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- Are you interested in becoming an organizer in your area?
- Yes
- Tell us about your experience with alternative energy:
- I have no experience in this area outside of the firm conviction that America's current energy policy is not sustainable. We need to do better, and we can do better.
- What excites you about this campaign?
- 1 - The possibility of helping America to reduce its foreign energy dependencies and hence ...
2 - We can cut back on the need of our troops (myself included) to intervene militarily in oil rich regions of the world.
3 - We can cut back on need of the American government to support blatantly anti-democratic and violently anti-American governments and societies in oil rich regions of the world and thereby ...
4 - We can reduce the financial support for terrorists and other extremist groups that these governments and societies are able to provide with their excess petrodollars.
5 - Some of the money now spent on securing access to foreign oil can be invested at home in America instead of overseas and ...
6 - It will allow us to transfer some of the money now going overseas for petroleum based energy products to states in the American "wind belt" and instead invest it to faltering rural communities here in America.
7 - The possibility of reducing gas prices by reducing demand.
8 - The fact that this campaign was created and is being backed by a wealthy Texas oil man who seems unlikely to be railroaded by the special interests in Washington DC who are benefiting from America's current energy policy.
- What do you want to do to help?
- What do you need?
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