I have been saying “Just Vote” forever and alway felt like most just ignored me and others like me. This election proved just how much Every Vote Counts! Thanks to all of you that showed up. Regardless if it was you 1st or 101st time!

The problem is that we have been controlling the price of fossil fuels and not allowing the power of actual capitalism to reward innovation. In the past 20 years the price of oil have ranged from $127 to 18 dollars a barrel while the price of gas has stayed relatively stable. In any other industry this would be considered price fixing. It is not in our national interest to stay with resources that require price controls to keep it stable. We need energy independence and renewables will provide that. Maintaining our current system is only benefiting those who currently control those resources and many of them are bad actors.

1. Depending on the efficiency every water tower in the country could be converted.

2. we could convert all the area currently devoted to power lines and relay stations.

For every problem you can mention there is a solution that creates a better environment (pun intended) than the current layers of infrastructure that we live with right now. Pumped hydro is just one. There is also batteries, wind, geo-thermo, wave, biochemical, hydrogen and others we haven’t even conceived of yet.

But are they wrong? The cost of staying with fossil fuels has become a national security issue. Renewable energy is the key to our countries future in more ways than one.

To just name one solution, pumped hydro can be a non-battery solution to the non daylight hours. Water moved against gravity during the day to move mini-turbines at night. There are solutions. We just need to unleash our creativity.