Congratulations to Jane Clark whose letter to the editor was published in The Des Moines Sunday Register on July 10.

Energy bill takes us backward

The Register's June 19 editorial ("Congress Trots Out Tax Favors as Energy Policy") exposed the backward thinking guiding this year's proposed energy bill. Despite existing technology that could eliminate our dependence on foreign oil while saving consumers money and creating jobs, this energy bill would keep America on the wrong path toward an unstable, expensive and environmentally destructive energy future.

We have the solutions today to move forward with a smarter, cheaper and safer energy policy. Energy efficiency, fuel-efficient cars, real investments in wind and solar power and polluter accountability are all pieces of the energy policy America needs. Instead of proceeding with its current energy bill, Congress should focus on these real solutions that would protect the environment, create new jobs, lower consumer energy bills and cut America's dangerous dependence on oil.
-Jane Clark,
Conservation Co-Chair,
Sierra Club, Iowa Chapter,
Des Moines.


Another letter by David Osterberg responding to an earlier editorial about placement of huge livestock operations was also published.

Read these letters and more at http://www.desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050710/OPINION04/507100324/1038<http://www.desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050710/OPINION04/507100324/1038>

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