The electric slide

Little Egg Harbor, N.J.: While reading opinions regarding switching everybody to “clean energy,” I have got to say we are not even at the starting gate of such a feat. I remember when I moved from Dallas to a newly built fully electric home in Carmel, N.Y. My first bill after living in the house for a month was $750, and that was in July of 1989. I realized that if I wanted to live comfortably in my new home, I had to turn off the thermostat in every room except for the one I was going to be staying in. The solar option was not available for me in 1989 and gas was not available in that area either, but necessity is the mother of invention, and so I found a way to make my house livable for 20 years without using the electric option. I have had solar panels on my roof for the past 11 years. I sought them out and got hundreds in my development to do the same. We do save some money but if the power goes out in the area we are also powerless. Solar is not yet perfected to the point that all can be converted to it. It is my opinion that the government is putting the cart before the horse on this.

Rose S. Wilson