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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 worked all over the world in the energy business. Both from the constrction side to the Managment. I was VP of American Eng. from 1996 to 1998 for the Uzbek Natural Gas Conversion Project. It was a project that was to convert 300,000 government vehicles to natural gas and to build 290 refueling stations in the country. I know this business and know that it needs to be done here and should have been done at least 20 years ago. I was in charge of 700 people and saw this start and know it works.
- What excites you about this campaign?
- It is about thime that someone who has the brains and some financial ability to call the bluff of our big oil industry. We can do this because we need too. I have worked all over the world and know for a fact that we are in trouble becasue the people of the other countries that are in the oil business are not interested in anything but money. If they could figure out how to sell us air they would do it. We are in a self made trap and the answer is to stop listening to those that are taking our country away from us and start using our heads.
- What do you want to do to help?
- Anything I can. I own my own company in Columbus Ohio and want to be a part of doing anything that can promote or get this going. I would be happy to talk with anyone about what I can do to get this moving in a big way. I have worked with two Presidents of two countries and with Ministers of Energy of three countries. It is time that our real leaders got on the ball. I am ready to do what it takes for my children and grand children to live again in a country that makes its own choices.
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URGENT MESSAGE TO ALL AMERICANS
I have been very busy over the past 30 days getting as many people together to move the funding plan in the correct direction. We are faced with a problem that it is obvious our government does not have a clue. We can as Americans make a change. Please go to www.usasolution.org the state of Ohio is now going to take the lead in this financial and energy mess that we are in. We have been hood winked into believing that the banks need to be paid first and that energy is something that needs a long… Continue
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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: ke6cvh@yahoo.com
I would like to invite you to join me in friendship and then to discuss options.
Robert Ware
please keep me posted on how your outreach efforts are going in OH!
Count me in. I cannot find work here in Evansville, IN. You have no idea how frustrating and depressing this is -- to have knowledge, ability, integrity, drive and a focus on the future, and not be able to find decent employment.
I do not see the local business or investment community in the least bit progressive, nor are they interested in pushing the envelope or creating the types of jobs we need to stem the brain drain and retain highly educated young people to shift the demographics away from what has been a protracted trend in the opposition direction.
Every year a larger and larger percentage of our local tax base becomes senior citizens on fixed incomes. This year, our local electorate is confronting a $150 million bond issue referendum to finance the new school administrator's strategic plan to build a new high school and several other bricks and mortar projects. In the absence of a growing high-value-added job base, we simply cannot afford it.
I would like to see people in our community building wind power generators, high technology batteries for automotive applications, electrical power transmission/distribution equipment and perhaps natural gas compressors and despensing devices. However, the reality is that this is way too advanced for the ultra-conservative jerks we have running the major banks and corporations in this region of the country. It literally makes me sick.
David Coker
TRUCKS AND HAVE A FILL UP STATION WITH MOBILE UNITS TO CONVERT HOME RESIDENT GAS LINES TO FILL UP AT HOME. Do you have suggestion or can point me in the right direction
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