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Comment by Laura Manning on July 18, 2008 at 4:21pm

I'm going to be a freshman next year at the University of Illinois-Champaign/Urbana. I got some information about student organizations there. There are several environmentally related groups, and I would love to share the information with them. I'm emailing them a link to this site for starters.

Comment by Jason Panagos on July 18, 2008 at 3:43pm

Absolutely.

Everyone please feel free to simply copy the letter and send it out to any and all newspapers in your area. Most of the information is simply cherry picked from the info available from this website.

Comment by Chris McNeil on July 18, 2008 at 3:26pm

Thanks Kenny. Great idea. Anyone in our group live near Oregon? Would you be willing to go to the event and then report back to our group?

Comment by Kenny on July 18, 2008 at 2:02pm

I just wanted to let everyone know about the 7th Annual Illinois Renewable Energy and Sustainable Lifestyle Fair coming up in Oregon, Illinois. The event is normally very well attended, and there are many great speakers and exhibitors. Could be a good place to do some recruiting, too...

http://push.pickensplan.com/events/event/show?id=2187034:Event:106954

Comment by Chris McNeil on July 18, 2008 at 6:49am

Will County - Chris McNeil
Bureau County - Mary Lynn May
Vermillion County - Ken
DuPage County - Marta Dolan
St. Clair County - Danielle Matthews
Knox County - Ralph Scott
Boone County - Jason Walker
Johnson County - Homer Baker
Peoria Area - Jon Hutchison
Logan County- Darrell Batley
Kane County - Sonne DeVries
Lake County - Sonne DeVries
Cook County - Sonne DeVries, Victor Gomez
Winnebago County - Jason Walker, David
McClean County - Andy Scott
Marion County - Robert Taylor
Jackson County - Robert Colombo

Jason, do members of our group have your permission to use your letter for their own local papers?

Comment by Mary on July 18, 2008 at 5:50am

I'm an attorney willing to help move the Pickens Plan in Bureau County, which now has a few years of experience with wind farms. Mary Lynn May

Comment by Jason Panagos on July 17, 2008 at 8:51pm

I recently sent out a letter to the editors of all the local newspapers in my area. Maybe you would all like to do the same. Hopefully we can generate more interest in the Plan through print. Here is what I sent out.


I’m sure we have all had our share of conversations in the last several years about why gasoline is so expensive and what forces are at work to drive up the prices we pay at the pump. Is it the oil companies? Is it OPEC? Is it the speculators at the commodities exchanges? Everyone has their theories and everyone is upset at the effect the higher fuel prices are having on our economy. There is however, one undeniable fact:

America is addicted to foreign oil.

It's an addiction that threatens our economy, our environment and our national security. It touches every part of our daily lives and ties our hands as a nation and a people. As imports grow and world prices rise, the amount of money we send to foreign nations every year is soaring. At current oil prices, we will send $700 billion dollars out of the country this year alone. In 10 years we will have sent out over 10 trillion dollars to other nations in order to pay for this addiction.

It doesn’t have to continue. There is a plan out there to create domestic renewable energy that could substantially reduce and eventually eliminate our nations foreign oil purchases. It’s called the Pickens Plan.

The Pickens Plan is a bridge to the future — a blueprint to reduce foreign oil dependence by harnessing domestic energy alternatives. Building new wind generation facilities and better utilizing our natural gas resources can replace more than one-third of our foreign oil imports in 10 years. But it will take leadership.

On January 20th, 2009, a new President will take office. We should organize behind the Pickens Plan now to ensure our voices will be heard by the next administration. Together we can raise a call for change and set a new course for America's energy future in the first hundred days of the new presidency — breaking the hammerlock of foreign oil and building a new domestic energy future for America with a focus on sustainability.
You can start changing America's future today by supporting the Pickens Plan. Please visit www.pickensplan.com and join the fight to save our nation’s energy future.

Jason Panagos
New Lenox, Illinois

Comment by Ken on July 17, 2008 at 4:00pm

I could do Vermilion county.

Comment by Ethan Auburn on July 17, 2008 at 3:52pm

Feel free to join the Northwest IL group i think its on the first active group page

Comment by Marta Dolan on July 17, 2008 at 1:40pm

I could do DuPage county

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