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Sent the following to the Mercury News today. Don't know if they
will run it, but I hope that some others run with this idea. <br>
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While Donald Trump waged a campaign to Make America Great Again, it
would appear that the effect of his president would takes us in the
opposite direction. It is clear from his campaign rhetoric as well
as his cabinet appointments that a President Trump will have a
cabinet that is overly supportive of the fossil fuel industries.
This bases the future economic growth of the United States on old,
worn out technologies. Even so, there is no way that coal will have
a resurgence without massive governmental subsidies. It is just too
expensive relative to competing technologies: natural gas, wind,
solar.<br>
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In the meantime, China has put in place a plan to invest $360
Billion in renewable energy by 2020. That is the year of the next
presidential election in the US. It is clear that China is betting
on the future while Trump would have the US clinging to the past.
Rather than making American great again, he would destroy our
competitive advantage in an increasingly technology based economy.
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"Anytime you have an opportunity to make things better and you
don't, then you are wasting your time on this Earth"
- <i>Roberto Clemente</i></div>
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