URGENT!! It's Time to Stand Up and be heard for Alternative Energy VOTE Excluding Solar Imminent
Friends,
There has been a massive federal movement on clean energy with Congress wrapping climate policy, renewable energy targets, and transmission overhaul into one mammoth bill. That legislation (Chairmen Waxman & Markey's energy bill) is now moving forward, but it's missing two key pieces that would help ensure solar plays a strong role in the mix. Do you have a moment to call your Representative to ask for a fix before the plan goes to its first House vote next week?
With its tremendous economic and environmental benefits, solar needs to be part our nation's new energy plan. Yet, recent analysis of the bill by the Department of Energy shows that it would do little to deploy solar.
Call the capital switchboard at (202) 224-3121, and ask to be transferred to your House Representative. Here's the message:
"I am concerned that the current House energy bill does not include policies to support solar energy. I urge you to move us towards a diversified clean energy future by adding two important solar provisions:
1. Please add a 20% distributed generation carve-out to the Renewable Electricity Standard; and,
2. Please amend the climate change title to require that 10% of the pollution allowances be allocated to renewable energy projects."
These two little changes will mean a world of difference in moving solar into the mainstream across the country. With this first vote looming in the Energy and Commerce Committee, time is of the essence. Our solar compatriots in Washington, who have been tirelessly knocking on doors urging legislators to add specific solar provisions to this huge bill, certainly appreciate your help. They've done good work, but as a constituent your voice can hit the message home.
(note this message has been passed on from the Vote Solar organization - for your support)
There has been a massive federal movement on clean energy with Congress wrapping climate policy, renewable energy targets, and transmission overhaul into one mammoth bill. That legislation (Chairmen Waxman & Markey's energy bill) is now moving forward, but it's missing two key pieces that would help ensure solar plays a strong role in the mix. Do you have a moment to call your Representative to ask for a fix before the plan goes to its first House vote next week?
With its tremendous economic and environmental benefits, solar needs to be part our nation's new energy plan. Yet, recent analysis of the bill by the Department of Energy shows that it would do little to deploy solar.
Call the capital switchboard at (202) 224-3121, and ask to be transferred to your House Representative. Here's the message:
"I am concerned that the current House energy bill does not include policies to support solar energy. I urge you to move us towards a diversified clean energy future by adding two important solar provisions:
1. Please add a 20% distributed generation carve-out to the Renewable Electricity Standard; and,
2. Please amend the climate change title to require that 10% of the pollution allowances be allocated to renewable energy projects."
These two little changes will mean a world of difference in moving solar into the mainstream across the country. With this first vote looming in the Energy and Commerce Committee, time is of the essence. Our solar compatriots in Washington, who have been tirelessly knocking on doors urging legislators to add specific solar provisions to this huge bill, certainly appreciate your help. They've done good work, but as a constituent your voice can hit the message home.
(note this message has been passed on from the Vote Solar organization - for your support)
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Permalink Reply by Bruce Hubbell on -
The problem with a comprehensive (kitchen sink) approach is that a lot of stuff that is pure crap gets put into a bill that should only have one subject. For instance, an energy bill that contains claptrap about cap and trade (tax and kill) should die a quick and sudden death. There is no scientific data connecting global warming with CO2, etc.
Please see the editorial at this link:
http://ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=330911757213432
by the way, here's another one on the Waxman-Markey crap sandwich
http://ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=330822830678035
To say that all this bill needs is to add some solar provision to the bill is asking to have the Pickens Plan dismissed as being populated by a bunch of environmental nut jobs hellbent on wrecking the economy.
Mark, I realize that you wrote this in May. But it's time to update this to reflect the current state of affairs. I'm contacting my Senators and asking them to kill this turkey while they still can. Waxman-Markey is bad for America.
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Permalink Reply by Mark Hedtke on -
My own personal opinion concerning alternative energy has been focused upon the so called free energy that America has in abundance ie solar, wind and water. I refer to this as a key major problem (my own opinion), there has been a concentration on the obvious oil usage transportation problem in the press and legislatively, just to make a distinction. Why? Although impractical (initial cost of alternative systems) in many cases on an individual basis today, it is my opinion that it is the poor choices that the utilities have made who have created much of the problem (increased electricity rates, our increasingly negative ecological impact as well as a negative effect upon our economy) by not diversifying and putting a majority of their eggs into a single energy source, ie coal, oil or even nuclear. We are all aware that years ago in many parts of the country there were hydro plants that provided electricity even for small communities ( a case in point a small town of I believe,112 pop located at Big Falls, Wisconsin. It has the distinction of making a choice to be a hydro plant location instead of agreeing to be an automobile plant, basically what Detroit became. That plant is still there). While there are many naysayers out there criticizing what is being done today and that there are too many directions being pursued, it proves that there are many people doing something about trying to find better solutions!! Therefore I feel that RES is the proper solution for energy credit.
My choices for auto solutions are : http://www.mdi.lu/english/produits.php and http://www.teslamotors.com/ and http://www.rogerebillings.com/ProjectReports/ProjectHydrogen.html
While my home energy solutions allign closely with : http://www.nrel.gov/pv/ with projects like : http://www.repoweramerica.org/ and http://www.votesolar.org/
as well as Dr. Billings independent home back in 1975: http://www.rogerebillings.com/Timeline/1975/1975B.html
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Permalink Reply by Mark Hedtke on
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One thing that everyone is missing here in the controversy over energy is the fact that our dependence upon foreign energy, ie oil, certainly is a main issue related to transportation, yet what generally is not in the news and everyone fails to understand, is that so much more energy is used for powering our homes and businesses. Where does this energy come from? While the gasoline issue directly relates to eliminating our dependence on foreign energy for transportation, the much larger issue for all Americans is being held "energy prisoners" by the utilities to charge us what ever they choose, whenever they choose, because their cost for fuel to run fossil fuel generators has risen. That seems to be the only time that we rail against what we are charged, when they raise their rates! Whether it is at the fuel pump or the electric meter, both industries are getting rich at our expense. When a representative of the PP states that the scope of the long term plan is only for CNG and Wind, that is not a long term solution. Those of us who have been promoting for the past 40 years the renewable resources that we have in plenty here in America, recognize that the real solution to reduce and eliminate our dependence on foreign energy is to have solar, wind and water become the primary energy sources with the non-renewables becoming their supplement. A long term goal has to include these solutions or it's flawed at best!!
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