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Note: Of course I don't expect you to read all of this Rodger! (I just got carried away :) By all means, please feel free to skip everything except for the first and last paragraph...you might want to read those..
Here on the "PP" we have come together and circled our wagons to join with T. Boone. We're working and helping to push Boone's viable plan to get our country independent from foreign oil. It is truly a worthwhile cause and it is most definitely not a case of just doing something because we don't have anything else better to do. Accomplishing energy independence is imperative because it is not only about our survival potential in the short-term, but perhaps more importantly, it is the long-term potential consequence in consideration for those generations that follow.
The question now is..."What can I do to help?"
If you haven't already, you will soon be receiving welcomes from other members and they will be giving you a volume of info on what, where and how to help push the PP and how to get around in this vast online community. That being noted, I want you to know that what I am going to direct your attention to will probably not be coming from any of the others.
On the 17th of December 08' at 11:23 am T. Boone Pickens emailed the PP army. Within the body of that email he stated the following:
"We use more energy to heat, cool and light our homes and offices than we do to power our factories or even to drive our cars and trucks. Our country can save over 1 million barrels a day just by making our homes and offices more efficient. That's 1 million barrels we won't have to import from overseas. That's a big step in the right direction."
-Boone
So while we may not all be able to go out and directly get involved with wind farms of CNG (compressed natural gas) conversions....we do happen to live in structures that are (in most cases) consuming far more energy than is necessary. Therefore, by causing our existing housing to be more energy efficient and by insisting that any new housing be constructed so as to be super energy efficient...we can collectively effect a dramatic impact for the cause of energy independence and a blow against adverse climate change. And, very importantly, it does not have to take a long time. We can begin right now! You see, it is not only about gaining energy independence for our country, it is also very much about gaining energy independence for the individual and for helping to usher in a lifestyle, across the breadth and depth of the general population, that is SUSTAINABLE over the long-term.
Because none of can do it alone...four key concepts to keep forefront in our thoughts are....collaboration, partnership, mental flexibility and integrity. The multi-dimensional and multi-layered task that we have at hand is not only gargantuan in scope but it is deadly (a potential civilization killer). In order to overcome such a magnitude of adversity we are going to have to come together, seek out a point of common agreement and direct our collective energy and effort in an unified manner to accomplish a clearly defined goal. If we remain disbursed in our intentions and attentions and individuate form one another and behave as independent and arrogant tribes....then it is inevitable that we will lose across the boards. If anyone finds this difficult to accept then I invite them to look at our world history and note the many civilizations that have already come and gone. What makes our current civilization any different? ( never say never and never say it is not going to happen here or it is not going to happen to me because it does happen and it happens every day). The reality we have at hand is the result of so many of us insisting that "it is my way or the highway." Or, assuming the attitude of, "I'll just go and watch this play out from up in the bleachers." And, as I think we will agree...the reality we are now embroiled in really SUCKS!
Things have a way of moving slowly until it is too late. And at that point it IS too late.
I strongly encourage you to join the SEE Super Energy Efficient Housing for Existing and New Homes Group. And if you don't join, I encourage you to at least drop in every now and then and check out the develpments.
Thank You for your time and attention. Oh, by the way, there is a small x up in the right hand corner of this comment. Click the x and you can delete this comment from your comment wall.
Monte