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For Immediate
Release
9/24/07
Contact:
Liz Ferry
(215) 368-1500
 Sen. Wonderling
Senator Wonderling Says Free Market Must Drive
Energy Policy
Proposes legislation to
stimulate energy efficient technologies and job training for new energy
industries
Pennsylvania Senator Rob Wonderling (R-24th) applauded the efforts of the
Administration and the General Assembly to address Pennsylvania’s long-term
energy policy and urged the Special Session on Energy to consider measures that
encourage free market entrepreneurship.
“Pennsylvania has the opportunity to lead the nation in energy development.
During the Special Session on Energy, we must examine ways to promote new
technologies and encourage conservation that does not impose enormous debt on
future generations,” said Senator Wonderling.
This fall, Senator Wonderling will be introducing legislation to encourage
the development of alternative energies and the use of energy efficient
technologies. Specifically, the legislation calls for job training tax credits
for new energy industries and uses funding for energy efficiency measures
dealing with county and municipal governments.
“I believe government should establish, through investment and legislation,
ways to stimulate new alternative energy research and development in the private
sector as well as create incentives that promote promising technologies to
commercialization,” said Senator Wonderling.
To help further promote clean air, Senator Wonderling will also introduce
legislation mandating that all state-owned diesel vehicles use Pennsylvania
produced biodiesel.
“As a public official, I believe it is my Constitutional duty to do all I can
to protect the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the land on which we
live. Requiring Pennsylvania’s fleet of diesel trucks to use cleaner burning
biodiesel is good for the environment and it’s good for Pennsylvania’s farmers,”
said Senator Wonderling.
The Pennsylvania Special Session on Energy began September 17, 2007.
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