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A recent report found that investing money in clean energy solutions to global warming could net more than 86,300 jobs in Pennsylvania alone and would put Pennsylvania on track to reducing our contributions to global warming.

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Is ours a lunatic society or what? We are paying more per gallon for gasoline than at anytime in history. Everybody is complaining. Fingers are pointing.

But take a drive on the interstate from York to Harrisburg or from York to Baltimore and keep your cruise control at the legal limit of 65 mph or 55mph. You will overtake very few vehicles. 90% of the traffic will fly by on your left at speeds of 70 mph or 80 mph, ignoring the fact that each 10 mph reduction in speed saves more gasoline.

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Martin Giesselbach has responded to my op-ed to say that I am wrong about storing energy from wind and solar power. The issue is that without storage, these renewable energy sources are of limited value since they are intermittent. He points to pumped storage which has been available for a long time. I'm well aware of pumped storage and its benefits. In my article I was working with a word limit and had to omit various details.

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