OK, odds are that President-Elect Obama is not going to personally read it, but I just submitted an email (on guess what topic?), and it does feel good.
The gist of mine - that within 6 years the problems resulting from global warming and peak oil are going to make our current financial 'crisis' seem like child's play. Because of the tremendous inertia of global warming and the rate at which world oil demand is increasing we need to act now. But we're not. As stated in past entries the analogy is this:
we're on the Titanic, we see the iceberg, and our hand is still holding the throttle wide-open.
The best solution: a phased-in, federal tax shift from income to non-renewable energy. Let's create the economic conditions so that (the much talked about) conservation and a stimulus to the renewable energy industry actually occur.
