job right...the second time around? Green retrofit every building this country ever built to make them all at least 40% or more efficient. There'd be enough work for millions of people for the next ten years at least. If the President and Congress would reconsider the whole idea of how we all use energy in this country, perhaps they might want to consider helping small businesses achieve higher states of energy efficiency as well. They provide 80% of new job creation and such a step would help make them more competitive in more markets around the world. It would go a very long way to helping this country reduce our carbon footprint and thereby increase our standing in the world wide community. It appears, however, that what they are currently proposing is really just another cheap, knee jerk populist reaction to a far more serious global crisis.

Why not lobby for a far more grandiose national program called Small Business Star, or a Platinum Star program for all of us who want to do everything we can to make the really big committments that are absolutely neccessary to do the job right…the second time around? Green retrofit every building this country ever built to make them all at least 40% or more efficient. There’d be enough work for millions of people for the next ten years at least.

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