POLITICAL CANDIDATES SHOULD MAKE OUR ECONOMY STRONG USING RENEWABLE ENERGY 

Eva van Loon of Wailuku hit the nail on the head when she said in a letter to the Maui News on October 4th, “One of the best peace-building activities we can engage in is developing renewable energy sources that will reduce this country’s dependence on oil.”

Maui has the perfect climate for renewable energy.  The sun shines, the wind blows and we have plenty of land to grow a biodiesel crop.    Congratulations to those who use biodiesel, solar panels and wind power on Maui.  Your choice will not cause someone to come home in a body bag.

I noticed that most of the candidates for US Representative, Governor, Lieutenant Governor, State Representative and State Senator mention “fixing” our economy in their online statements at:   http://www.state.hi.us/elections/cand/candidates.html

Sadly, only one candidate took an anti-war position.  I hope the economy fixers are thinking of fixing it by creating incentives for renewable energy to reduce our dependency on imported oil.  Otherwise, our strong economy will surely be fueled by foreign oil.

Further, we need to keep in mind the unseen foreign oil costs in each and every consumer good we purchase.  It is worth sending our kids to war to preserve the status quo as advertised on TV?  The blind consumer chant of “More, more, more!” sounds a lot like “War, war, war!”

Camille Armantrout