http://action.ThisIsReality.org/coenbrothers - the introductory joke.
I have purchased www.OttawaCanada.ws It is presently being used to promote my down line because I have no web site ready. It costs me $10 a month but if a few people also adopt Global International Web Sites for their URL I may even make a $. This is a Google effort. You know, the outfit that is a virtual fortress in the virtual world. They are a source of information and they know where all my friends are hiding. They can also take care of banking and communications with Google talk. It may be what we have been waiting for.
I am with you on what you have stated on protectionism . Its had to start a working cell of people that want to be patriots since people are still in the whats in it for me phase right now but soon most likely by mid year people will be on the streets looking for new leadership and that should be the beginning of the end of government for and of Big company CEOs . We will see and most likely sooner thatn later .
Like Mike Kendall's Energy Bond concept it is a painless and common sense way for Americans to contribute to solving the complex problems of Energy Independence, National Security, Economic Growth and Environmental Protection.
As with Energy Bonds, this suggestion for providing incentives for K-12 education in conservation may be the best kind of investments we can make.
If you beleive the idea has merit please spread the word to you network.
President Obama recorded a video to speak directly to you about his economic recovery plan.
Invite your friends and family to watch the video and learn why our unprecedented challenges require immediate action.
You can even use our email contact importer to make it easy. Don't worry -- we don't hold on to any of the addresses you use.
After you watch the video, watch Gov. Tim Kaine answer questions from ordinary citizens about the plan and share your story about the economic crisis.
We're counting on you to collect the real stories of the challenges Americans are facing during this recession. We need to hear from you how the economic crisis is affecting your life and why the economic recovery plan is important to you and your community.
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Yesterday began with some devastating news with regard to our economic crisis. But I'm pleased to say it ended on a more positive note.
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.
But by the evening, Democrats and Republicans came together in the Senate and responded appropriately to the urgency this moment demands.
In the midst of our greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression, the American people were hoping that Congress would begin to confront the great challenges we face. That was, after all, what last November's election was all about.
Legislation of such magnitude deserves the scrutiny that it's received over the last month, and it will receive more in the days to come. But we can't afford to make perfect the enemy of the absolutely necessary. The scale and scope of this plan is right. And the time for action is now.
Because if we don't move swiftly to put this plan in motion, our economic crisis could become a national catastrophe. Millions of Americans will lose their jobs, their homes, and their health care. Millions more will have to put their dreams on hold.
Let's be clear: We can't expect relief from the tired old theories that, in eight short years, doubled the national debt, threw our economy into a tailspin, and led us into this mess in the first place. We can't rely on a losing formula that offers only tax cuts as the answer to all our problems while ignoring our fundamental economic challenges – the crushing cost of health care or the inadequate state of so many schools; our addiction to foreign oil or our crumbling roads, bridges, and levees.
The American people know that our challenges are great. They don't expect Democratic solutions or Republican solutions – they expect American solutions.
From the beginning, this recovery plan has had at its core a simple idea: Let's put Americans to work doing the work America needs done. It will save or create more than 3 million jobs over the next two years, all across the country – 16,000 in Maine, nearly 80,000 in Indiana – almost all of them in the private sector, and all of them jobs that help us recover today, and prosper tomorrow.
Jobs that upgrade classrooms and laboratories in 10,000 schools nationwide – at least 485 in Florida alone – and train an army of teachers in math and science.
Jobs that modernize our health care system, not only saving us billions of dollars, but countless lives.
Jobs that construct a smart electric grid, connect every corner of the country to the information superhighway, double our capacity to generate renewable energy, and grow the economy of tomorrow.
Jobs that rebuild our crumbling roads, bridges and levees and dams, so that the tragedies of New Orleans and Minneapolis never happen again.
It includes immediate tax relief for our struggling middle class in places like Ohio, where 4.5 million workers will receive a tax cut of up to $1,000. It protects health insurance and provides unemployment insurance for those who've lost their jobs. And it helps our states and communities avoid painful tax hikes or layoffs for our teachers, nurses, and first responders.
