Deedra Abboud on Energy & Oil

Prioritize green energy

A: Strongly Support

Clean energy would impact economic inequality

Over the last 20 years we have spent approximately $360 billion--an amount nearly ten times our entire annual state budget--buying fossil fuels from outside the state. We have been told that there is no alternative--but that was not and it is not true. Moving to a clean energy economy would drive down the cost of living for every person, every family, every small business, and every town and city in Massachusetts. Imagine what would happen to family, business, and municipal budgets if energy prices dropped by half. Fixing our energy system would be a major tool in addressing economic inequality.

We are also putting our children, and their children, and all the children for the next thousand years in danger through our failure to confront climate change.ÿ