America (finally!) begins to embrace alternative energy

The Christian Science Monitor
from the January 24, 2007 edition

America (finally!) begins to embrace alternative energy
The US needs bipartisan cooperation on climate-change legislation.
By John Hughes

PROVO, UTAH - Well hallelujah!

Are we Americans at last awakening to the probability that unless we change our ways, at some uncertain time in the future, there will be an energy crisis?

Are we beginning to accept the evidence that some form of global warming is under way and it is the result of our own profligacy?

Are our politicians ready to take some of the politically hazardous steps toward solutions that may impact the pockets of average citizens?

There are signs that in the United States the whole problem of reliance on oil to fuel our cars and other needs, and the consequences of polluting the air with the residue, is beginning to stimulate at least serious discussion, and possibly action.
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