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Hi Tim!


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Hi Tim, I have been pushing for the sell of US Treasury "Energy Independence Savings Bonds". Savings bonds are normally purchased in $25 increments. This gives a way for just abouny American to tighten their belts just a bit by skipping a meal at McDonalds or Pizza Hut and buying a RE savings bond to support a renewable energy project and save money at the same time for themselves. I need help pushing this project, I've faxed and emailed many in Congress/Senate already.If you agree with this plan please consider passing to other people in your district as it will be a great tool to get funding for PickensPlan projects. This is a way to help and give tools to all of us for getting more RE projects started. My email is ke6cvh@yahoo.com. Here is a copy of a fax sent to Nancy Pelosi the other day:
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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

Here is a post I made last February. I believe we are now taking the country back

Monday, February 25, 2008
All We Have Left Is Scenery
Yesterday, I cross country skied out my road through maples and pines then farther. The northern sun was muted gold against a translucent blue sky and I saw no one. In over an hour only three cars along the distant roads and not one human-being. All I meet were deer and turkeys and a hound, as I skied through miles of forests, orchards, and farmer’s fields, following snowmobile tracks leading from one natural gas well to the next, each barren, alone and silent, only one small sign.. Well A, Well B, Well C. The snow glittered...sparkled in the light...my backdrop, the frozen Torch lake and then miles of lake Michigan beyond. This journey cost me nothing but a lack of economic opportunity.

I worry for those in cities with their opportunity now going-gone or dwindling. Those who will soon have no jobs, or those who have been forced into three jobs to provide the income which use to come from one... Those who have been so easily fragmented by Carl Rove and his sort. Those who have no beauty and only Oprah to compensate them.

The Republicans, the Bushes of our nation have made Americans so afraid, and the Skinner box of their lives is making them crazy. It is much as Herman Goring said (to paraphrase) at Nuremberg before he committed suicide. “It is easy to get a nation to go to war, just tell the people they are under attack”.

I think of the wealthy enclaves, like the ruined Aspen, with its mountains still intact, but with most of its beautiful people gone, replaced by an immense airport and lines and lines of jets. And of places like the Yellowstone Club in Montana with its private golf course, its private ski lifts, and its private acres, its well trained guards, and hidden cameras. Bill Gates has a house there, he and others like him, and they will not even let the average citizen enter to drive about their miles of roads...roads carved out of national forest... The people’s forest, old logging roads, which now are private.

I wonder what happened to America over the last forty years. I cannot find the date when it became so bad that the elites felt so entitled that after fleecing the nation blind they also felt the need to steal the scenery. We have returned or are returning to the Gilded Age, and this is not good, not good at all. When Rockefeller was worth a billion and a daily wage was but a dollar. The people hated Rockefeller then, will we soon begin to hate the same men of today? It is possible but today we have Television.

Buck up, America, Buck up and take your country back, take it back from those who try to divide you and fragment you with abortion, and gays, and guns and terror. Buck up, don’t fall for it, or they may get their wish. And then you will be like those I saw sitting about Old Faithful last summer, waiting in a parking lot to see a spectacle that was no spectacle at all. A sickly geyser suffering for V*****, when just miles away exists the Yellowstone club, with its land much more rugged and beautiful....land that you will never know of. Land that once belonged to you!!