That's what is at stake with this plan: putting Americans back to work, creating transformative economic change, and making a down payment on the American Dream that serves our children and our children's children for generations to come.
Americans across this country are struggling, and they are watching to see if we're equal to the task before us. Let's show them that we are. And let's do whatever it takes to keep the promise of America alive in our time.
I WOULD ASK HIM TO ENCOURAGE HIS MEMBERS TO TAKE ACTION BY REDUCING THEIR OWN POWER CONSUMPTION RATHER THAN TALK ABOUT IT. THINK OF THE IMPACT IF 75% OF THE PP WERE TO REDUCE THEIR ELECTRIC BILL BY JUST 25% ACTION SPEAKS LOUDER THAN WORDS. I ALSO BELIEVE THAT WE SHOULD ASK THOSE WHO ARE MOTIVATED TO INSTALL A RENEWABLE ENERGY SYSTEM. THIS WOULD GO A LONG WAY TO DECENTRALIZING POWER THUS MAKING AMERICA SAFER.
Something I am working locally to be incorporated into our local code, but would have an enormous impact nationally, is to turn off all unnecessary exterior lighting. I am suggesting all parking lot lighting after the close of business, street lighting etc., Our local Home Depot, has its lot lighting turn off when the manager enters the security code at the close of business. Lows does not, nor any other retail businesses. When you fly up the east coast on a clear night you can really see what I am talking. This could be part of an energy management mandate legislation package. Doug
Thanks for your concern regarding my leaving the discussions regarding the energy savings bonds. Please understand I am not mad. I do not get mad...it is counter productive. However, the discussions regarding that issue have been drifting into areas that have nothing to do with the task at hand. I would hope that members could find a better forum for those discussions. I am still very active in the Pickens Plan and wish you all the best of luck in your discussions regarding more philisopical issues, but I must delegate my time carefully. I will choose to work on the transformation of our energy issues in a more task related way. Thanks for your concerrn.
I started a message in reply to your rebuttal of the Energy Savings Bonds but with fat finders somehow hit SEND before complete. Not of consequence to complete - a tangent about do-gooders like Jimmy Carter made to look like fools by Arabs WITH IRAN HOSTAGE crisis - as payback for Camp David meddling in Arab affairs - Saddat was later assassinated in Egypt for agreeing to peace efforts by Begin and Carter!
Hi ML. Monte suggested I contact you. I have a small group to discuss ways to help idea people to get their ideas to the prototype stage. This may be the other side of what you are doing with investments. Please check it out and let me know what you think.
I am concerned about the high percentage of our oil that comes from foreign countries. Even in December, as the economy was contracting, we imported nearly 70 percent of the oil we used and paid over $19 billion for it.
I am very interested in the aspects of The American Renewal and Reinvestment Act (H.R. 1) that include the promotion of alternative energy - wind and solar; the building out of a 21st century electrical transmission grid; and incenting trucking companies to upgrade from trucks running on foreign diesel to those running on domestic natural gas.
A Department of Energy study showed that developing our capacity to produce wind energy would not only replace 20 percent of the electricity we now produce using coal-burning plants, but would add 138,000 jobs in the first year and more than 3.4 million over a ten-year span.
Also, if we switch just 350,000 of the 6.5 million heavy trucks running on the nation's Interstate Highways to domestic natural gas from imported diesel, we could cut our oil imports by over five percent. In December alone that would have kept nearly $1 billion from being shipped off shore.
I hope you will join me in supporting these components of the Pickens Plan as H.R. 1 moves toward final passage in the Senate
P.S. Savings bonds could be help in economic crisis.
While Washington tries to "fix" the banking and Wall Street mess created by subprime "gotcha" adjustable rate mortgages defaulting en masse, many of us are looking for a safer place to put at least some of our retirement, college funds, etc.
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 faxed 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.
Such bonds could increase employment enough to even reduce our taxes. Pass this idea on to your friends and then the politicians.
