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Lainey Howard replied to Ray Phillips's discussion 'Automotive news' in the group ENERGY PARTY

We're getting there! If we could just get that battery life up a little more...

February 19

Ray Phillips replied to Ray Phillips's discussion 'Automotive news' in the group ENERGY PARTY

This is pretty cool: scheduled for sale beginning this October, 100 mile range, all electric, somewhere between $25,000 - $40,000 in price. http://autos.yahoo.com/articles/autos_content_landing_pages/857/exclusive-aptera-2e

February 14

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Are you interested in becoming an organizer in your area?: No

Tell us about your experience with alternative energy:: I ave none, although I used to work for a company that used a lot of electricity and I often wondered how much money we could save if we had solar panels on our roof and maybe even a wind turbine or two on the premises.

What excites you about this campaign?: It's a chance to wean ourselves from foreign oil, if not all the way, at least a bit. It's also a chance to begin to clean up the environment by depending more on cleaner fuels.

What do you want to do to help?: I can volunteer to help however I can, though I'm not a good speaker or good in front of crowds.

Ray Phillips's Blog

Boycott the Mega-Banks

Maybe it's time that Americans began boycotting the big mega-banks, insurance companies and investment firms that have taken TARP funds and continued to pay out bonuses. Let's transfer our money into smaller local or regional banks, S & L's or credit unions. If you have insurance with AIG, drop it and go with someone else. The economic boycott has been used before in this country to good effect.

The problem we risk is throwing the economy into even more turmoil, putting us into an even deep… Continue

Posted on February 11, 2009 at 8:59pm —

Stimulus or Stimu-lie

The discussion over the past month or so has been how best to stimulate the economy. Democrats say spend, spend, spend our way to prosperity. Republicans say sit tight and do nothing and the markets and businesses will find a way out of the hole all by themselves. Democrats say that having the government pump money into the economy, whether it be through pork barrell projects or job creation will do the trick. Republicans say all we have to do is cut taxes (including businesses, big and small, a… Continue

Posted on February 11, 2009 at 5:00pm —

Greed

As we look around us in this world today, we watch our economic system threaten to implode and send us and the rest of the world into a depression the likes of which modern economists said was impossible because of rules and regulations put in place during the last depression. Unfortunately as we have moved farther away from the 'Great Depression,' we have had fewer and fewer people in places of power who remember what it was like so they began to dismantle the safeguards, one by one, all in the… Continue

Posted on December 23, 2008 at 11:22am — 1 Comment

What I Believe

I am just a poor ol' boy from Alabama who grew up moving around the country and therefore has been a bit freer in my thinking than many of my other southern friends. I learned a long time ago that there are many different kinds of people in this world and not all of them are going to like me, agree with me, get along with me or try to help me if I get into trouble. I am responsible for myself. This world owes me nothing, but I owe the world for the price of living in it. All that society owes me… Continue

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At 10:51am on February 8, 2009, James Everitt said…: Invite Your Friends to Watch the Video

President Obama recorded a video to speak directly to you about his economic recovery plan.

Invite your friends and family to watch the video and learn why our unprecedented challenges require immediate action.

You can even use our email contact importer to make it easy. Don't worry -- we don't hold on to any of the addresses you use.

After you watch the video, watch Gov. Tim Kaine answer questions from ordinary citizens about the plan and share your story about the economic crisis.

We're counting on you to collect the real stories of the challenges Americans are facing during this recession. We need to hear from you how the economic crisis is affecting your life and why the economic recovery plan is important to you and your community.

Once we receive your stories we will make them available to the public to show how critical it is to support the economic recovery plan.

Share your story click here.

Watch President Obama's video and share it with your friends and family:

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.

At 3:52pm on February 2, 2009, James Everitt said…: 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 faxed 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?

Stay tuned for more information on green jobs following the Middle Class Task Force’s, first meeting on February 27, 2009 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

BRIEFING ROOM: The White House provides timely and accurate information about the President's latest events and public statements. Here you'll find photos, video, and blogs, as well as proclamations, executive orders, and press releases.

At 12:30am on February 1, 2009, Victor Saylor said…: We are glad to have you with us and hope you find a way you can enjoy getting involved in the discotions on this and other issues.
Thanks
Victor

At 3:41pm on December 3, 2008, Tom Bailey said…: Hey young man;
You are in line with Boone in that we have to use everything avail to us at this moment in time. New tech is in our reach to do things smartly.
Tom

At 3:42pm on November 24, 2008, M.D.Fleming said…: Welcome Ray, Xtreme Cars and Stars

At 8:23pm on November 9, 2008, Terrence Abrams said…: Hey Ray, no intentional delay, but GS asked me to check his permission first before I give out his email address. I'll shoot him up the request and get back to you!

At 10:06am on October 17, 2008, Albert Alejandro said…: Ray I have looked at both candidets energy plan and also loooked at therre voting history as senators. Obomas plan makes more sence. He has always voted in suport of renewable energy. Mcain has no details about renewable energy because he has no plan. He ha never voted in support of renewable energy. I counted 26 votes against good energy bills. He also receives houndredds of thousands of dollors from Exxon Moble and other large oil companies.
Dont take my word for it. Go to the group Inexpensive clean energy. There I have posted many gov. links. The congress website has there voting history and a look at the bills. the government watchdog sites provide you with a look at there finances and where the money comes from. Check it out , join the group. It is non partisan. It also has info on 2009 hybrid and electric vehicles.

At 7:51am on September 19, 2008, Karen Nardella said…: Thanks, it is good to have friends. Welcome.

At 1:01pm on September 14, 2008, Linda C said…: Hi Ray,
I have been reading your comments in the discussion. Very well thought out and informative. Thank-you!

I have been on the site since day one, it's addicting. I have a group called S.O.S.
Linda C