IREA customers oppose measures

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A majority of Intermountain Rural Electric Association customers polled have spoken against rebates, subsidies and energy taxes proposed to require power companies to fund portions of alternative energy initiatives and conservation.

Rebates offered to customers who installed solar energy systems were opposed by 65 percent of survey respondents. The taxation of carbon emissions from burning fossil fuels was opposed by 85 percent. An energy conservation bill requiring 2 percent of growth to be invested in energy conservation and a proposal requiring power companies to buy back electricity generated by consumers was opposed by 78 percent.

Prompting the survey were three pending bills and one Colorado Constitutional Amendment.

Duke Dozier, Bailey-based board member for District 2, believes the main reason for the opposition is the fear of raising energy costs, something he said he can understand in the context of the current economic outlook.
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Dozier said the heart of the debate is global warming, something he isn't convinced is caused by burning fossil fuels. He believes the warming has a lot to do with the sun.