Chad Deal's Page

THE PICKENS VIRTUAL MARCH BEGINS April 1, 2009.

IT’S TIME FOR ACTION!

EMAIL THE LEGISLATORS LISTED BELOW

Tell’em :

YOU’RE A PICKENS PLAN VOLUNTEER FROM HAWAII.

The leadership at the SUMMIT MEETING of the National Clean Energy Project agreed that “Building” The smart grid is the first step on the road to reducing our dependence on foreign oil.

For Hawaii this means building the key element of the HCEI Agreement:
THE SUBMARINE POWER CABLE - TO GRID THE ISLANDS.

TELL THEM TO MAKE THIS PROJECT THEIR # 1 GOAL FOR 2009!

Russ Robinson - District Leader Hawaii



Sen. Akaka : (202) 224-6361 senator@akaka.senate.gov

Sen. Inouye: (202) 224-3934 senator@inouye.senate.gov

Neil Abercrombie - (202) 225-2726 http://www.abercrombie.house.gov

Mazie Hirono - 02 (202) 225- 4906 http://www.hirono.house.gov

Aloha to the Hawaiian Regiment of the Pickens army!

The boss need each of us to contact our U.S. Senators and ask them to support the Pickens Plan components of the stimulus package.

Here’s some words from Boone you might consider using:

“A high percentage of our oil still comes from foreign countries. Even in December, as the economy was contracting, we imported nearly 70 percent of the oil we used and paid over $19 billion for it.

I am very interested in the aspects of The American Renewal and Reinvestment Act (H.R. 1) that include the promotion of alternative energy - wind and solar; the building out of a 21st century electrical transmission grid; and incenting trucking companies to upgrade from trucks running on foreign diesel to those running on domestic natural gas.

A Department of Energy study showed that developing our capacity to produce wind energy would not only replace 20 percent of the electricity we now produce using coal-burning plants, but would add 138,000 jobs in the first year and more than 3.4 million over a ten-year span.

Also, if we switch just 350,000 of the 6.5 million heavy trucks running on the nation's Interstate Highways to domestic natural gas from imported diesel, we could cut our oil imports by over five percent. In December alone that would have kept nearly $1 billion from being shipped off shore.

I hope you will join me in supporting these components of the Pickens Plan as H.R. 1 moves toward final passage.”

----------

Remember, whatever ill befalls the Mainland economy, worse will happen to Hawaii. If we loose the energy sector of the economy we’ll loose all of the benefits of the Industrial Revolution, and Hawaiians will once again go sailing to fish the Northwest Islands in the likes of HOKULE’A and MAKALI’I.

Russ Robinson
Pickens Plan District Leader for HI 01/02




Sen. Akaka
http://akaka.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Contact.Home

Sen. Inouye
http://inouye.senate.gov/abtform.html

Hi Chad, Here is a tool for all of us to get renewable energy going. I am working the introduction into Congress a bill for US Treasury "Energy Independence Savings Bonds". Savings bonds are normally purchased in $25 increments. This gives a way for just about any American to tighten their belts just a bit by skipping a meal at McDonalds or Pizza Hut and buying an RE savings bond to support a renewable energy project and save money at the same time for themselves. I need help pushing this project, I've faxed and emailed many in Congress/Senate already.If you agree with this plan please consider passing to other people in your district as it will be a great tool to get funding for PickensPlan projects through support of Renewable Energy projects. On my web page is a link for a new group that was started today called “Energy Independence US Treasury Savings Bonds” At your discretion I encourage you to join on the link as one of “my friends” and the join the group if you agree with the goals. I have created a group on PickensPlan called “Energy Independence US Treasury Savings Bonds” . It is currently listed as the number 3 group on the PickensPlan website and I encourage you to check it out, join if you like it, and become friends on my PickensPlan page. My email address is michael.kendall@ymail.com Here is a copy of a fax sent to Nancy Pelosi the other day:
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
27FEB09
Honorable Speaker of the House Congresswoman Pelosi,

I am an Electronic Technician Chief in the US Navy with 27 years service stationed overseas. I’m outlying an idea to assist and work with current plans for achieving energy independence. I urge you, as speaker of the house and the driving force to form the select committee on energy independence and global warming, consider for discussion and introduction into the house US Treasury Savings Bonds for Energy Independance.
In WWII America sold war bonds supporting the war effort. When young, my mother told me her primary school raised enough money through bonds to build a tank to support troops. I am impressed with the patriotism and purpose of our greatest generation that accomplished so much.