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Hi Mickey, Thanks for the comment and friendship. It is still possible to buy savings bonds but there is no marketing department to advertise them with commercials or drives to encourage citizens to buy them. I hope to change this. I also hope to change the fact that we do not know where the money goes when we buy savings bonds. I believe a purchaser of a savings bonds is purchasing and believing in the United States of Americal and by doing so should be able to choose the program that is supported, example would be the WWII war bond program that allowed us to fight for our freedom when called upon. I believe an instrument that allows us as individual citizens to individually choose to contribute towards the cuase President Obama and T. Boone has asked us to by buying a bond to support a chosen Energy Independence Renewable Energy project is a tool that will be undeniable spread like wildfire amongst the citizens. Please, at your discretion, encourage others to subscribe as friends to my page so that I can exchange thoughts and suggestions with them. Also, please do not hesitate to fax the Congressional Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming that is chaired by Congressman Markey. Their is a fax number, web page, and telephone number specifically for the committee. I also encourage contacting the white house staff web page that allows 500 words for the President and Vice President. There is also a fax number for the same. If just one of our faxes makes it through and the President reads it, there is a possibility he may contact the Secretary of Treasury as well as the house and Senate to direct a solution towards a "Energy Independence Savings Bond Program" through US Treasury bonds.
Keep the faith and thanks again,
Sincerely and with Respect,
Mike Kendall
Hi ML Hayes, Here is a way to help and give tools to all of us for getting more RE projects started. 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 about any 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 project. I need help pushing this project, I've faxed and emailed many in Congress/Senate already. My email is ke6cvh@yahoo.com. Here is a copy of a fax sent to Nancy Pelosi yesterday:
27FEB09
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:
Dear Ron,
Agreed, storing carbon in useful products is a utilitarial form of carbon sequestration. As long as we don't store more than is needed for atmospheric replenishment, it is a devine deal. I am not qualified to argue the facts surrounding the volume of carbon that traditional residential (woodframe) construction affords the global society.
In Houston, TX we don't have issues that you have in California. I've been to San Diego (Southern California) quite a number of times, my impression is that the natural cycle has been totally interrupted by the over population of the region. This is true for a lot of other regions across our nation. It is also the very point that needs to be highlighted in any discussion about alternative component utilization.
If you really want to be frightened, look down the barrel of a Hurricane coming in off the Gulf at 20 MPH. It can take two to three weeks or it can pickup up speed and be on top of you in a heartbeat. I am not arguing fire versus water/wind but essence of possibility to prepare with relation to support from the federal government.
You can't really prepare for climate changed enhanced storms such as Katrina & Ike. You can ratchet up standards to a point that no one can afford to live in certain areas, but then we Texans would all have to live in or North of Dallas to be safe. I believe that controlled burning in the non-windy seasons would help you guys in California, but you'd have to fire Arnold to get that program initialized.
I used the term 'plastics' to get you to present the opposing argument in writing. Thank you, I could not have done a better job. My appreciation is sincere because we need to put all the facts on the table to provide transparency to other readers. I hope you appreciate this strategy and forgive me for applying it herein. All of the plastic that you are referring to isn't the same stuff of which I am referring to. The technology of plastics that do not off-gass and can be recycled has advanced to the point that it is ready to provide ind necessary to give biology (wood) a much needed break. The useful life of these products far exceed wood, approaching the life of stone. Of course these hybrid plastics are blended with minerals and designed to offer superior durability, insulating features and recyclable.
According to some scientist, this "Pacific Raft" is a source of raw product for the finish goods we need to consider manufacturing. We need to determine how harvesting the plastic could afford these communities a source of employment and income. Plastics is a poor term for describing these 'Manmade Materials.' What we need is to integrate the waste that we can recover into sturdy structural members that do multipurpose tasks in providing habitat for humanity. A global standard for housing doesn't exist because regional materials are used to produce the product. Petroleum byproducts that are commonly used in the production of plastics are discarded because their isn't a local or regional market. Don't you see something in this?
