How About A Pickens/Gore/MoveOn Alliance?
I've posted this elsewhere, too. But I think it's worth repeating. Earlier today, I received an email from the folks at MoveOn.org calling attention to Al Gore's vision for America to produce "100 percent of our electricity from renewable energy and truly clean carbon-free sources within 10 years."
Gore, like T. Boone Pickens, points to our disproportionate dependence on carbon-based fuels as the common thread linking our economic, environmental and national security crises. He notes that "enough wind power blows through the Midwest corridor every day to...meet 100 percent of US electricity demand," and also emphasizes the value of harnessing energy in our solar corridor.
It would seem that Pickens and Gore have a common position on energy. And it's a position that isn't gaining enough traction in the media. MoveOn lamented that Gore's speech was mostly ignored and pleaded with members to help spread the word.
I cannot help but think: Why not work together?
Both camps have interests that are fundamentally the same. Pickens and Gore want an energy policy that achieves a significant reduction in our reliance on foreign oil while moving us solidly in the direction of clean and renewable power. If this is to become something of a national mission, it would certainly help for the Pickens Plan to have wide-ranging bipartisan support. What better way to establish this than an alliance with Al Gore and MoveOn?
Moreover, there's the additional benefit of gaining access to MoveOn's substantial mailing list.
Just a thought.
Gore, like T. Boone Pickens, points to our disproportionate dependence on carbon-based fuels as the common thread linking our economic, environmental and national security crises. He notes that "enough wind power blows through the Midwest corridor every day to...meet 100 percent of US electricity demand," and also emphasizes the value of harnessing energy in our solar corridor.
It would seem that Pickens and Gore have a common position on energy. And it's a position that isn't gaining enough traction in the media. MoveOn lamented that Gore's speech was mostly ignored and pleaded with members to help spread the word.
I cannot help but think: Why not work together?
Both camps have interests that are fundamentally the same. Pickens and Gore want an energy policy that achieves a significant reduction in our reliance on foreign oil while moving us solidly in the direction of clean and renewable power. If this is to become something of a national mission, it would certainly help for the Pickens Plan to have wide-ranging bipartisan support. What better way to establish this than an alliance with Al Gore and MoveOn?
Moreover, there's the additional benefit of gaining access to MoveOn's substantial mailing list.
Just a thought.
Tags: Activism, Alliances, Bipartisan, Pickens, Plan
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Permalink Reply by George Anderson on -
Leon,
Any and all support from some "big guns" like Al Gore would make sense, but how this could be worked out is another thing altogether. Mr. Pickens would have to give his "blessings" on this "merger". These two men together just maybe could get the Government to move faster than the current snails pace of the last 30 years. The clock is ticking, and there is not much time left on the clock.
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Permalink Reply by Leon D'Souza on -
George,
I am entirely in agreement. Most of the naysayers here suggest this effort is achievable without bipartisan approval. To advance that supposition is terribly naïve. And despite his public utterances, I am quite sure Boone Pickens understands this too. The trouble seems to be convincing a very polarized group of supporters to go along.
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Permalink Reply by Leon D'Souza on
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William,
Your position is counterproductive. According to the Energy Information Administration's 2005 estimates, some 86 percent of the world's energy production needs were met by burning fossil fuels. That rate of consumption is simply unsustainable.
We need to assume a leadership role in moving the world away from its disproportionate reliance on carbon-based non-renewables. And the way to do that is to devise an energy policy that is demonstrably sound. If that includes rewarding private enterprise solutions with appropriate performance-based incentives, so be it. Any policy effort that encourages innovation deserves our wholehearted support.
Knee-jerk suspicion will get us nowhere.
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Permalink Reply by Daryl Oster on -
I do not mind people spending their own money on research having a very low probability of success, and are totally unproven (like schemes for mitigating so called AGW). Just do not demand that tax dollars be wasted on it. Far better to do something like ETT that uses processes already highly proven in nature and industry. Transportation dependency is the main issue -- and transportation depends on oil production. The PickensPlan to transition vehicles to natural gas is a great start toward 100% energy independence. ETT implementation will accelerate reaching the goal faster than any alternative fuel scheme. Evacuated Tube Transport (ETT)™ is patented transportation technology that can accomplish 50 times more transportation per kWh than electric cars or trains, it is cleaner, lower cost, safer, faster, and electric. See www.et3.com for more info, or contact Daryl Oster at et3[at symbol]et3[dot symbol]com , *352*257*1310* Crystal River FL 34423-1423
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Permalink Reply by Drew Casella on -
Gore is not a good idea. You immediately lose half the country if he is involved and three quarters of the country if Move On is involved. You need to stay away from a liberal political alliance. This is not a liberal only initiative. It is an American initiative!
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Permalink Reply by Darlena Frick on -
Drew,
I agree with you, we have to put what is best for our country and the people in it first. Anyone who has read any of my posts knows that I am very conservative but I do not put the Republican Party before my country. We have to be Americans first…. I have children and grandchildren and I want them to live in the same free country that I have had the privilege of living in. As for the box, throw out the Democratic Box and the Republican Box and let’s be Americans first.
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Permalink Reply by Daryl Oster on
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Darlena,
I fully agree, partisan politics has polarized this nation to the point of neurosis and paralysis.
I will NEVER belong to a political party again -- Ds and Rs at best represent 49 to 50 percent of Americans.
Unless we STOP THE PARTYING we will keep on getting more of the same -- sawed in half!
We must focus on the issues important to at least 80% of the population as stop bickering about the 50-50 issues that have no real importance.
If i were elected, i would promise to do one thing, and one thing only -- VETO EVERY BILL!! This would ensure that ANY and ALL measures MUST have bipartisan support to be instituted. Such a president doing this would be the greatest president in history -- by doing almost nothing -- what does that say about the value of national "leadership"?
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Permalink Reply by Leon D'Souza on
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Darlena,
It's just a little duplicitous to endorse Drew, who dismisses Gore (and with him, those who might support the former vice president's positions), while issuing a call for a kind of all-embracing Americanism. Gore and his supporters are American, too.
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Permalink Reply by Steve Peters on -
Although I don't like Gore, but I applaud him for inventing the internet... But he should make the move to Pickens, not vice versa.
MoveOn is Not bi-partisan and never will be, and it should keep it's filthy paws out of this.
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Permalink Reply by James Ward on -
Please keep Al Gore out of this. He is merely in it to make money. He does nothing to conserve unless you want to hook a generator up to his jaw bones.
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Permalink Reply by Dennis G. Scharp on -
You are so right Jim. The secular progressive group of Moveon.Org and Mr. pompas Gore have hidden agendas that I do not to be even remotely connected with.
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Permalink Reply by Dennis G. Scharp on
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If we get aligned with the likes of Moveon.org or Mr. Gore I will be forced to sever my association with the Pickensplan.com.
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