Irene can serve as our wake-up call, a reminder to look elsewhere for our energy needs: instead of pouring our money down the drain, funding oil despots overseas, our money should stay right here at home, where renewable energies can increasingly serve as an economic multiplier the likes of which Americans have never before experienced.
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