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- Are you interested in becoming an organizer in your area?
- No
- Tell us about your experience with alternative energy:
- none
- What excites you about this campaign?
- It uses a clean, renewable energy source & reduces dependance on foreign oil. So common-sense. & hopefully will reduce demand for oil & eventually the price of gas.
- What do you want to do to help?
- I will invite my friends. I will try to contact my congressman, US rep Dan Boren.
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About Randall
I am 48 years old.
-I grew up in small town in Sheboygan County, Wisc. as the 4th of 6 children in a traditional family.
-married for 25+ years to my beautiful wife Jane
-father of 3 children, ages 22, 20, & 16
-a pastor for over 20 years
-have lived with chronic pain -fibromyalgia & spinal degeneration for 12 years. Moving to a warmer climate in '07 really helped reduce my pain level.
-a member of our local Rotary club.
-have lived in 6 states.
Things I enjoy: a good joke, a smile, an… Continue
-I grew up in small town in Sheboygan County, Wisc. as the 4th of 6 children in a traditional family.
-married for 25+ years to my beautiful wife Jane
-father of 3 children, ages 22, 20, & 16
-a pastor for over 20 years
-have lived with chronic pain -fibromyalgia & spinal degeneration for 12 years. Moving to a warmer climate in '07 really helped reduce my pain level.
-a member of our local Rotary club.
-have lived in 6 states.
Things I enjoy: a good joke, a smile, an… 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
It has been a while since we kept in touch last!
We are now over 1.2 million suporters. We will need many more if we are to beat back the damn lobbyists and special interests. Can you help with the pledges? Every American needs to sign on. With pledges we can fan out and reach so many. It is an easy ask- Boone has done the hard work. I was able to get 300 signed in the first 4 days - everyone wants to to get off of foreign oil. We may never have a golden opportunity like this again!
ARE YOU IN?
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Kim
I just left a comment in a discussion group. I would like to invite you to the group S.O.S.
Great gas country south of I-40...especially as various shale basin plays expand into the Arkoma Basin...
35 years ago there were nearly two million producing oil wells in the USA...today that number is less than 500,000...onerous regulatory enforcement compelled mandatory plugging of "shut-in" wells, nationwide...only when faced with the imminent collapse of the domestic production did the state regulators relent and recognize the ramifications of their policies...today we are reaping the results of that short sighted politically correct policy...JMHO
Onerous Oklahoma Corporation Commission regulations regarding the drilling out and replugging of old wells plugged and abandoned...in the first half of the 20th century are severely hampering new exploration and production in Oklahoma. We are being forced to plug and abandon 13 producing stripper wells because an old well "broke out" on a particular lease, rather than drill out and plug that well...we are now "shut in" and appealing a pending OCC order to find, drill out and re-plug ten older wells plugged and abandoned in the early 1920's...even after field inspection, MIT testing and OCC approval of the SWD injection system.
Please remove the shackles and handcuffs of onerous regulatory nonsense...and allow the independent producers to do what they do best....produce domestic oil and gas...JMHO
It is virtually impossible find experienced oilfield hands these days...we have work-over and drilling rigs stacked...idle and rusting for lack of experienced help.
Folks should consider hugging a Samson post instead of a scrub oak tree...LOL
drill baby drill...
Steve Summar
Thank you for the welcome.
My name is Steve. I live in nw Oklahoma. I'm also
a Rotarian. If you find a program, would you please share the information with me. Like all Clubs , we welcome good programs. my e-mail is sbs104@pldi.net
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