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Oli gusher shows renewable energy to be safest

Oil Spill Puts Need for Renewables in Spotlight, Energy Boom By Shannon Roxborough  June 11, 2010 The massive Gulf Coast oil spill highlights the importance of cutting the planet’s reliance on conventional energy sources and moving toward renewable energy, say proponents of clean power.”The spill itself tells us in a very clear way that the over dependence on fossil fuels is an issue which we must grapple with as a world and as a nation,” Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said on Tuesday speaking at the Capitol Hill Club to honor Ocean Week.

According to Salazar, 20% of American electricity should come from the wind by 2030 to help push the U.S. away from oil. He also announced that the U.S. government has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the governors of ten states along the eastern seaboard to create an offshore wind energy consortium.

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The point was echoed by one economic expert. “The spill has heightened the concern about our dependence on fossil fuels so that quite naturally is causing people to want us to reduce our dependence on fossil fuels. That brings us to renewables,” JB Penn, chief economist with agricultural equipment mainstay and biofuel supporter John Deere (NYSE: DE), told Reuters in a recent interview.

Oil Spill Puts Need for Renewables in Spotlight | Shannon Roxborough

June 12, 2010 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | 2 WORLD, renewable | climate change, energy efficiency, renewable energy, renewables