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- Are you interested in becoming an organizer in your area?
- Yes
- Tell us about your experience with alternative energy:
- more towards biofuels really. it seems to be futal to burn what we eat. there is a grass out there that once covered the whole central and mid-western states, as well as the southern growing areas before farming became prevalent. it will grow in marginal farmland, it is perenial, and takes little maintainence.[ fertilizer, irragation,etc.] and can be planted w/ todays equipment [planting] and 1950's equipment is suffient for cutting and bailing.
- What excites you about this campaign?
- well i'm not that old but i am from the old school i guess. no other industry relies on hope than the farmer. boy i hope it rains today. i hope we get enough sun this year. was our snow fall enough to fill the water table? i hope i can buy deisel this year. hope inspires americans. funny how we get ourselves into hope situations but we usually come out swinging. this is a country that built the 5th largest city in tennesee using 10% of the electricty used in the uu.s. in a 2 year period. hell this is popcorn. give our farmers a chance and they will respond. if even they only ;everage thier property taxes is would be worth doing. an acre here an acre there. switch grass can produce up to 1500 gallons an acre. corn 350 gallons optimum. there are several areas in the nation right now that would benifit.
- What do you want to do to help?
- anything i can.
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what is the solution?[for transportation]
i think the later. at that time and along the way we will use much less. but what i truely believe that having a total solution has to involve the production of oil since there are 250 million passenger cars and light weight trucks on the road today.
we as a nation have suppprted, protected, and rebuilt most of the civilized world twice. what should our role be today?
should we drill? should we walk? should we… Continue
Posted on December 14, 2008 at 2:41am —
"25 Barrels A Troup"
Posted on October 24, 2008 at 7:31am — 2 Comments
where is america?
we have become a society that if we don't already have enough that someone should give us more. america has always been a giving country to help the world as a whole. but our government wasn't set up to support us all. if it were it would be socialism. and that is a proven path for failure. but then aga… Continue
Posted on October 11, 2008 at 4:00am — 2 Comments
making good from bad.
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part time help
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Saturday, February 7, 2009
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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.
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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 taxed 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.
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You said on my page "wind won't blow our cars down the road and sun won't pull them"
Check out www.teslamotors.com and consider this... that car runs on electricity. The car is charged from the grid... if the grid is made up of more wind turbines, solar panels, geothermal energy, tide energy, and other renewables, then we can in fact have 100% clean cars surprisingly soon.
I think your idea is awesome! "25 BARRELS A TROUP." Please let me know what I can do to promote this.
Julie
Exactly... thats why i like pointing out that wind power will REDUCE out dependance on foreign oil. (reduce, not eliminate)
Same with solar.
And Geothermal.
And Biodiesel.
And Natural Gas.
And Conservation.
etc. etc. etc.
Keep in mind that the growing demand for these alternative energy solutions means increased research in the private sector into increasing their efficiency.... again, further reducing our dependance on foreign oil.
Who knows how long it'll take to become anywhere close to true energy indepencance, but we might as well do what we can to help at least move towards that goal.
please lets talk sometime, your way of thinking interests me.
thanks!
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