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- Are you interested in becoming an organizer in your area?
- Maybe--But Not Sure What to Organize
- Tell us about your experience with alternative energy:
- As an Agriculture Major from my college days, it has always intrigued me as to why we in the US do not explore more ways to create biofuels and develop plant materials high in natural oils and carbohydrates/cellulose/sugars that would be able to be used as either fuel sources or as intermediates in the manufacture of petroleum derived products.
- What excites you about this campaign?
- This program has common sense. Pickens has driven down the problem to the simplest terms. Move oil consumption to areas of our strengths. I grew up in West Texas and not a day goes by that the dirt is not blowing!!! Wind energy is there every single day. It's renewable, and will work day in day out.
- What do you want to do to help?
- I'm going to write Sam Johnson in Congress and ask him to get on the program. I'm going to write both Senators and ask them to support the plan also. I'm going to speak with my contemporaries and colleagues to get them thinking on the same lines.
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Happy New Year Michael,
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 Michael, 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.
Welcome aboard. I can't tell you what to organize because it appears to be specific to where you live. Your town or city may have all the right pieces in place, it probably does not.
One place you can effect the system right away is at the Daily Pickens page.There you can contact your Congress people by clicking on the big red "Contact Congress button in the upper right hand side of the page. This will let you tell all the congress people in your area and tell them that you support the Pickens plan and that you want them to. This is very important right now. They need to know that you are concerned about our over dependence on oil and that they must join us in fixing this decades old problem. This is also an excellent page to find new events and information to help you in your effort.
I am trying to get a meeting with my congressional rep and senators. I have put together a letter with others help and sent it out. I am also trying to affect my city and state zoning laws by lobbying them to change. Anything you can afford to do time wise is what is needed. This problem is big and there is no silver bullet. It will only die by the death of a thousand cuts. Each one of us has a small knife and we need to make our mark.
Each of us has to change our behavior and then change the laws, zoning and attitudes of others around us. If you need help, let me know. I will do what I can though it might not be much. I will help.
dan