Action follows values. Do we value a safe, clean, renewable energy future?
Are we willing to fund the innovation and technology research in order to take the lead? We applaud these two business leaders for advocating for an increase in research dollars to accelerate the pace of innovation. Our future depends upon it.

From CNET Green Tech
General Electric CEO Jeffrey Immelt and venture capitalist John Doerr of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, published an editorial in The Washington Post Monday to warn that the U.S. is lagging China is developing clean-energy technologies.

The U.S. continues to produce innovative companies in the Internet but they argue that policies in energy, a highly regulated field, stifle innovation and U.S. competitiveness: "Our government's energy and climate policies are our principal obstacle to success," they said.

Every day we make choices that affect our future. How are our core values reflected in what we choose? One of our core values is the wise use of the resources we have been given. We see the safe, clean, renewable energy of the sun enough to power our world wasted every day.

What will we choose? What would you choose if the decision were yours?

Will it be sustainable or will it remain focused on short term profits? Will it be efficient and flexible enough to allow small-scale clean and renewable sources into the game, or wasteful and protective of business, as usual? Will our energy policy help keep America safe, or will it increase threats to our national security? Will it foster democracy or centralize authority? Will it push us to support foreign dictators, eroding our moral authority in the world and making us vulnerable to the enemies of our “friends?”

The truth is that energy policy is not primarily about energy. Energy — how we get it and how we use it — is, above all, about our values. The new energy system we’re building (through cases like the one before the ACC) will tell us, and the world, who we are as a people. In this energy and environmental crisis, we've been given an opportunity to reaffirm our best American values. We mustn't let it slip away.

Quote From Mother Jones
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http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2009/07/americas-energy-american-values