To: President Donald Trump
Get off the Grid and create jobs everywhere!
President Obama, please use your bully pulpit to initiate a nationwide movement for counties and towns to invest their existing economic development funds in creating local sustainable clean energy and creating jobs in their own communities with the goal of getting off the grid.
Why is this important?
Counties and Towns all across the nation have economic development funds available for their communities. They also have sustainable energy sources such as wind, or solar, or bio-mass, or wave power, or bio-waste, etc. By using the already existing funds and the resources at hand, many jobs will be created in those locales by working towards the goal of getting off the grid. It would also be a source of income for those towns and counties as they could sell any excess power back to the grid. Cities and industries can contribute to energy production but their resources are not plentiful enough to provide all the energy they need. That is the role of large energy sources such as wind farms and solar arrays. This could be a national goal which would empower and excite people at the local level across the entire country.