FINANCE THE PLAN (THE 20% GROUP)

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Comment by Gary Fosburg on September 24, 2009 at 1:45pm

Here's how you can finance and the Pickens Plan members can have fun donating at the same time.

If the Pickens plan (which I support) supported a National Energy Lottery (see blog below) proposal and the 4 million followers donated 5 bucks a week for this Energy Raffle, there would be 800 winners a week or 41,600 winners a year of a $25,000 voucher good only for Renewable products, ie; solar, wind, hybrid, energy green appliances, etc...and be fully transferrable as well. Take advantage of the Fed's energy credit and it would buy around $32,000 worth of Green product/s.

If the Pickens Plan ran this program and retained 10% for operations, not only would it generate further income for the cause but the donators would have some fun with the potential of winning this voucher and 25,000 to 1 odds. Better than a money lottery that doesn't promote going green.

At $20,000,000 a week @ 10%, that's $2,000,000 for the Pickens Plan for operations. Would certainly be enough for expanding the mission. That's over a Billion for the year! Maybe take that money and invest in a windmill anufacturing company that is owned by the workers. Spread the prosperity and have it Made in USA by the owners/workers. see entire plan at: http://nationalenergylottery.blogspot.com/
Also an inventor who has developed a prototye called Road Power. Will convert downhill vehicle traffic 24/7/365 to electricity alongside the highways of America. No Sun, Wind, Water, Land required. One unit will power approximately 3 homes per year. Looking for Angel Investors to take to next level. Would be a great asset to the Pickens Plan to get us off foreign oil even faster. Thank you, Gary

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Comment by Mike Anthony Fernald Sr. on March 2, 2009 at 3:45am

Dear Friends

I have a Plan

Im going to get a little personal about me with you.
I Just finished a Drywall & Paint Job and realized the awesome earning potential I have within my grasp If I had 10 or more people just like me we could increase profits 10 fold maybe more. Im not saying this to soloist anyone or sell anything this is just a possible solution to raise capital to advance our projects like Energy Bonds Green Jobs and promote the best of our best Ideas. For 30 years I have been meeting all my family needs within my means with just the help of my wife.
My thought is this lets all network with one another our jobs what we do best refering one another for work and taking 10% or what ever of the job refered and put 5% into a We the People Account & the other 5% to the one who refered the job.
Mr. Pickens has spent over 50 Million of his own Money, Tell me why we all can't pull together and do this. I think most of us here part of the 77 Million Baby Boomers, I have 10-15 years left in me to sucure our Grandkids Furture.

So what do you think ?
Am I Dreaming :o} Or can we or are we willing. The only Power the Government has over us is what We the people Give them.
I'm really afraid of what I'm seeing where they are going.

Comment by Kat on February 23, 2009 at 5:41am

TODAY...The nation's most important leaders in energy reform are gathering with T. Boone Pickens at the National Clean Energy Project Summit to tackle the critical issues of ushering in a new era of renewable energy and ending our dependence on foreign oil. This event will feature a lot of people who know what they are talking about when it comes to energy policy - including John Podesta from the Center for American Progress Action Fund, U.S. Senator Harry Reid, President Bill Clinton, Vice President Al Gore, Secretary of Energy Steven Chu, Secretary of Interior Ken Salazar, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, Climate Czar Carol Browner, Owens-Corning CEO Michael Thaman, American Electric Power President & CEO Mike Morris, Sierra Club Executive Director Carl Pope, American Wind Energy Association CEO Denise Bode, Riverkeeper Alliance Chief Prosecuting Attorney Robert Kennedy, Jr. and many others.

