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...Social Democratic Party member, Scheer, 58, began as a disarmament expert and became convinced of the need for nonfossil alternatives to potentially dangerous nuclear energy. In 1991 he sponsored legislation opening Germany's grid to renewable-energy producers and setting a generous fixed price for their power. Today a third of the earth's wind energy is produced on German soil. In 2000 another Scheer-sponsored law increased the price for solar energy and launched the installation of 100,000 solar panels on homes and businesses. In June he orchestrated a law eliminating taxes on bio-fuels, such as gasoline...
...taxes with other strategies is the only way to meet the goal. "There's no doubt it can be done," says Alden Meyer, a climate-change expert at the Union of Concerned Scientists. Meyer suggests a host of | conservation measures, including tougher auto-fuel-economy standards, increased use of nonfossil energy sources (such as solar and wind power) and investment in energy-efficient technologies. This recalls a theme that Gore struck again and again on the campaign trail and that Clinton echoed in his speech last week: sound environmental policies can be good business. "These investments ((in energy-efficient technologies...
...most productive nonnuclear, nonfossil power source in the long run may be not some new way of generating more electricity but new ways of using less. Instead of spending money to build plants, utilities sometimes find it more economical to offer customers financial incentives to use power more efficiently. In New York City, for example, Consolidated Edison spent more than $8 million in January and February on rebates to customers who traded in their energy-hogging air conditioners and lighting fixtures for efficient new models. Notes John Dillon, a Con Ed assistant vice president: "The cleanest megawatt is the megawatt...
...reason to push for fuel conservation. Scientists are increasingly ) convinced that the burning of fossil fuels is contributing to the greenhouse effect, a potentially dangerous warming of the globe caused by carbon dioxide and other exhaust gases. Unless the growth of fuel consumption is slowed dramatically or nonfossil energy sources, including solar and nuclear, are expanded rapidly, the world could face climatic changes leading to widespread flooding and famine...
Thus the time has come to get tough about conservation. The first step should be an immediate increase in the federal gasoline tax. Each 1 cents rise would discourage unnecessary driving and add $1 billion to the U.S. Treasury, part of which could in turn be used to develop nonfossil energy sources. The second obvious step is to raise the auto industry's fuel-economy requirements. That, says Ohio Senator Howard Metzenbaum, "could save twice the amount of oil in the Prince William Sound spill every...