Clean Energy Progress in the Buckeye State

Nicholas Anderson — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 17:19:37 +0000

Today I was reminded just how important passing clean energy legislation is to our nation’s people. The Operation Free bus pulled into an unassuming fueling station in a town outside of Columbus. This may sound like it isn’t a big deal, and it wasn’t at first, but we discovered the station offered bio-diesel! Great news indeed! I went into the station to make some purchases and, out of curiosity, asked the attendant how much of the bio-diesel they sold. He told me quite a bit actually. He asked me about our bus and the tour, which I was more than happy to talk about, of course! He then told me about a company close by that used to manufacture parts for wind turbines, but it had been shut down after government funding had dried up. He also lamented about the high costs of keeping the lot illuminated to government standards. This news wasn’t so great, but I was able to give the attendant some reassurance. Just days prior to this conversation at a stop in our tour in Toledo I spoke to a women whose company is developing LED technology, which could save the gas station quite a bit of money on lighting costs. I also promised to take his message with me on the road and to Washington D.C. It is a promise I fully intend on keeping.

It is incidences like this that make me want to push onward even more. It is the reason I felt it important to join this bus tour and bring our message to all corners of my home, the great state of Ohio. The want for a cleaner, better tomorrow is alive in well in this state and it can be seen in many places, from the research of NASA and others at the University of Toledo to the concerned citizens of Akron who came out to see us and to make a difference anyway they could. The dedication and passion of these people certainly makes me proud to be a Buckeye.

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Clean Energy Progress in the Buckeye State