The No. 1 crisis facing our species is global warming. This is not debatable. This is a planetary issue.
Delaware faces a dual threat in that the sea is rising around our entire state while the state itself is sinking. Flooding is not the only threat we face from global warming.
Global warming is a result of using fossil fuels. Fossil fuels also pollute our land, our drinking water and the very air we breathe. We need to get away from fossil fuels and use renewable energy sources – solar, wind, etc. For the record, nuclear energy is not safe. Nuclear energy is neither clean nor renewable. It produces highly deadly radioactive waste.
The rationalization being used to justify taxing fuel-efficient vehicles is ridiculous. It’s the last thing we should be doing. For the record, hybrid cars that only use gasoline do not require electric recharging which consumes energy.
Overdevelopment is the main stressor on our state’s Transportation Trust Fund. Housing developers should be paying for road improvements. Their developments require new and better roads.
For the record, everybody living in or traveling through Delaware is using our roads either directly or indirectly. Pretty much everything we use has to be trucked into the state.
Gasoline taxes should be used, if they are used at all, to discourage gasoline consumption. Our elected officials should be leading advocates for solar and wind energy development.
This is only debatable to those who ignore facts and refuse to do the math.
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