http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_8789173

The slow pace in utilizing renewable fuels should provide even more incentive for Congress to act on a renewable energy tax package that has been stalled for months. Several credits, set to expire at the end of this year, need to be renewed to demonstrate the Federal government's commitment to utilizing renewable fuels…

"Renewable energy is not replacing fossil fuels as quickly as scientists forecast — leading to a serious underestimation of what still needs to be done to stabilize the world's climate, according to a new analysis.

"Enormous advances in energy technology will be needed to stabilize atmospheric carbon-dioxide concentrations at acceptable levels," said Roger Pielke Jr. of the University of Colorado at Boulder and his colleagues, writing in today's edition of Nature.

The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with former Vice President Al Gore, expected that people around the world would be using more renewable energy, reducing global dependence on the fossil fuels generating greenhouse gases.

The Denver Post; April 3, 2008

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