Whoa, more change, in (somewhat) surprising places. Nice! And for some of the right reasons... including buying solar parts built in the U.S....
"...Despite the scale of these efforts, Lynch does not disagree with environmentalists who call these recycling measures low-hanging fruit. So he has supported other projects like the installation last year of 40,000 solar panels over 25 acres at Pocono Raceway in Long Pond, Pa. The track operator, which spent about $15 million to build the three-megawatt solar farm, now saves about $500,000 a year in energy costs and has produced electricity equal to 324,000 gallons of gasoline.
We gained a lot of fans because of it,” said Brandon Igdalsky, the raceway’s president. “Our generation is trying to clean up the things that our grandparents and great-grandparents did.”
Igdalsky said that he paid more for his solar power system because he bought parts made in the United States. Indeed, many businesses at Nascar, perhaps playing to the sports’ fans, which skew toward the South and the Midwest, view their green initiatives almost as a patriotic duty. Generating electricity from the sun is not just about saving money, but also a way to wean the country off imported oil...."
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