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6 Steps the new president can take to jump start the Green Economy and Main Street: 1. Create a domestic floor on wholesale gasoline and diesel prices, indexed to inflation, and reinvest all the tax proceeds in Energy Efficiency Projects, Grid Modernization and Expansion, a Nationwide Natural Gas Refueling Network for Trucks and Fleet Vehicles, and a vehicle rebate program targeting electrification of the transportation sector. Further declines in oil prices will endanger U.S. national security… Continue

1. We shall install LED and compact fluorescent lighting to generate Negawatts; while phasing out incandescent bulbs at 100 watts; 2. We'll switch our heavy duty trucks from diesel to Biogas, and CNG, providing energy independence, cleaner air, and less CO2; 3. We can stop development of new pulverized coal fired generation; And require higher solar thermal, PV, and wind penetration; 4. We'll phase out landfill disposal of Municipal Solid Waste, and instead promote air-free thermal gasification… Continue

Congressman, Senators, and the President are elected by the current generation of U.S. voters over the age of 18. Although they represent the majority of voters in their districts, states, and across the nation, these elected officials have no moral authority to make fiscal and other policy decisions that burden future generations of Americans (that cannot vote in today's elections) with an unsustainable tax burden required to service the accumulation of multi-trillion dollar deficits, and tens… Continue