Rhode Island needs to keep prioritizing homegrown energy, including offshore wind | Commentary
The Boston Globe · Darrèll Brown ·
Offshore wind has proven it works to provide less expensive power, cleaner air, good jobs, and consistent prices, writes the Rhode Island vice president of the Conservation Law Foundation.
Despite the best efforts of the fossil fuel misinformation funded opposition, offshore wind is proving New England can produce its own energy. Energy that is not only free from soaring price spikes and climate-changing pollution, but is revitalizing our ports and creating thousands of good, clean energy jobs.
Any objective look at the energy situation in Rhode Island – and beyond – illustrates exactly why we need to stay the course and say “yes” to prioritizing more affordable, homegrown energy from wind.
The cost of propane, oil, diesel fuel and gasoline are breaking low- and middle-class family budgets, and driving up costs for practically everything, including electricity. But offshore wind has proven it works to provide less expensive power, cleaner air, high-paying jobs, and consistent prices not subject to the whims of wars of choice and petroleum company profit margins.
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