Conservation - Are you game?
Politics aside, we must admit that energy independence got lost in the candidate's messages about the economy, bank bail-outs, healthcare reform, and the rest. While all of the Wall Street panic and campaign hype was happening something very interesting was happening to our OPEC friends - they discussed raising the price of oil and at the very same time the actual cost of a barrel of oil fell. Why? Because consumers, who had been paying such high prices, started to conserve fuel. By using less oil for transportation, we have pushed the price down. Simple economics at work. When demand rises prices rise, when demand falls prices do too. This got me thinking, with so many simple ways for us to conserve (fuel, water, electricity, natural gas, landfill space, etc..) what changes have you made in your normal daily routine to "conserve" your energy use? With the colder winter months upon us, please share your personal engery independence plans with everyone! Sometimes the simplest of ideas can make the biggest difference.
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Permalink Reply by Roi Chinn on -
Michelle,
Please check out Oakland County For The Pickens Plan. I will be hosting a series of Community Conversations we should work together the impact and outcome will be that more effective. If you are one of the leaders and get put us together we can share our limited resources reach more people and actually get things done. Our group is primarily focused on informing the public and putting the necessary pressure on our elected officials to get off their collective a**** and move our state forward.
Happy Thanksgiving and Peace be with you,
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Permalink Reply by Roi Chinn on
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Marsha,
Your point is valid, however we cannot put politicsaside. It is the collective failure of both our House and State Senate to put the presure on the Big three to face the future, become efficient and develop innovative technologies. You see there is no excuse, we have the engineers, resources brain trust and interest right here in Michigan to develop a diversified and recession proof economy. As organizers, business & community leaders, and citizens we must also do something politically to ensure that they is the necessary infrastructure for our state to rebuild and become energy independent. And that infrastructure is absent in Michigan, and you are right its not a republicamn or democrat thing0but it is a failed government thing and we efforts must be to also rid ourselves of poor decision-making on the part of our so called elected leaders. That is why I plan to run for he State Senate seat in the 13th district in 2010, after our group has travelled the district in our community conversations informing the public of our situation and its more dire then previously reported and to report the good news, if we begin now both a personal and govt level, because that is what it takes, and we are all ready to participate in transforming and remaking our future. Waiting for our elected officlas to act in our best interest, get off their fat, old a**** in an exercise in mental masturbation. At this point in our state and nation's situation I would rather be governed by the first 200 people in the phone than the do-nothing, finger-pointing, party first politicians in Lansing.
So tell me what do we do after the holidays, what are are next steps as two groups in MI that support the Plan? I am ready to roll.
Happy Thanksgivings,
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