PDHblog
This is a place for members of Progressive Democrats of Hawai‘i to express their thoughts
and exasperations about political happenings. The opinions and views are not necessarily
those of PDH's steering committee or membership as a whole.

The Advertiser today has a great opinion piece about how the recent power failure after the earthquake should encourage us to move more quickly toward renewable energy sources. They are right. Do we want to invest in photovoltaics (for example) or in another oil-powered generator? Perhaps HECO should add a surcharge to our electric bills that would be earmarked to go directly to further renewable investment. Yeah, people will yell about their bills increasing, but then maybe that will be incentive for them to increase conservation and/or invest in photovoltaics of their own. I would go further and enact legislation that would require any new developments to incorporate solar water heaters and energy efficient arcitecture at a minimum. We should support implementation of deep seawater air conditioning for all of downtown Honolulu.

We need solid leadership to push toward independence of fossil fuels; let’s focus the anger people have toward HECO right now to encourage alternative energies and support for conservation.