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Comment by John Wesley Nobles 18 hours ago

Please join Veronica Gold, Ohio State Leader and Sean Kinney, District Leader, OH-12 on The Green Revolution Show next Wednesday, 11/25/09, 2 pm eastern, 11 am pacific. Ohio Congressional Cosponsor's of HR 1835 have been invited to participate. Sean will also discuss some of his marketing strategies. Listening and call in number is 347-637-3101, or go to your computer. Your telephone participation is always appreciated by our guest. You make the difference!

Comment by Robert Schultz 1 day ago

www.41WorldUSA.com

Did they send anyone else here a message? Why did Pickens Plan ban them in the first place? They were one of his biggest supporters.

Comment by William Engwer 1 day ago

I may be behind the curve here, but now that the FuelMaker is returning to production, there are several possible ways to ease the financial outlay that consumers interested in natural gas vehicles and home re-fueling see as a difficulty. Please see the discussion at http://push.pickensplan.com/group/exploitexistinginfrastructure. William Engwer

Comment by Richard Barnard on November 18, 2009 at 8:04pm

Your legislatures do read the PP mail.

Richard Barnard

November 18, 2009

Dear Mr. Barnard:

Thank you for contacting my office in support of H.R. 1835, the NAT GAS Act. I agree with you that our nation can no longer be reliant on oil to meet our transportation needs. I also agree with you that natural gas can play a role as a transitional fuel while we develop cleaner fuels and methods of transportation.

I support some provisions of H.R. 1835, such as encouraging the federal government to purchase vehicles that can run on natural gas. However, I don't think providing large tax credits for purchasing natural gas powered vehicles is the best way to incentivize purchase of natural gas vehicles or other highly efficient vehicles. The real problem is the volatility in the price of conventional gasoline. When conventional gasoline prices are high, consumers will demand alternatives, such better mass transit, more efficient cars, and natural gas vehicles. We saw this happen last summer when gasoline prices were over $4. When the price comes down, however, the demand dries up. With no guarantee or even general idea of what gasoline prices will be in the future, there is no consumer demand for alternatives and no incentive for businesses to invest in new technologies. The answer is to stabilize gasoline prices and steadily increase them through the use of a gas or a carbon tax. If both consumers and businesses know that the price of gasoline will continue to rise, behavior will change and consumers will both demand more clean and efficient transportation and fuel choices and will have more choices made available to them. I've proposed legislation, H.R. 594, the Save Our Climate Act, that would impose a carbon tax with the goal of spurring innovation and combating global warming.

Natural gas vehicles do have a role to play in transforming our energy policy. I appreciate hearing from you and I will keep your thoughts in mind if the NAT GAS Act comes up for a vote.

Sincerely,
Pete Stark
Member of Congress

Comment by Dave Clement on November 18, 2009 at 2:28pm

Please watch this video-
Video on natural gas Honda and Phill
Pay attention to the 3E's mentioned in this video- Environment, Energy and Economics! We need to get this into every discussion or conversation we have with anyone about natural gas vehicles! Pass it on.

Comment by Sean Kinney on November 18, 2009 at 11:22am

For me, what is great about the PickensPlan and our mission is that we try to be non-partisan and on task. Our successes - or failures - is not determined by China or others do but by how we choose to act - or not.

"The fact Americans will do anything to each other for money is not a conspiracy, it's a scandal" - Bill Maher

Comment by Robert Schultz on November 18, 2009 at 10:53am

What a coincidence, just got this e-mail...

China and the Budget - a solution

Everyone's focused on how much stuff we import from China. But we have plenty of manufacturing ability right here in the U.S.

But China spends a fraction of what we do on tanks and bombs, and earns a fortune selling us products we could make ourselves. So today, all the news and pundits are saying that China's is the economy to watch, while America is faltering.

There's a lesson there for the people who write our budgets. And they need to hear it right now, because they just started writing the next budget. Use this page to tell Peter Orszag to write a budget that reflects our priorities.

Comment by Robert Schultz on November 18, 2009 at 10:49am

Amy, the good thing about wind turbines is that they are so big that it costs less to use our relatively expensive labor force rather than pay for shipping huge turbines from China. I would rather support smaller, local builders, made in the USA. Not multinational greed corps like GE.

Comment by Robert Schultz on November 18, 2009 at 10:00am

I used to work for Honeywell Electronic Materials. They were bought by GE, and my job was sent to Thailand. 50% of the people I worked with were laid off in the next year. I was lucky enough to find a better job, many others were not.

Comment by amy oconnor on November 18, 2009 at 9:29am

I'm sorry - 1 more...

I think this is a good job for the Ex Presidents...Go visit these countries and get them to Deal With Us !!!

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