Maryland for Energy Independence

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Comment by Andy Hoover on September 18, 2008 at 7:42am

I am starting to work on a list of actionable items that Marylanders can work on to start implementing Pickensplan in MD. This will focus on implementation of the stated objectives only...no think tank stuff. Please contact me if you would like to help. One of the things that I think needs to be done is to conduct a coordinated effort to contact state and local candidates before the election and post this so that everyone can see the progress...who we have successfully contacted, and who we have not. I see the button on the main page to contact U.S. representatives, but it looks like the state and local reps have been neglected so far. Also, it does not look like we (nationally) have been keeping track of which representatives we have actually gotten the message to. Please let me know your thoughts...
Andy

Comment by Keith Sanderson President/Co Founder USA Energy Independence dot com on September 5, 2008 at 9:17am

If you want to read the USA Declaration of Energy Independence, go to my group USA Energy Independence in the Pickens Plan
keith

Comment by veronica langley on September 3, 2008 at 6:40pm

hi to all, knew to this any one can point me in the right direction would be great. thanks

Comment by Mona on September 3, 2008 at 9:18am

We have a small but very well read paper in Howard County entitled Howard County Issues. The readership is likely your exact target market and our ad rates are very low - we're a volunteer citizen group and print local political information. Sierra Club has advertised with us.

Let me know if you can scrape together $250 for a full page ad that reaches 5,000 Howard County citizens and remains on the internet indefinitely.

Also, we just signed a contract to advertise on CNN, MNSBC, and Fox during the week preceding Nov elections.

Comment by Keith Sanderson President/Co Founder USA Energy Independence dot com on August 28, 2008 at 12:14pm

Now Would you believe Stossel wonders why people are angry because he said USA Energy Independence is Idiocy

Mr. Stossel, It's not your argument that angered people.
What angered people is suggesting that USA Energy Independence is idiocy.Most rational people aren't angered over a debate. They are angered over the implication that what they believe is idiotic.

I suggest that you look up the stats of the 70s regarding what happened when the oil flow to the United States was reduced. For starters gasoline prices quadrupled, interest rates rose to as high as 18 percent, and we saw double digit inflation.

Today a similar situation could mean $16.00 a gallon gasoline.

High priced gasoline like that would ruin me and my family and most other families. It would probably even put a crimp in your TV ratings.
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Back in the 70's we only imported about 30 percent of our oil needs. Today we import about 67 percent. Close to half of what we import comes from parts of the world such as Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Nigeria and Venezuela, places that are one step away from terrorist attacks, war, or have unfriendly government. Let us not forget Russia from whom we import oil.

Your models are based on the way things were. In the late 19th and early 20th century naysayers such as you were criticizing visionaries such as Henry Ford, because they couldn't imagine that there would be a demand for automobiles. Why? Because there was no infrastructure to manufacture and deliver fuel. The point is the Stossels of the world always talk as if things will remain the same and can't visualize the domino affect change has

I don't plan to bet the future of my family on depending on the oil dictators, sheiks and governments of unfriendly oil cartel nations. I would rather move forward through a combination of conservation, new auto technology, increased utilization of developing oil reserves, and the rapid development of alternative energy.

Stop being a naysayer and take a look around you. See what is going on. If you keep the blinders you will continue to show who the idiot is.

Keith Sanderson
President and Co founder
USA Energy Independence dot com

Comment by Theresa D. Milner on August 26, 2008 at 11:53am

Hello! I just joined... mikesbawx.org website was down. Any links to information would be wonderful! Thanks!

Comment by Keith Sanderson President/Co Founder USA Energy Independence dot com on August 22, 2008 at 8:45am

Below is a rebuttal I wrote to John Stossel's opinion piece "The Idiocy of Energy Independence." I believe Stossel is so off base on this one, those who believe energy independence is worth discussing and working toward suggest to Stossel who the idiot is.

Hi John,
I usually agree with your opinions, but in this case you are way off base.
Your economic arguments are valid only for cheap energy.
When oil rises in cost as it will continue to do long term, then alternative forms of energy become economically viable.
In your argument you talk about Carter and the calls for energy independence by he and other presidents. However, you don't discuss the Arab Oil Embargo which caused double digit inflation, high unemployment and long lines at gas pumps.
The Arab oil embargo occurred when this nation was only importing about 30% of its oil needs, and the embargo only affected a drop of imports of about 5% of the total oil we consumed.
Now, the United States imports approximately 70% of its oil and over 40% of that comes from unstable or unfriendly places such as the Middle East, Nigeria and Venezuela.

Imagine, what the results will be if suddenly oil was reduced by 5 percent because of a terrorist, man made, or a natural catastrophe in one of those areas.

I don't need to imagine. I remember the 1970's vividly and using that as a model I shudder to think what can happen if we don't work towards energy independence.

Keith Sanderson
President and Co founder
USA Energy Independence dot com

Comment by Starr on August 17, 2008 at 8:33pm

To Gregory Menoche, what was your experience when installing the wind turbine and what process did you have to go through? Also, how has it changed your intake cost wise?

Comment by Starr on August 17, 2008 at 8:03pm

I agree with contacting those that hold official offices. They themselves can not completely get things started but we put them in office to speak for us in a sense and to be our eyes and ears.

To Cimino I agree with getting a basic cost and tax credits. Also to include permits. What is the actual breakdown on the zone as far as the color codes?

Comment by Jon M Stresing on August 17, 2008 at 4:14pm

Write your Senators!!!!!

Mikulski, Barbara A.- (D - MD)
Class III
503 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-4654
Web Form: mikulski.senate.gov/mailform.html



Sarbanes, Paul S.- (D - MD)
Class I
309 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-4524
Web Form: sarbanes.senate.gov/pages/email.html
Write your House Reps!!!!!

# Wayne T. Gilchrest (R), 1st Congressional District
# C. A. Dutch Ruppersberger III (D), 2nd Congressional District
# John P. Sarbanes (D), 3rd Congressional District
# Donna F. Edwards* (D), 4th Congressional District
# Steny H. Hoyer (D), 5th Congressional District
# Roscoe G. Bartlett (R), 6th Congressional District
# Elijah E. Cummings (D), 7th Congressional District
# Christopher Van Hollen, Jr. (D), 8th Congressional District

Find out and Write your MD House fo Delegates too!!! Too many to list So here is the link
http://www.msa.md.gov/msa/mdmanual/06hse/html/hsedist.html

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