by Sat-Jiwan Khalsa •

What's certain in life? Death and Taxes... and the costs of dirty energy going up! While gas prices have gone down due to the (temporary) economic downturn, they'll soon be up again as we keep tapping limited and dwindling resources with a staggering global demand. Conservation and efficiency are certainly the cheapest and fastest ways to extend that dwindling supply, but we'll need to seriously integrate lots of renewable energy supplies as well.

Efficiency and renewable energy incentives have been around for a few years, in their most recent form, and in general they are getting better with age. While, some components of the bailout and stimulus bills are certainly dubious, the energy incentives have multi-faceted benefits for the green jobs economy: reducing global warming emissions, creating jobs (especially ones good for retraining auto, steel and coal union workers), saving money for homeowners, reducing imported fuels and promoting energy independence!