We can overcome the problems with plastics but we need to consider the idea before we discard it. The world needs affordable housing for low income persons, but we can no longer deplete and depend on nature simultaneously. Many thanks to you for the information on the Paulowinia tree. I am intrigued with the idea of carbon sequestration by such means. Your advice is greatly appreciated.
I have studied many of the leading scientists' publications on global warming, climate change and atmospheric pollution. To be honest, most of it is far to technical for solo interpretation. With the help of a few professors at some regional universities, I have formed a theory that I think coincides with the general thought on the subject. My observation is that heat is the greater pollution in our environment. As you may recall heat can be introduced to mass in a number of methods, (chemical reactions, nuclear reactions, electromagnetic dissipation, and friction). However, the transfer of any formation of this energy in one form of mass to another form of mass can only be accomplished by one of three methods. Radiation, conduction or convection are specific methods by which we observe the transfer of energy as hot moving towards cold. I reason that if this is so, then the introduction of more particles of greater density (dust, other particulates and certain inert gases) in to the atmosphere would result in more friction in addition to greater weight upon the tectonic plates of the land masses and the oceans. Of these changes, I suspect that the greater problem is the increased weight of the atmosphere on the geography. The heat radiating from the sun that gets greenhoused may very well contribute to the dramatic weather changes, but the changes to patterns of wind, ocean current, and glacier also add up to a redistribution of the weight of the atmosphere which in turn could be an indication of increased seismic and violence of winds forced to find new paths of least resistance as a result of solar heating.
I believe that much of the observations of earth from space give us a clue as to the changes that we are inflicting on the planet. Just as there are no single (silver bullet) solutions to the global problem, there are likewise no single causes. I was taught that all the water (and by extension, every other element on the chart), that we have on this planet was here from the seventh day of creation is still here with exception to the few thousand tons, we have launched into space in the past fifty years or so. My rational leans towards the fact that we can change the form of elements by purifying them, combining them and modifying their molecular structure, that is creating manmade materials that do not exist in nature. Such items have differing capacities for absorbing and releasing heat depending on the method of heat gain. This tells me that pollution such as CO2 could be a cause of global warming by greenhouse phenomena, but it is certainly a cause of global atmospheric pollution in terms of additional particulate population and thus increased weight thus increased conduction contributing to increased convections.
The incidence of increased volcanic activity seems to come in waves. Perhaps this is an adjusting mechanism in nature to correct imbalances or simply (and more likely) a reaction to the settling of particulates back to the surface of the continents and ocean floors. From what I can observe, the Arctic and Antarctic are the cheif particulate filters as we have noted that the 'permanent' ice in these temperate zones contains a great deal of trapped dust and other debris from volcanic eruptions down through the eons.
The number and severity of potential eruptions in an unknown, but I sure somebody with a super computer could calculate the amount of particulate capacity our atmosphere might sustain before it started raining rocks.
Please, don't confuse political strategy with that of survival. Dr. Chu faces an uphill battle and he will be 18 months to two years just getting the house in order.
The description of our global climate as delicate is understating the case. Resilient is an additional term that applies to the climate, but infinite doesn't come into the picture. International politics are reshaping the future of commercial activity around the world. These policies are being dictated by corporations that have no national allegiances . . . not to Americans or any other nationality. By extension, the excuse of protecting shareholder value is be used to figuratively attack Mother Nature. I won't go into this conversation but I will say that Obama's promise of hope will require some serious patience on our part.
History seems to be on our side, but the one element in the equation of man's contribution to the planet's evolution that we can't account in population. There have never been as many humans on the planet as there are today. Since we know that we were never as mechanized as we are today, consider the following; the industrialization of China over the last ten to fifteen years was the equivalent to adding another United States to the community. There is a ratio of 1000:1 Chinese to Americans so there is room for at least 3000 more US economies in that nation alone. Then there's India and neither nation is interested in waiting for us to step aside so they can obtain our level of comfort. through inefficiencies. I calculate that to give 80% of the world's population the same lifestyle as the average American, it would take about 6000 x the current rate of US consumption and waste. We current use 1/4 the oil and we waste about 20% of that. It is an illusion that this can be done using the presently available resources and materials without not only destroying ourselves but sterilizing the planet.
