To the editor:

Last week, the U.S. Congress left Washington without addressing the energy crisis. They didn’t deal with gas prices. They didn’t move on solutions to climate change. Their inability to renew the clean energy tax credits means that government incentive programs to support the solar and wind industries will expire at the end of this year. Jobs will be lost as a result of their inaction.

We can do better than this. With political will and backbone, within the next 10 years the U.S. can generate 100 percent of its electricity needs from clean sources (solar, wind, biofuels). It is more realistic and less damaging than opening up protected areas for drilling, and will be more stable economically than the current $4 a gallon gas prices. The technology is already on the shelf.

William Snavely,
Lawrence