We want change. Innovation. We want to overturn the old energy order

[txlibdem]

California Governor Arnold Scharzenegger, speaking at the United States Department of Energy's ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit in National Harbor, Md., had this to say about the old energy order:

Schwarzenegger, of course, made climate change and green energy cornerstones of his administration. But in his speech Tuesday before policymakers and politicians gathered at the ARPA-E (Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy) he offered a full-throated call to move beyond the tired climate change debate and get on with the job of building a renewable energy economy.

Echoing the themes of last year's successful campaign to crush Proposition 23, a ballot measure that would have derailed California's landmark global warming law, Schwarzenegger linked green technology to the creation of jobs, a healthier environment, and international competitiveness.

"We have about 100,000 premature deaths in the U.S. each year from petroleum-related air pollution, and we have 6.5 million annual hospital visits by people with respiratory illnesses caused by the same thing," Schwarzenegger said. "These deaths are far greater in number than the combined deaths from car accidents, drunk drivers, gang wars, suicides or Iraq and Afghanistan."

"The suffering and expense of these petro-deaths needs to be recognized," he added. "Think what it means when in the Central Valley of California one in six children use an inhaler. People need to think about that."


http://www.grist.org/article/2011-03-01-schwarzenegger-calls-for-tunisian-style-green-revolution

Give 'em hell, Arnie!