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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:
- my company installs metal roofing that is the base for photovoltaic panels
- What excites you about this campaign?
- getting rid of Arab oil and getting a grip on our energy problems. America has always been a leader in innovation and I feel we are falling behind the rest of the world because we've become complacent!!!
- What do you want to do to help?
- Spread the word, baby
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Just as surely as April and spring training are coming.... so is the next rise in fuel costs. I simply ask everyone I meet if they will sign in support of "T Boone Pickens Plan to get us off of foreign oil and onto American solutions. "
I have not met one person yet who does not want to get off of foreign oil, to save our economy, environment and national security. It is so much more that the price of fuel. I have not met one person yet who does not undersatand that. Please, go out of your comfort zone a bit and carry a petition with you. I have gathered over 160 in the last 3 weeks, by talking as I go - 10 at the gym, 3 at the hair salon, 10 at Dunkin Donuts, 8 at the bakery, 2 at the nail salon, 15 while Christmas shoping at local stores..... and so on. WE HAVE NO INFLUENCE WITHOUT NUMBERS, they are out there, we just need to gather their names.
GO SOX!
Thank you for your help Steve.
Kim
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Kim
I hope you are still here, you were one of the first folks I met back in July, when we were just a little tadpole. We have come so far.... hope you can help turn us into a shark!
Our new Congress is sworn in less than 10 days from now - they must be told loud and clear that we demand their action to reduce our dependance on foreign oil! The threat of political suicide, if they do not, is the only language of action.
WE CAN DO THIS. We need your help. THERE IS NO INFLUENCE WITHOUT NUMBERS!
Please watch the latest amazing "Boone Cam".
http://media.pickensplan.com/downloads/PP/pollingsignupsheet.pdf
Please download the petition, get them filled in and fax them back fast. If all of us do this small thing we can build this effort to millions!
http://media.pickensplan.com/downloads/PP/pollingsignupsheet.pdf
Best and Happiest!
Kim
Please let me know how it goes. If you get 100 we would be honored to have you in the 100CLUB! It is easy, Boone has done the hard work. EVERYONE wants to get off foreign oil - we just need to gther their names!
We need to keep our eye on the goal. Please get 10 signed pledges faxed in today. As Thomas Friedman states (DAILY PICKENS) only a loud and large grass roots effort will force Washington into action. The Gang of 20 has said the same thing. THE ONLY WAY TO GET A CHANGE IN AMERICAN ENERGY POLICY IS TO BUILD THIS HISTORICAL EFFORT TO UNIGNORABLE HEIGHTS. The clock is ticking- less than 75 days until INAUGURATION DAY. We must concentrate on the job at hand. PLEASE GET 10 today.
THANK YOU!
Kim
I will be at the game tonight, NY VS Red Sox...
Germany sets shining example in providing a harvest for the world, Renewable Energy Feed-In Tariff...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2007/jul/23/germany.greenbusiness
Renewable Energy Feed-In Tariff Legislation Introduced in U.S. Congress
While the Senate dawdles with one set of renewable energy incentives, four members of the House of Representatives, led by Jay Inslee (D-Washington), have introduced a new piece of legislation that everyone concerned about alternative energy in the United States really needs to watch.
Feed-In Tariff Legislation Introduced into House
The Renewable Energy Jobs and Security Act would create a feed-in tariff system of payments for small to mid-sized renewable energy suppliers (sites up to 20MW in size) similar to the one which has had such success, and has been recently expanded, in Germany.
Under a feed-in tariff system renewable electricty producers are paid a fixed, above market-rate, tariff for the electricity that is fed into the grid. The cost of this is then spread across all consumers of electricty. In Germany the estimated additional cost to the average family of three is €2 per month.
Inslee: “The feed-in tariff enacted in Germany in 2003 has helped the European nation achieve 55 percent of the world's installed solar capacity, provide 14 percent of its electricity supply from renewable sources and create at least 140,000 jobs. Similar policies also have been adopted by France, Spain and over 40 other countries, provinces and states.”
Inslee’s bill has three main components: guaranteed interconnection to the grid, long-term fixed rate contracts with electric utilities, and a rate-recovery program through a regional cost-sharing commission to minimize the impact on consumers. The bill would set technology-specific rates that utilities would pay renewable energy suppliers, that would incrementally decrease every two years for the 20 year lifespan of the tariff.
Though Inslee does not mention it, given the reports that we’ve seen recently about renewable energy reaching parity with fossil fuels, some of these rates should probably be set to depreciate more quickly than others, but overall the plan is sound.
New Direction in US Renewable Energy Promotion?
It may not seem it at first, and provided there are no demons lurking in the end pages of this bill which limit its effectiveness, this bill could dramatically change the way in which renewable energy is promoted in the United States.
Co-sponsoring the bill with Inslee are Bill Delahunt (D-Mass.), Jim McDermott (D-Wash.; no relation to post author), and Mike Honda (D-Cali.). A companion bill has not yet been introduced in the Senate.
Stay in touch Steve... take care Lynne
Would you be interested in a Picnic get together with like minded Energy Conserving People? Let me know either way. Thanks, Ted
Tough night last night for the Sox!
Are you from Boston? Great to be
working on this together.
Bruce
Please see this: An Open Letter to the President and the Congress of the United States;
Please sign this Petition...
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/STAY08/index.html
Be well,
Bruce
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