Look beyond old thinking to solve energy problem

From a letter to the editor of the Appleton Post Crescent:

. . . Asking "what can we do to lower the price of oil?" will return answers like "drill." This "Plan A" business-as-usual thinking ignores the certainties that our reliance on those resources underlies global warming and that oil is nonrenewable.

Plan A also implies that the United States is incapable of finding ways to be more efficient in our use of energy resources and to find cost-effective alternatives.

Somehow, Denmark and Germany can do so, but it's beyond us? How defeatist. How insulting.

How about if, instead, we ask, "What can we do to advance our country with non-polluting and renewable or perpetual energy resources?"

Plan B answers this question with a multitude of currently available options to use resources efficiently, reduce demand and employ alternatives.

Many technologies are ready now and more are coming. We could grow more world-class industries to build the efficient vehicles, turbines, building materials, etc., here rather than importing them from other countries.

We'd be a stronger nation for it.

Joy Perry,

Larsen