[SustainableTompkins] Dumb as We Wanna Be

[GayNicholson at aol.com]

The Tompkins County Planning Department is working on an Energy Plan  element 
to be added to the comprehensive plan.  They've been interviewing  various 
folks engaged in researching energy issues in our community, and will  host a 
public meeting on June 5.  We have told them to expect $10/gal gas  and probably 
$1/gal per year increase in price.  As you can imagine, this  has huge 
implications for everything else in our comprehensive plan.
 
In a message dated 4/30/2008 10:31:54 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
kjmilow at yahoo.com writes:

Gay,
       I think that the question  of how a community will sustain itself when 
oil is $ 200-400 a barrel and  gasoline $ 4-10 per gallon needs to be part of 
any planning effort. Those  plans may not be needed but there are predictions 
ot those prices in  the next 5-10 years.
 
                                                                              
                                Kevin

GayNicholson at aol.com wrote:

Given the massive failure of leadership at the federal level, what can  we do 
at the local and state level to make good energy and  jobs policy?
 





 
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Gay  Nicholson, Ph.D. 

607-533-7312 (home office)
607-279-6618  (cell)

1 Maple Avenue
Lansing, NY  14882
gaynicholson at aol.com

Sustainable Tompkins 
Program  Coordinator 
w_ww.sustainabletompkins.org_ (http://www.sustainabletompkins.org/) 

Southern Tier Energy$mart Communities
Regional  Coordinator
Cornell Cooperative Extension of Tompkins County
615 Willow  Ave., Ithaca, NY 14850
agn1 at cornell.edu




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