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- Are you interested in becoming an organizer in your area?
- Yes
- Tell us about your experience with alternative energy:
- I've used PV previously, in government program that was too short in time but it worked very well and unfortunately the program ended and we had to remove the PV, to our dismay.
- What excites you about this campaign?
- The opportunity to save our country the cost of using foreign oil and sending huge funds overseas to not so friendly governments while becoming independent and stronger.
- What do you want to do to help?
- Anything I can to help achieve the goals of independence, jobs for americans, and security for our country.
My Opening Statement
The Pickens Plan and it’s army began early in 2008 and has spread around the country and everyday continues to grow in numbers. It is important that we add more people to create a large voice in the goal of adding alternative energy sources to our countries power requirements and reduce our dependence on oil from outside the country.
Every year huge amounts of money (an estimated 700 Billion dollars) flow out of our treasury to foreign countries and that results in a transfer of our countries wealth to others. Every year after year, this story repeats. Some of those governments are not friendly to our country others are unstable governments that often have problems that disrupt the flow of oil to our country.
By using sources of our own energy, much of it could be renewable energy, our chances of a stable U.S.A. economy is more likely. Energy that we support and promote includes the Wind that is plentiful, renewable and can create a large number of new jobs. Solar that gets it's energy from the sun is another source of power and the cost and production of equipment and installation can be by Americans for American use, with the money flowing back into our treasury, rather than to a foreign government.
Hydrogen power from Fuel Cells is identified for use in auto's and for home and business power sources and is exceptionally clean and beneficial to our environment, CNG (a form of natural gas) is proposed for the trucking industry because of it’s power capabilities, but could also be used in auto’s and heavy equipment that is used in construction and farming.
Other sources of energy that also are native based include; Geothermal, or power from the earth in the form of steam that powers electrical turbines that produce electricity, Marine based power from tides, ocean current and flow plus power from rivers is operational now. Bacteria or algae can consume and convert various elements to another source of power that is close to crude oil with less sulfur and produce refinery products that can create diesel and jet fuel and other petroleum products and also create electricity,
The list goes on and we can do anything we put our mind to.
Every year huge amounts of money (an estimated 700 Billion dollars) flow out of our treasury to foreign countries and that results in a transfer of our countries wealth to others. Every year after year, this story repeats. Some of those governments are not friendly to our country others are unstable governments that often have problems that disrupt the flow of oil to our country.
By using sources of our own energy, much of it could be renewable energy, our chances of a stable U.S.A. economy is more likely. Energy that we support and promote includes the Wind that is plentiful, renewable and can create a large number of new jobs. Solar that gets it's energy from the sun is another source of power and the cost and production of equipment and installation can be by Americans for American use, with the money flowing back into our treasury, rather than to a foreign government.
Hydrogen power from Fuel Cells is identified for use in auto's and for home and business power sources and is exceptionally clean and beneficial to our environment, CNG (a form of natural gas) is proposed for the trucking industry because of it’s power capabilities, but could also be used in auto’s and heavy equipment that is used in construction and farming.
Other sources of energy that also are native based include; Geothermal, or power from the earth in the form of steam that powers electrical turbines that produce electricity, Marine based power from tides, ocean current and flow plus power from rivers is operational now. Bacteria or algae can consume and convert various elements to another source of power that is close to crude oil with less sulfur and produce refinery products that can create diesel and jet fuel and other petroleum products and also create electricity,
The list goes on and we can do anything we put our mind to.
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http://www.biztimes.com/news/2009/2/6/innovations-racine-inventor-creates-a-better-windmill
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REMARKS OF PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA
WEEKLY ADDRESS
The White House
Saturday, February 7, 2009
Yesterday began with some devastating news with regard to our economic crisis. But I'm pleased to say it ended on a more positive note.
In the morning, we received yet another round of alarming employment figures – the worst in more than 30 years. Another 600,000 jobs were lost in January. We've now lost more than 3.6 million jobs since this recession began.
But by the evening, Democrats and Republicans came together in the Senate and responded appropriately to the urgency this moment demands.
In the midst of our greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression, the American people were hoping that Congress would begin to confront the great challenges we face. That was, after all, what last November's election was all about.
Legislation of such magnitude deserves the scrutiny that it's received over the last month, and it will receive more in the days to come. But we can't afford to make perfect the enemy of the absolutely necessary. The scale and scope of this plan is right. And the time for action is now.
Because if we don't move swiftly to put this plan in motion, our economic crisis could become a national catastrophe. Millions of Americans will lose their jobs, their homes, and their health care. Millions more will have to put their dreams on hold.