Hayes; You must be missing something. I only send messages after posting something new on our group. I have 15 useful and insightful links and 10 very informative discussions. Only after posting something I send a message to the group and than I send a message to my freinds. I am sorry if you are receiving the same messages twice since you are a freind and a member. Not all my freinds are members and not all members are freinds and I want them all to benefit from the new info posted. When I send a message to my freinds that I have already sent to the group I wil cross you out of the send to list so you won't receive the same one twice.
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Mickey,
It is good to hear from you I hope your Thanksgiving holiday was a good one. Though I look forward to your insights into the financial world I must take pause in your hypothesis on compressed natural gas and our collective energy future.
My first point is that T. Boone has long since modified his plan for CNG to fleet vehicles, and though the United States does possess large natural gas reserves we still import a significant amount of the natural gas we use today. I have seen many estimates on the imported oil reduction if just fleet vehicles converted to CNG; I think the most reliable rests at about a 20% reduction in our foreign oil dependency.
Second, solar PV collectors are only one type of solar collection. There are types of solar collection that do not depend on sunshine but the gathering of solar radiation; please visit this page: http://push.pickensplan.com/forum/topic/show?id=2187034%3ATopic%3A830692
However wind power, ocean power, solar power, and geothermal power combined will not answer our collective energy needs.
Third, every year Americans generate huge volumes of biodegradable waste that has to be disposed of. This waste is one major key to our energy independence and a cleaner environment. Methane gas is produced when ever animal or plant matter decays. Methane is CH4, one carbon atom to 4 hydrogen atoms; hydrogen is the most abundant resource on our planet. Recovery of hydrogen from our dumps and waste recycling plants is imperative, for the following reasons: it generates fuel that our civilization requires, as a result of hydrogen recovery from human, animal, and plant waste we actually generate a highly desirable soil fertilizer that regenerates our planet’s ability to produce vegetation, and third we no longer squander valuable land and resources “dumping” the waste. Lastly natural gas is primarily methane that has been generated from millennia of decay from the time of the dinosaurs. It would seem to me that if we can produce our own fuel from the waste of our daily lives rather than drill for it that we have solved our own problems.
Fourth, our own “big three” automakers currently manufacture and sell (in countries other than our own) turbo diesels that have fuel efficiencies in excess of 50 MPG, that can utilize ammonia as a fuel versus fossil fuel or CNG. This would be the link we need to eliminate our foreign oil dependency in less than 10 years, since the entire American auto and truck fleet is essentially replaced on a rate of 20% a year. For a better explanation of ammonia and turbo diesels please contact Dr. Paul Curto on the Pickens Plan. This final point is probably the most important as it provides immediate solutions to several problems our country now faces; the technology not only exists it is being utilized by our automakers else where in the world, it achieves more quickly and more dramatically the fuel efficiency and carbon reduction we so desperately need, and it provides a path way to produce our way out of the economic recession.
The other forms of clean renewable energy still need to be passionately and decisively pursued as they will ultimately be a necessary part of a total switch to our clean energy needs. We will also still need to address the state of our current energy grid which is sadly inefficient and out dated, allow for the gradual phasing out of coal fired and nuclear power generation, and redesign of buildings and processes that conserve energy and reduced pollution.
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I have purchased www.OttawaCanada.ws It is presently being used to promote my down line because I have no web site ready. It costs me $10 a month but if a few people also adopt Global International Web Sites for their URL I may even make a $. This is a Google effort. You know, the outfit that is a virtual fortress in the virtual world. They are a source of information and they know where all my friends are hiding. They can also take care of banking and communications with Google talk. It may be what we have been waiting for.
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Please check out this new group, your thoughts would be much appreciated.
