John Atherton

Please reject HB 219-FN. The Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) deserves bipartisan protection. Just as economists say we need a diverse financial portfolio to hedge against market volatility, we need energy diversity to hedge against energy volatility. Single source fossil fuels grow more expensive daily. Their extraction grows ever more undependable. The RPS guards against just such chaos by using the market forces to incentivize private entrepreneurs as they provide a wide variety of locally based energy sources. The RPS grows energy from many sources: geothermal energy, hydroelectric power, biomass, solar, wind, and energy derived from renewable methane gas. Unlike fossil fuel that is finite, chaotic, dangerous, and dirty, these sources provide sustainable, dependable, safe, and clean energy. Please reject HB 219-FN.