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Happy New Year Martin,
Last year I helped so many members of Pickens Plan learn about personal home energy plans. It's all about conservation of power, and home power generation, things I have been doing at my residence to lower my electricity costs. Send me a friend request a to add me Martin, I'd be honored to have you as a friend here.
BTW, Texas: I just posted an article link on my pickens page about Home Wind Systems in Texas. Your state's representatives, governor, and public utility commission officials are not in your corner with this "weak policy" on Net Metering. Instead they have the tables turned against green power for businesses and homeowners. Texas has created multiple sets of rules for loopholes and you have less rights than people in other states. You should read that article, important.
For months I was wondering why oil guys didn't come out and tell it like it is. Now T. Boone has, but we need to hear other guys too. For instance, there's new drilling going on in Texas, Oklahoma and some other states. How much? If every state approved drilling, would we get off the dime? I understand the governor and citizens of Alaska want to drill in ANWR. Why aren't their wishes trumpeted by Fox News? If we unleashed our drillers, how long would it take until we could get by with only buying sadditional oil from friendly countries, i.e. Norway and Brazil?
-Anthony
We conservatives are not going to shy away from a good effort just because a few dems get there day in the sun. A lot of Sunshine, Wind and Natural Gas is just what this country needs!
Thanks!
Thanks for joining the Pikens Plan community of energy independence thinkers just like you. We need you!
Just wanted to share with you some ideas I have been thinking about on our energy policy options.
Key Policy Recommendations for a Cleaner, Greener Energy Future
* Provide multiyear tax incentives for renewable-energy production and energy-efficiency projects.
* Set national mandates that would require utilities to get at least 20 percent of their electricity from wind, solar and geothermal energy by 2020.
* Add and updating the building code to require energy-efficiency measures in the construction of new buildings and the renovation of existing buildings, and setting a goal to reduce buildings' energy use 50 percent by 2030.
* Set prices for carbon-dioxide emissions and creating a program that caps emissions from different industries and allowing companies to trade emissions allowances.
* Upgrade and expanding the nation's electric grid to enable it to support electric cars and the transport and storage of renewable energy.
* Provide incentives for utilities to invest in energy-efficiency technologies.
* Increase the fuel efficiency of cars and trucks and investing more money in private-public partnerships that would develop transportation systems that rely on little or no oil, such as electric cars.
* Provide incentives to consumers and small businesses to buy plug-in hybrid cars and alternative fuels, including natural-gas-powered cars.
* Invest more federal dollars in cleantech research and development, including ways to capture and store carbon-dioxide emissions from coal-fired power plants.
* Speed up the process of setting aside public lands and improving the permitting process for renewable-electricity projects on public lands.
* Shift from ethanol made from corn to ethanol made from wood chips, agricultural waste and other nonfood feedstock, and encouraging a joint U.S.-Brazil partnership to turn sugar cane into ethanol in the Caribbean.
Please let me know what you think of any of these ideas and please share some of yours too. Thanks so much!
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