{"id":2773,"date":"2009-10-17T08:49:25","date_gmt":"2009-10-17T12:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2009\/10\/price-of-doing-nothing-could-be-high.html"},"modified":"2009-10-17T08:49:25","modified_gmt":"2009-10-17T12:49:25","slug":"price-of-doing-nothing-could-be-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2009\/10\/price-of-doing-nothing-could-be-high.html","title":{"rendered":"Price of Doing Nothing Could Be High"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.energyraters.org\/members.htm\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   src=\"http:\/\/www.energyraters.org\/_borders\/Nera4e.jpg\"><\/a>\nI&#8217;m not sure this is what the Valdosta-Lowndes County Chamber of Commerce wanted to hear, but it&#8217;s something that could benefit all of us:\n<blockquote>\nBruce Bailey, energy conservation advisor for Colquitt EMC, said, \u201cConserving energy and making things more energy efficient is much more cost effective than having to build a new power plant to supply more power, so we are recommending that as a leading public policy. If our future does include more and more conversions to renewable energy sources, it\u2019s going to be very important that we don\u2019t short-circuit our economy in the short term.\u201d\n<p>\nBailey said it\u2019s important that any policies implemented utilize proven and effective technologies, and he warned that the price for doing nothing could be high.\n<\/blockquote>\nStory by Matt Flumerfelt in the\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.valdostadailytimes.com\/archivesearch\/local_story_288001446.html\">VDT, 15 Oct 2009.<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m not sure this is what the Valdosta-Lowndes County Chamber of Commerce wanted to hear, but it&#8217;s something that could benefit all of us: Bruce Bailey, energy conservation advisor for Colquitt EMC, said, \u201cConserving energy and making things more energy efficient is much more cost effective than having to build a new power plant to [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[21,22,23],"tags":[5989,4792,512,5978,8704,8754,8701,7,3609,5990,5991,6],"class_list":["post-2773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-planning","category-politics","category-renewable-energy","tag-bruce-bailey","tag-cemc","tag-chamber-of-commerce","tag-colquitt-electric-membership-corporation","tag-economy","tag-energy-conservation","tag-georgia","tag-lowndes-county","tag-matt-flumerfelt","tag-power-plant","tag-public-policy","tag-valdosta"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p585fK-IJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}