Renew Our Economy with Energy Efficiency

The website that I went to was very interesting. It had many ways to introduce more efficient energy sources in order to better our economy. There is a large group of around ninety elected officials that are working to get the Texas legislature to renew Texas' leadership as the energy capitol of the world. The Director of Environment Texas, Luke Metzger, says that our economy is only being worsened by all the unstable energy prices. We have so many resources here in Texas that would allow us to be much more efficient than we are.
The new pan is labeled, "Renew Texas," and has many elements that will work together in order to help stabilize our economy and the rest of the worlds if the plan goes correctly. The parts of the plan go as follows:
To add 4000 megawatts of Solar Power by 2020
To require the reduction of utilities by 1% in 2015 and 2% by 2020
Increase efficiency standards of new homes by 15% every 3 years by improving building codes
Use low-cost loans to improve schools, universities and local government buildings
Require certain appliances to meet minimum efficiency standards
If this plan were to work the American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy says that an estimates 5 billion would be saved by consumers over the next 15 years. The University of Texas has even brought to light the fact that a major investment in solar power could create 123,000 jobs in this field by 2020. Mark Strama, Texas State Rep, said that wind power already has created more jobs and put more money back in the consumers pockets, so we should continue. There are so many supporters and no reason not to go for this. There is so much to gain in this proposition. I just hope that everyone supports it and works towards implementing this into our energy program. Even President Obama has pledged to spend 150 billion over the next ten years on clean energy. If the president believes in this plan so should we. I think it is a wonderful thing and would be great to put to action. Sure it will take a lot of money and a lot of time...but we will get there. How can we just leave the wind, sun and crops untapped when they are such an abundant source of energy that is just sitting there waiting to be used.