How Do We Best Tell Our Legislators What We Want From Them? Lets Collaborate!

Hi everyone,

There are a number of good letters that Pickens Plan members have been using when contacting their legislators. You can find them all over the many groups. Few, to none, of these letters seem to address CNG conversion kits for existing vehicles. The members of this group have a special insight into CNG and what is needed to make conversion kits accessible and affordable for all our vehicles. With that said, I would like to see all of us collaborate on a letter that can be used when contacting our legislators. This letter should focus on CNG (we my decide to expand this to include LNG?) as a transportation fuel, and conversion kits as he means to make our vehicles run on NG. I'll be happy to start this off, over the next few days, but I'm by no means a wordsmith. So, please help with edits, guidance, ideas, and constructive criticism!

Below are some drafts for this document.

Dave

Tags: cng, conversion, kits, letters, lng

Attachments:

CNG legislator Letter Draft 1.doc, 119 KB
CNG legislator Letter Draft 2.doc, 113 KB
Final Draft CNG Legislator Letter.doc, 110 KB

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Permalink Reply by Steve DiGiantomasso on November 24, 2008 at 5:04pm: short and sweet.

The word "bondage" in a bill 95% of the time will get it dismissed.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Dave on November 24, 2008 at 5:22pm: Hi Steve,

How about instead of "at its core is the desire to free our great nation from the bondage of...," we say "the clutches of..." That then goes with the next paragraph's use of the phrase "strangle hold." Whatever the verbiage, it has to convey the importance of the points being made. Thanks for the input!

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Permalink Reply by Steve DiGiantomasso on December 1, 2008 at 7:53pm: great job, sir

sorry I haven't had the time lately to talk about this I am happy you see my point.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Dave on December 3, 2008 at 4:36pm: Hi everyone,

I just added what I'll call the final draft of this letter. It is titled "Final Draft CNG Legislator Letter." This would be a great time to start sending this letter to your legislators (and the President Elect) with all the issues regarding the auto industry bailouts!

For those of you willing to do so, I also suggest going low tech and printing signing and mailing this letter; rather than just e-mailing!

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