Vote on the "Idea" for Pickens Plan

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Permalink Reply by Eric Lykins on February 17, 2009 at 10:27pm

Please join President Obama at Whitehouse.gov, but better yet, Recovery.gov went live today. Prez sez:
"That's why my administration has created Recovery.gov, a new website where citizens can track every dollar spent and every job created. We'll invite you and your neighbors to weigh in with comments and questions."

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Permalink Reply by Eric Lykins on February 19, 2009 at 12:16am

Hi Pat,
I thought we were told that the citizens briefing book was going to be a collection of the top ten ideas submitted by and voted on by the people to be gathered into a physical book, which would be handed to the president. The implication seemed to be that President Obama would READ those ideas. Was it silly to think that he might address the list one by one on change.gov? Probably so, but I kind of fell for it.

I've been trying to keep up with this whole President 2.0 thing, and wondering where we're going to be in relation to it 4 years from now as Pickens Plan members and ordinary citizens? So far the promises of follow through seem a bit shallow, but I think people are getting more for their dollar than with, say, Reagan's direct mail campaign.

David Plouffe and company have definitely made it a challenge to sort through my already Pickens Plan heavy inbox along with MoveOn.org, 1Sky, Van Jones, SACE, pgpf.org, Congress.org, ETCFC, The We Campaign, and the Yahoo Group 37917. And I was kind of a news junkie before all of that. At some point this past month, I kind of overloaded and started sending most emails straight to archive after just reading the subject while playing Mafia Wars on Facebook in another tab. The computer screen at times seems like that magic puzzle 3d picture where I STILL have never seen that damned sailboat. Then I was told it was an elephant anyway and I couldn't see the whole thing by myself..:-)

I would like to know where Pat Jack thinks the world is headed, because he studies it and he cares. We hunt the elephant, and I will tell you what I have seen of it in my best post card sized narrative:

1)The internet bubble rapidly created a powerful "public" tool before it burst.
2)The housing bubble has burst, but there are a lot less broken windows in my neighborhood.
3)The next bubble will be a tandem boom of energy and food. We will be left with a relatively affordable and stable domestic supply of both.
3a)...or we could artificially grow our nation's way out of debt via inflation.
4)"We" could sell a lot of new energy infrastructure to "the public" with the promise of tying this infrastructure to the production of food in new places, from solar panels on your rooftop garden to the SW U.S. where water will be pumped to new desert towns where sun farmers send back electricity.

By the time this bubble of rapid growth is due for a correction we have figured out cost effective desalinization and the kids are plugging into the hydrogen economy and traveling again and laughing at the old people with 20 year old facebook accounts... or we annex Canada, cede the South to Mexico and watch as China grinds half its population into the massacre of every last Russian for their water.

BTW, here is the link for the top ten ideas in the Citizen's briefing book

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Permalink Reply by Eric Lykins on February 23, 2009 at 1:28am

Has anyone done biodiesel feasibility research on "grass?"

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Permalink Reply by sammy wight on March 10, 2009 at 1:35am

I wanted to believe that Mr. Pickens' ideas were good ones, but since the election is over, it doesn't seem that any of his ideas have been implemented, in fact, they have been ignored, and Obama and The Democratic Congress are laughing at T. Boone to his face over all this. Yes, great ideas, but no power to put them into reality. These ideas will be like all the other great ideas through recent history, that just get pushed aside and forgotten about, because the Political machine of Power, Greed, and Money will do what they want, and feed their own pockets with profits, and to hell with Americans! I would like to believe that Mr. Pickens could make a difference, but it is not going to happen in this lifetime. How many months have gone by and something has been done to change energy wants and needs? 6 months or more? Just spinning our wheels with all this. Prime example is how Obama and Pelosi/Reid ignore doing the right things, and choose destructive plans that are ruining our existence in America. I believe we are going to have to fight back harder, get in their faces, and make them make changes they should have from the start.

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Permalink Reply by Ken on April 22, 2009 at 9:26pm

"Employment in the wind industry rose 70 percent from a year ago to 85,000, the trade association said."
Above is a clip from the story.
To contact the reporters on this story: Christopher Martin in New York at cmartin11@bloomberg.net; Jim Polson in New York at jpolson@bloomberg.net.
American Wind Energy Association, via Bloomberg, April 12, 2009
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IMPORTANT NOTE: Americans will support any plan that provides IMMEDIATE employment opportunities for American citizens. If we do not talk and deliver on the employment objective you can totally hang up the plan.
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Permalink Reply by Mark McLean on March 11, 2009 at 3:09am

The Citizen's Briefing Book is closed and no longer available for use.

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Permalink Reply by Eric Lykins on May 25, 2009 at 2:03pm

The following idea was submitted by arsather at this week's (May 21-28) Open Government Brainstorming Session announced at WhiteHouse.gov.
Small Business/Residential Energy Efficiency
I believe that a combination of tax credits, rebates, low interest start up loans and federal subsidies, and an effort to encourage state and local compliance and cooperation should be used to help small, independent businesses with the goal of improving residential home energy efficiency.

Helping residences get up to date weatherization, improve the efficiency of the appliances, perhaps adding solar panels and/or other alternative, sustainable energy sources will help the homeowners reduce their yearly energy costs, help the contractors provide employment, help the manufacturers by creating a demand.

Tax credits or rebates should be made available for residential alternative energy installations, even when the new installation won't pay for itself in the short run. Every kilowatt hour not provided by the existing grid helps our country break its dependence on foreign oil, as does every house that improves its weatherization, appliance efficiency, etc.
Why Is This Idea Important?
1) Helps average people update their homes, saving money and adding value. 2) Helps small contractors who are hurting in the housing slump - enough demand will even encourage employment of more workers. 3) Helps retail and wholesale building suppliers who are hurting in current slump. 4) Encourages manufacturers of solar panels and other alternative energy devices to step up their factory runs. 5) Will help energy efficiency testing and certification companies by encouraging demand.
Idea # 374Public-Private Partnerships, energy, home owners, alternate energy

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