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Comment by Mike Pickens on June 24, 2009 at 12:55pm

I am your new regional leader, please let me hear from you !

Comment by Renee Klink on April 3, 2009 at 11:16am

District members, we’re at the third and final day of the Virtual March, and today we are focusing on getting action on a bill to establish a 21st century transmission system and a National Renewable Electricity Standard (RES). As Boone points out, twenty-eight states now have an RES – which directs electric utilities to produce a set percentage of their power using alternative sources by a date certain.

Let’s make a great final push. Please use this link to contact Congress and the President again today and send a message to them about renewable energy! Thanks to all who have participated in the Virtual March this week!

Comment by Renee Klink on April 2, 2009 at 8:49am

Thanks to all of you who have taken action in the Virtual March so far! It’s Day Two, and the focus today is on oil imports -- the March 2009 numbers show we imported 65 percent of the oil we used -- so let’s contact our Members of Congress again today about reducing America’s dependency on foreign oil. You can do this by phone, of course, and we have also set up links to e-mail Congress or contact your members via Facebook and Twitter about today's issue.

When you’ve done this, please leave a note here on our group page to let other members know you’ve taken action, and tell us if you received any information or feedback from the members’ offices.

Also, if you are a business owner or part of an organization that would like to take part in the Virtual March, please let me know and we’ll recognize you as a partner on the Pickens Plan Virtual March page!

Comment by Renee Klink on April 1, 2009 at 12:59pm

The first day of the three-day Pickens Plan Virtual March on Washington is here!

Among other actions, I’m encouraging everyone to send a single e-mail today, tomorrow, and Friday. It’s a simple thing to do, but it has tremendous impact.

Click here to ask Congress and President Obama to support the NAT GAS Act of 2009.

Thank you for your support.

Comment by Jase Sayre on March 4, 2009 at 9:23pm

Sorry, I have been so busy I haven't been on the website in while. I wanted to let the group know about our states energy. The past Sunday’s Tuscaloosa Newspaper had a front page article on possible coal ash spills in two of Alabama's coal plants and at Mobile Bay. John L. Wathen, an environmental advocate, took a plan and flew over our states coal plants after the Tennessee spill. He took several pictures where it appears that coal ash is leaking out of there containment ponds into near by rivers/wetlands, and it looks like coal ash is actually being dumped into Mobile Bay. Now he didn't take water samples so we don't know if this is coal ash or not, so over the next several weeks the ADEM is suppose to do this and the EPA wants both sides to file reports.
It's sad to me that our state has allowed itself to become addicted to not only oil, but coal as well. Our state is estimated to produce 55% of its energy from coal, according to the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity. If you get your power from a coal producing companies, like Alabama Power, then you know how your bill is steadily going up. I find it amazing that as oil prices went up Mississippi’s power bills did to, but now that it has went down so did there electric bills. Alabama's have not. In fact I called them and ask about green energy and they told me the price for switch grass, the only source they offered, was the cost of coal plus more. It confused me because switch grass is grown here in Al. when our coal mostly comes from other states. So no matter if grass prices stay the same I still have to pay the price of coal.
I believe unless Eco-Alabamians stand up and push for green energy will continue to pay high energy prices for fossil fuels and continue to see our home (AL.) be polluted to death. This is the main reason I am for the Pickens Plan and any other that can free us fossil fuels.
I want to know what ya'll think. Is there a way that we can promote the Pickens Plan and green energy in our state? It is going to be hard to get our elected officials on our side. I have emailed our governor, my State/U.S. elected officials, and Alabama Power about going green and I got no where. I'm not stopping however; I want to see if ya'll have some ideas. What do ya'll think we should do?

Comment by Renee Klink on March 4, 2009 at 9:48am

Hi district members, have you signed up for the Virtual March on Washington yet? It's April 1-3. We want to continue to have an impact on how the Administration formulates American energy policy, and the Army will focus its energy during those three days on e-mails, calls and faxes to every Member of Congress.

Click here for more information about the Virtual March! And let's all make the commitment to recruit 10 other people to take part.

Comment by Renee Klink on February 4, 2009 at 11:05am

Hi all, let's keep the pressure on the Senate! While the stimulus package is not perfect, it does have good in it and will jumpstart efforts to get wind and solar projects going.