Let's be clear: We can't expect relief from the tired old theories that, in eight short years, doubled the national debt, threw our economy into a tailspin, and led us into this mess in the first place. We can't rely on a losing formula that offers only tax cuts as the answer to all our problems while ignoring our fundamental economic challenges – the crushing cost of health care or the inadequate state of so many schools; our addiction to foreign oil or our crumbling roads, bridges, and levees.
The American people know that our challenges are great. They don't expect Democratic solutions or Republican solutions – they expect American solutions.
From the beginning, this recovery plan has had at its core a simple idea: Let's put Americans to work doing the work America needs done. It will save or create more than 3 million jobs over the next two years, all across the country – 16,000 in Maine, nearly 80,000 in Indiana – almost all of them in the private sector, and all of them jobs that help us recover today, and prosper tomorrow.
Jobs that upgrade classrooms and laboratories in 10,000 schools nationwide – at least 485 in Florida alone – and train an army of teachers in math and science.
Jobs that modernize our health care system, not only saving us billions of dollars, but countless lives.
Jobs that construct a smart electric grid, connect every corner of the country to the information superhighway, double our capacity to generate renewable energy, and grow the economy of tomorrow.
Jobs that rebuild our crumbling roads, bridges and levees and dams, so that the tragedies of New Orleans and Minneapolis never happen again.
It includes immediate tax relief for our struggling middle class in places like Ohio, where 4.5 million workers will receive a tax cut of up to $1,000. It protects health insurance and provides unemployment insurance for those who've lost their jobs. And it helps our states and communities avoid painful tax hikes or layoffs for our teachers, nurses, and first responders.
That's what is at stake with this plan: putting Americans back to work, creating transformative economic change, and making a down payment on the American Dream that serves our children and our children's children for generations to come.
Americans across this country are struggling, and they are watching to see if we're equal to the task before us. Let's show them that we are. And let's do whatever it takes to keep the promise of America alive in our time.
Thank you.
Dear Friends,
Email Your Senator Today!
I am concerned about the high percentage of our oil that 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 in the Senate.
I need you to contact your U.S. Senators to tell them to support the Pickens Plan. Click here to send an email today.
Read the full text of the bill H.R 1>>>
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.pdf
P.S. Savings bonds could be help in economic crisis.
While Washington tries to "fix" the banking and Wall Street mess created by subprime "gotcha" adjustable rate mortgages defaulting en masse, many of us are looking for a safer place to put at least some of our retirement, college funds, etc.
And we also want our country to become more energy-independent and our crumbling infrastructure repaired. But with things as they are, how can we accomplish these three objectives? A new form of U.S. Treasury savings bonds could be the answer.
Without U.S. saving bonds, we wouldn't have been able to supply our troops and allies like we did in World War II. If the U.S. Treasury issued energy independence and infrastructure savings bonds that paid an interest rate about 3 percent greater than the annualized FED rate adjusted for inflation, only be redeemable on their anniversary date(s), and what they pay is not taxed when they are redeemed at maturity, all three of these objectives can be achieved without any increase in taxes, especially if these funds were only employed as 1-to-2 matching funds.
Such bonds could increase employment enough to even reduce our taxes. Pass this idea on to your friends and then the politicians.
Renew_America_Bonds.pdf
Discussion link: Funding Energy Independence?
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Thank you and I appreciate the welcome!
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
We really need to ramp it up fast! The ONLY thing that we can control is to build our numbers to make sure that Boone's efforts are not for naught. He is doing everything possible to bring light to the problem, work his contacts, spend his money and finally get this right. At 83 he is working at a presidential candidates pace! WE absolutely must support him with huge numbers. Without the big numbers there is no influence.
If every one of our 1,4 million people brought 20 folks to the table we would be 30 million overnight. I have greeted tens of thousands of new supporters here that say they will do everything and anything to help. Yet, we have only added 10,000 new supporters since before Christmas. I am telling you, unless we can get huge numbers this wil not happen the way we need it to. The lobbyists and special interests and political insiders will derail it to suit their individual needs.... or pockets.
We have this ONE golden opportunity. Will we do it? Our forefathers had to bear arms. We just need to manually input the names of 20 people who support this plan. WE ALL know 20 people who want to get off foreign oil. For those who do not, the rest of us need to pull a little harder. I have brought in hundreds, I know that it is not difficult.
Please try to do this today. We all need to. Please encourage others to do the same.
WE CAN DO THIS. Thoughts?
Best
Kim
thanks
tracy
greener living
texas
Yes, it will be fine to do. If you have any question, always feel free to contact me. Also there is additional information on the website - www.hydrolance.net - Go to site directory and scroll down to #8 Alternate Fuel & Systems where there are several links of interest.
Thank you for your interest,
Kind regards,
Walter
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