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1. 1. Promote the idea through literature and incentives in utility bills. Set the example by purchasing energy from a source that is green like wind or solar. Partner with utilities to provide customers with smart grid technology and meters so families better understand electrical usage and its costs. Enter a joint venture with other municipalities to build their own green portfolio of energy production. For instance, my town bought a stake in a nuclear power plant that results in cheap electrical rates (nuclear waste if a major long-term concern, however). The county is about to start a methane capture and generation plant at the landfill too.

   2. A reliable and economical energy supply is essential for a community. It assures stable assess to what is by far the most seminal component of productivity, electricity. Look at examples of how countries, even the US, have to import large amounts of energy resources to fuel their economies and you will find plenty of evidence where prices held them hostage. One hundred dollar oil paralyzed some segments of the global economy a few years back and Russia shut off a gas pipeline to neighboring countries during a winter because they did not approve of certain policies. Relying on someone else for energy is a hazardous situation, one that America needs to invest more time, conservation, exploration, and ingenuity to distance itself.