More than 30,000 members of the New Energy Army have contacted their elected officials in the last 48 hours. If you haven't done so, please take a few minutes now to contact your Senators. Use phone and/or e-mail to reach out to them on this very important issue.

Senator Sessions 202-224-4124 - Senator Shelby 202-224-5744

As Boone says, "let's give the Senators another push... to get this accomplished.... The Army and the grassroots are going to do it."

Comment by Renee Klink on January 29, 2009 at 3:33am

Hi Alabama-4 members! Please welcome Randall Haney as your group leader. We're glad to have you on board, Randall!

Comment by Renee Klink on January 27, 2009 at 11:08am

Your help needed today!

Boone and the Pickens Plan need your help! As you saw from Boone's email last Friday, the stimulus package will be voted on tomorrow in the House, and it includes wind energy elements that are in line with the Pickens Plan.

We need you to make a phone calls today to your Congressman and Senators. To find the phone number of your Member of Congress, go to the House of Representatives website and the U.S. Senate website and enter the info when prompted. It will give you complete contact info, including the phone number.

Here are some talking points to use when you call your Congressperson or Senator's office:

1. Urge them to tell House Leadership that their constituents support the wind energy elements included in the Stimulus Bill which will build upon 2008's successes in the wind energy sector:
-- Extension of the Production Tax Credit
-- Implementation of a renewable infrastructure loan program

2. We hope they're willing to do more on the natural gas side and provide the incentives that will greatly expand the use of domestic natural gas as a vehicle fuel in America. Expanded use of NGVs (natural gas vehicles) will help wean us off of foreign oil and create new American jobs. These incentives include:
-- Increasing the vehicle tax credit to make natural gas trucks more accessible for heavy and medium duty truck operators
-- Extending the fuel tax credit

3. The Pickens Plan works best as a whole plan - wind and natural gas - and we hope Members of Congress will support that. The Stimulus Bill is a strong start but there's more we can - and should – do.

Once you make your call, leave a comment here to let us know how it went. Or email me directly – renee.klink@pickensplan.com. (And be sure to give me your name and email address so we can make sure you get the 10 MyEnergy points we are awarding for each phone call.)

Good luck, and let's get it done!

Comment by Mark A. Hancock on January 23, 2009 at 10:40pm

My husband and I are very much in favor of any legislation that promotes green building, any grants that are or could be made available to potential home builders or buyers and also to those people interested in transforming their old outdated homes over to green power. My husband who is a licensed state board certified home builder, home inspector, and holds 4 degrees and 2 patents. He has been a home builder for over 25 years and is now preparing to build green, stand alone homes that create and run on their own power. We plan to use geo thermal, solar, hydro and wind turbines where we can and also natural gas, with a solar powered generator and battery back up system. We also plan to incorporate some new and impressive green building materials in all of our green homes. We strongly urge our congressmen and women to support the green/energy efficient powers and grants, etc. that can trully change the way we live and end out addiction to foreign oil. We have to start thinking green and also start to support the American products and ideas of green building, green living all together to save not only our planet but ourselves and our pocketbooks. There was a very interesting article in the Decatur Daily, our local newspaper the other day that told of an international pole of air pollution. It said that poor air polution was proven to be a leading cause of hypertension and high blood preassure. This not only means outdoor air polution but also indoor air polution such as smokers who make others breath in their second hand smoke and also factories and other industries that are constantly causing air pollution. Yet another article stated that in Alabama where we live that Huntsville, Birmingham and Montgomery were some of the dirtiest cities in Alabama from the air polution readings taken their in again another study that was conducted. The point is that we have to demand change, not only from factories but from auto makers to build better more effiecient vehicles that burn cleaner and also we all have to take a personal role in doing our part not to make others sick and also at the same time helping ourselves to stop that dependency on ciggerettes. We need to build better homes, better cars, better businesses and factories that run cleaner and we have to take ownership in not littering our roadways with trash, recycle and teach our children how to also take responsibility. We can no longer be lazy uninvolved citizens who just do not care what happens to our world. We need to and have to take part in doing our part and demanding that our politicians do the same by demanding that good legislations, writting good bills and seeing that they get passed, so that we can live as good as we can, and as green as we can. There is no excuse for not doing so.
Cheryl Hancock
Hancock Construction

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