Watch the live roundtable discussion on Monday, Feb. 23, at 10:15 a.m. ES

Comment by Larry M. Aden on February 7, 2009 at 6:08pm

TO AMASS OUR WEALTH IS TO AMASS OUR POWER
Folks, I must interject myself, here, to reiterate a few points that I have made many times before, but it just hasn't seemed to sink in to the minds of those reading it in the way I had hoped. Perhaps I do not do a very good job of communicating these ideas.
I will try one more time.
I would urge each of you to join AMASS, go to www.amass.us, or http://push.pickensplan.com/group/amass, read the description of AMASS, consider serving on the Board of Directors of AMASS, send me your application (including your résumé or CV, and your answers to the questions posed), and imagine the possibilities of capitalizing this mutual for financing a sustainable society with just $1 per day ($30 per month) from every environmentally and socially conscious citizen of the world.
Tho' I have fully supported both the savings bond and the credit union concepts for accomplishing our desired green developments from the beginning, there are huge limitations to each of these that should lead us all to realize that even more creative solutions are required for impelling truly sustainable developments.
Government savings bonds will wait for the government to act, probably till hell freezes over, but cooperative financing of all types, including bonds, we can start, today!
Joseph Chiang is very well focused upon the difficulties of bringing products to market, both technical and financial, and he is so right about the financial backing being the biggest impediment to all of us having the cheap, clean, renewable energy developments that most of us have been dreaming of since our last energy crisis 35 years ago.
Can you imagine the venture capital investment fund that we would control, today, if we had each invested just $1 per day for that entire 35 years? Nobody could stop us from producing the energy systems and the renewable energy we want!
But, of course, production is only half the equation, so consumption of that production is equally important to complete the wealth creation cycle. It does no good to produce something, if you can’t sell it to somebody that has the money, or the credit, to buy it!
Most bankers only lend money to people who don’t need it, and most of those people don’t care what energy costs, because they have plenty of money to buy it, or how much of it they waste, because they feel entitled to waste whatever they can buy.
We must build a new kind of cooperative financing organization that is able to support sustainable consumer spending as well as sustainable production, both value-added and primary, not just in America, but on a global scale.
This is a global crisis of unsustainable development. Because we are all in this muck, together, we must all climb out of this deep dark abyss, together.
Our problems are similar to the problems of people all over the world; the sustainable solutions will be, also.
Likewise, we Americans do not have a monopoly on good ideas. If someone in India, Australia, South Africa or Argentina has a good idea that could be a solution for all of us, we need to be able to funnel seed money to them for that development.
We will need to work with people in the Bahamas and Russia to develop the hydro-kinetic power of the Gulf Stream and Bering Strait, just as we do, now, with Canada to maximize hydro-electric generation at Niagara Falls. There can be many other examples of international cooperation that will be mutually beneficial for all, if we just stop trying to limit the scope of our development to only that which interests us personally.
We should think big, plan big, and act big!
Small plans are for small-minded people who will make little difference when they are here, and even less when they are gone!
Right now, we do not need some-ONE to send our little donations or investments to, we need a fully-functional 50 member Board of Directors of this legally founded mutual assurance association to create a new international cooperative banking structure that will create green jobs, and permit each one of us to pay our dues, insurance premiums, utility bills, donations, investments and savings installments, or to borrow from as needed.
Why do we all continue to support the unsustainable power structure that enslaves us with every dollar we spend, when we should be spending our money to support each other in our common quest to build a better world?
We should make our regular monthly dues and any additional insurance payments into a general revolving loan fund account that the Board will invest in the least risky and fastest return consumer loans, pay operating expenses, and pay out the members' universal AD&D, or other, insurance claims from.
Then, we should open a separate account for each different type of renewable energy, so the members can vote with their savings and investment dollars to support the types of developments that they want to see funded.
Savings account funds should be invested only in support of fully functioning renewable energy, energy-saving and energy-producing product production.
Our savings bonds could fund investment in renewable energy production installations, or market-ready energy-saving and energy-producing product manufacturing facilities.
The investment funds could go to support the riskier initial stages of any energy developments.
The Board should appoint study committees to assess technical, social and financial viability of each project and advise the full Board of those that pass the scrutiny of all three committees for final approval of funding.
Eventually, we can have physical franchise offices for providing all financial services in every political district of the world where we have members, but to start, we should operate on-line with each Director wearing a few different hats, marketing our services, facilitating deposits, accepting loan applications and insurance claims, acting as a loan officer and insurance adjuster, filing the signed paperwork for completed loans and policies, and over-seeing the progress of funded projects. We can have a secure access virtual Board Room on-line to review the documents and do the voting from home.
(I am beginning to get some offers, now, of help to set up our website in such a way.)
Our most profound dreams of how the world should work can be made to come true, if we stop waiting for others to solve our problems for us, band together, amass our wealth, communicate our vision, project our power, and solve our own individual problems by effecting sensible common solutions!
We can do this kind of private development, together, and really change the way this old world works, for the better, or we can just sit back, rely on our politicians to actually vote the way they promised and give us what we have been asking for, in which case, we will be dreaming for another 35 years with no more to show for it than we got in the past 35!

Comment by Mike Anthony Fernald Sr. on February 5, 2009 at 2:03am

Laugh of the day

lets Finance this CEO :O}

Comment by Ken Smith on January 24, 2009 at 8:14am

Wonderful Boston.com article about towns saving money by going green. Read the comments too.

http://people.boston.com/articles/?p=articlecomments&activityId=8416472632480822394

Also check out another site that supports community-scale generation nationally at www.buildbabybuild.net.

Comment by Kat on December 30, 2008 at 4:10am

Please go to http://change.gov/openforquestions sign-in or sign-up for an account at Change.gov and ask the administration what they plan to do with regard to energy independence and the Pickens Plan.

Comment by Matt Gilbert on December 17, 2008 at 9:14am

Hello All,

If you happen to reside in District 03 of KY (basically Metro Louisville), please join that district. If not please join the district your in.

If we want to be heard we need to be organized!

Matt
KY-03

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