Selling energy bonds for RE (Renewable Energy) development would lower foreign oil imports and assist with the complex problem of funding. Bonds sold as “Energy S” could support new solar trough plants, “Energy W” to support wind farms, Energy “H” to support hydroelectric plants, Energy “T” to support RE transportation such as electric bullet train routes powered by RE, Energy "C" COOPS for small communities only needing a small quantity of turbines, and Energy “I” for needed infrastructure high voltage power lines to the RE site. Bonds will have the project name and include an artist’s perspective of the project and an American flag. President Obama had great success with the internet during his campaign. In a similar manner, using the internet, energy bonds could have a website listing current projects and an “electronic checkout” could purchase a bond $25 or higher. Simpler methods of payment such as “PAYPAL” and credit cards would be available and after an electronic purchase is complete a color print out of the bond is available with a follow up of the bond in the mail. The website would limit quantity of projects for each category until funding is complete. After a project becomes funded, a new project will be available. A tab on the site will show history and status of previous projects. Purchasers may take great pride in “collecting” and displaying bonds of various RE projects and participating at different levels of financial support. Solar trough plants in the multi-hundred MW size capacity with molten salt energy storage in California, Arizona, and West Texas can provide a major portion of electric needs. North Dakota has potential to support 1/3 of our nations electric needs in it’s class 4 wind zone areas. There are plenty of suitable proposed wind turbine farms now around the nation to significantly increase our RE if funded. Mid sized hydro-electric has not been used in America to it’s full potential. Following the example of our neighbor, Canada, it would provide a significant increase in percentage of electric production. Developing all three we could provide the majority of our electric and heating needs through renewable energy in a "New New Deal" fashion allowing natural gas for transportation as T. Boone Pickens is working for. Bullet train routes have proven a viable alternative to commercial domestic air service and when powered by electricity provided by RE suppliers America would be in the forefront of world technology. Example, I heard of discussion for a commuter train from Denver to Colorado Springs. Such a route built as a renewable energy project with charter requirement legally requiring to only purchase electricity from available renewable energy sources would be a model example. There are many train routes, city bus systems, and government vehicles that can be converted to run from alternative energy sources and fuels. Jobs created would bolster the economy, lower trade deficit, and strengthen national security. I would take great pride in print outs of bonds with graphics of each project I supported and many other Americans would also. The energy bonds could have tax breaks. BLM lands may be a viable place to start for some projects.

I contacted the US treasury department and was told that the marketing department for savings bonds closed several years ago. I was told there would be problems because savings bonds are at the federal level while the projects will be at the state and local level. I disagree and believe that these can easily be figured out in the way of grants to the state and local level using money from the bonds for those specific projects. I was told to check out auctions on the www.treasurydirect.gov website and found them to not apply to citizens wanting to buy savings bonds to support a cause such as energy independance. I was told by the treasury department to look into CREB (Clean Renewable Energy Bonds). I found CREB to be large scale funding that a citizen would not be able to participate in as a US Treasury Energy Independance Bond would provide. If given the tools to participate directly, the power of the citizens of the United States to help achieve energy independance could not be denied. Americans mean well and the Energy Independance Savings bond program will give citizens the power at their level to make it happen. If marketed through a web page, commercials, and to federal employees the word would get out and participation would spread like wildfire.

Mr. Paul Gipe, a resident of Bakersfield CA, an author of several books about wind energy, and recipient of multiple awards as a pioneer in the industry since the 1970's has put a letter I wrote to Senator Dorgan on this subject as well as an older letter I wrote on wind COOP in JAN07. These websites are:

http://www.wind-works.org/coopwind/RenewableEnergyBondsforEnergyIndependence.html
and
http://www.wind-works.org/articles/AmericanEnergyIndependencethroughCooperativeInvestmentinWindEnergy.html

Sincerely and very respectfully,

ETC(SW/AW) Mike Kendall USN
Mailing address: PSC 476, Box 879, FPO AP, 96322 USA
Telephone (803) 265-4756, Email: michael.kendall@ymail.com

Here is the link to the form for manual sign ups. It is located also at TAKE ACTION, under MY ENERGY and "manual upload" (blue tab on the left):

http://action.pickensplan.com/site/c.hdKGIKNqEoG/b.4816589/k.7207/Volunteer_Login_Form/apps/ka/ct/contactus.asp?c=hdKGIKNqEoG&b=4816589&en=llJRJaP0KfLOLdMYKdIOLaPTKnI1JfO2LlIXKdM0IvKdH

Thanks
Kim

Here is the link for the District Leaderboard which shows who has signed it,
in Washington.... and who has not:

http://www.pickensplan.com/district-leaderboard/

So glad to see you are still here! I agree, i t is great idea. The list is shown at TAKE ACTION page. I will grab the link and bring it to you.

I hope everything is going well for you. Any movementon the house? Who could have know that this would be such a bad downturn. What is going on with the algae project?

There is a new function on the site where you can manually input the name, adress and email of a new supporter. I hope you will take the time to put a few in today. We all have a handful or more of friends who don't tend to get involved, by going online but will suport it. PLease add them.

Have a great day. So nice to hear from you, You have seen this from the beginning. I still believe we can get this done. Certainly it will be a whole lot easier for Boone if we are 30 million supporters. Imagine, if every one of his 1.4 million addded just 20 freinds, we would be at 33 million overnight. WE aren't asking folks to take up arms- how hard can it be?

I just finished going over 650 since August - everyone wants to get off foreign oil, onto Amercan solutions AND keep the money here.... .. . .


Best Chad
Kim

Thanks Chad.

You know, we are on the final push here. Either we get the attention of Congress, or they go on their merry way doing what we have always done.


The only way to get them to act is to make it political suicide if they don't.
Sheer numbers are the only thing they will understand. I willl be happy to hear how it goes.

14 days until the new congress is sworn in. Let's give them a welcome gift they will never forget. MILLIONS of supporters laid at their feet.


Happy Hawaii holidays
Kim

Hi Chad!

Saw your comment to Boone on the Corning support. Glad to see you are still here! Any movement on the house? How is HI project you are working on?

Here is my plea, hope you can help just a bit.


Will you gather supporters with petitions? We only have 15 days until Congress is sworn in. Time is of the essence.

Here is the petition:
http://media.pickensplan.com/downloads/PP/pollingsignupsheet.pdf

NO INFLUENCE WITHOUT NUMBERS

I have been able to gather hundreds with a simple sentence -
"I am collecting signatures of support for T. Boone PIckens plan to get us off of foreign oil and onto American solutions" then put the petition in front of them. EVERYONE wants to get off foreign oil, we just need to add them to our list!

Please stop by and let me know how it goes. WE CAN DO THIS!
Let me know if I can help in any way.

Best and Merriest to you!
Kim