Pretty as a picture across the landscape
Let me get this right, natural gas prices are at near all time lows, supplies are over the top, there are ample domestic reserves, natural gas is clean energy — and we are focused on building more horrendous looking, noisy wind farms on and offshore that take up hundreds, if not thousands of acres of land.
If our goal is to reduce dependency on oil and build our stable of domestic energy resources why wouldn’t we be finding quick, creative and realistic ways to do that? For example, why not provide interest free loans (or even tax credits for middle and lower income Americans) so households can convert home heating from oil to natural gas?
That lowers their costs, is less polluting, stimulates work for many people and can be done quickly using existing established companies.
I know, home heating is only a small portion of our oil consumption, but it’s a start and makes as much sense as paying me to buy a new car or upgrade my air conditioning … and it is a long-term strategic move; something sorely lacking from our political agenda.
Conversion incentives have been used in the past, mostly by local utilities, but now is a golden opportunity to try it on a larger scale … perhaps we can even get Joe Kennedy to stop telling us about his good friends in Venezuela who provide free heating oil to Americans.
P.S. There is even a plus for our friends on the left, natural gas heating is supplied to homes via REGULATED utilities unlike heating oil.
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