Meeting with Rep Jay Inslees office

I had a hour long meeting today with Celina Cunningham of Jay Inslee's office today. He is my local Congressional rep. The meeting went very well. I am happy to say that Rep Inslee has goals that in many ways are similar to ours and the Pickens Plan. A large focus of his legislative agenda is to further Alternative Energy and Sustainability.
For those of you who are not aware, he is on several key committees around energy. They include

House Committee on Energy and Commerce
Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality
Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming

A large amount of his legislative focus is on changing the course that America is on. So I went in to the meeting with good feelings. I spent about the first 15 minutes talking with her about the generation of the document you all helped me write. See the Communication Group. Serch for my name for the letter. I started it but we all worked on making it good. She was very impressed with it. She stated that it was clear in what I, we , were after form them and that makes it easy to work with. So make sure you all are clear and concise when you write your reps and senators.

Anyway, the conversation then turned to you, my friends on the Pickens group. She was surprised. I told her how I was drawn here by the fact that is was a community all talking about energy. When I told here that we broke 152,000 this weekend her eyes got wide. She wrote that down. I think we might have their attention.

So she was interested in how we are for the most part self regulating, self organized and motivated. I explained that TB Pickens supplied the forum and let it grow on its own. I expalined how the focus is energy and not politics. Very good conversation. I think they are very surprised that this is taking off like it is.

She proceeded to tell me about about the push on his and other members part for a Germany Style Feed-in tariff part of the "Renewable Energy Jobs and Security Act. This lead to more discussion on other initiatives and I got a copy of a summery of the
H.R. 2809: New Apollo Energy Act of 2007

I will get the summery in the morning and post it. All in all It was an excellent meeting. I proposed a townhall meeting and she is going to check with the scheduling person for it. I will let you all know as soon as I do. Lets keep the ball rolling.

Dan

Here is a copy of the executive summery.

NewApolloII_sec-by-sec_FINAL.doc

Tags: energy, government, legislation, meeting, organizing

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Comment by james weatherwax on September 12, 2008 at 12:33pm: dan i am new at this can u help me out with getting info too help me give too our senators reps great job with your out come jim

Comment by James M Query on September 9, 2008 at 8:34pm: Indiana seems ok for Pickens Plan. How about meetins here!

Comment by dan on September 9, 2008 at 5:38pm: Lawrence,
This is an excellent point of discussion. I too have pondered the pluses and minuses of a comprehensive bill. If you go the several little bills, you run the risk of lots of potential loop holes. If you look at a comprehensive bill, you can, I would hope, craft a bill that will address the potential loopholes. Just a thought. All I know is that we have to fix a lot of things and however it gets done, it has to get done.

dan

Comment by dan on September 9, 2008 at 2:06pm: Lawrence,
I got the following explanation to your concerns.

"Jay would like to see some of the offsets passed into law that were
included in the House version of the Energy Independence and Security
Act (EISA). The House passed version of EISA included provisions that
would have repealed about $22 billion of oil and gas subsidies that were
designed to offset the cost of supporting a variety of energy efficiency
and renewable energy tax incentives. These proposed incentives would
have included a four-year extension of the of the renewable energy
electricity production tax credit. Most of those provisions were
stripped out by the Senate and were not included in the final bill.
Long story short, the Congressman would like to see more tax incentives
for renewable energy. If this is confusing, just let me know. Versions
of EISA are available online if you want more info. "

Let me know if this helps

dan

Comment by dan on September 9, 2008 at 11:48am: Lawrence
Lawernce,
I have a feeling that that is partially connected to encouraging alternative fuels and energy generation. Oil companies have gotten 100 years of "incentives" and maybe it is a time for Solar and Wind to get them. I will ask for clarification on this front.

Dan

Comment by Richard Roberts on September 9, 2008 at 7:09am: Good Job. I'm sending notice of this to this to my friends

Comment by Chris Miller on September 8, 2008 at 10:28pm: SWEET! Way to go! Thank you so much for doing this and sharing and inspiring us all to follow your most excellent example! (it looks like the linked energy act is not moving forward and is kind of dated but it sure does have a lot of interesting things in it to read!~)

Comment by Carol on September 8, 2008 at 10:04pm: Dan, Your the man! Outstanding work buddy! And its encouraging that these folks are becoming aware of the grassroots groundswell that is happening. You've gone the extra mile and I know it willl make a difference. Thanks! Carol