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Like Mike Kendall's Energy Bond concept it is a painless and common sense way for Americans to contribute to solving the complex problems of Energy Independence, National Security, Economic Growth and Environmental Protection.
As with Energy Bonds, this suggestion for providing incentives for K-12 education in conservation may be the best kind of investments we can make.
If you beleive the idea has merit please spread the word to you network.
Leslie
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REMARKS OF PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA
WEEKLY ADDRESS
The White House
Saturday, February 7, 2009
Yesterday began with some devastating news with regard to our economic crisis. But I'm pleased to say it ended on a more positive note.
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.
But by the evening, Democrats and Republicans came together in the Senate and responded appropriately to the urgency this moment demands.
In the midst of our greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression, the American people were hoping that Congress would begin to confront the great challenges we face. That was, after all, what last November's election was all about.
Legislation of such magnitude deserves the scrutiny that it's received over the last month, and it will receive more in the days to come. But we can't afford to make perfect the enemy of the absolutely necessary. The scale and scope of this plan is right. And the time for action is now.
Because if we don't move swiftly to put this plan in motion, our economic crisis could become a national catastrophe. Millions of Americans will lose their jobs, their homes, and their health care. Millions more will have to put their dreams on hold.
Let's be clear: We can't expect relief from the tired old theories that, in eight short years, doubled the national debt, threw our economy into a tailspin, and led us into this mess in the first place. We can't rely on a losing formula that offers only tax cuts as the answer to all our problems while ignoring our fundamental economic challenges – the crushing cost of health care or the inadequate state of so many schools; our addiction to foreign oil or our crumbling roads, bridges, and levees.
The American people know that our challenges are great. They don't expect Democratic solutions or Republican solutions – they expect American solutions.
From the beginning, this recovery plan has had at its core a simple idea: Let's put Americans to work doing the work America needs done. It will save or create more than 3 million jobs over the next two years, all across the country – 16,000 in Maine, nearly 80,000 in Indiana – almost all of them in the private sector, and all of them jobs that help us recover today, and prosper tomorrow.
Jobs that upgrade classrooms and laboratories in 10,000 schools nationwide – at least 485 in Florida alone – and train an army of teachers in math and science.
Jobs that modernize our health care system, not only saving us billions of dollars, but countless lives.
Jobs that construct a smart electric grid, connect every corner of the country to the information superhighway, double our capacity to generate renewable energy, and grow the economy of tomorrow.
Jobs that rebuild our crumbling roads, bridges and levees and dams, so that the tragedies of New Orleans and Minneapolis never happen again.
It includes immediate tax relief for our struggling middle class in places like Ohio, where 4.5 million workers will receive a tax cut of up to $1,000. It protects health insurance and provides unemployment insurance for those who've lost their jobs. And it helps our states and communities avoid painful tax hikes or layoffs for our teachers, nurses, and first responders.
That's what is at stake with this plan: putting Americans back to work, creating transformative economic change, and making a down payment on the American Dream that serves our children and our children's children for generations to come.
Americans across this country are struggling, and they are watching to see if we're equal to the task before us. Let's show them that we are. And let's do whatever it takes to keep the promise of America alive in our time.
Thank you.
Thanks for your concern regarding my leaving the discussions regarding the energy savings bonds. Please understand I am not mad. I do not get mad...it is counter productive. However, the discussions regarding that issue have been drifting into areas that have nothing to do with the task at hand. I would hope that members could find a better forum for those discussions. I am still very active in the Pickens Plan and wish you all the best of luck in your discussions regarding more philisopical issues, but I must delegate my time carefully. I will choose to work on the transformation of our energy issues in a more task related way. Thanks for your concerrn.
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Dear Friends,Email Your Senator Today!
I am concerned about the high percentage of our oil that comes from foreign countries. Even in December, as the economy was contracting, we imported nearly 70 percent of the oil we used and paid over $19 billion for it.
I am very interested in the aspects of The American Renewal and Reinvestment Act (H.R. 1) that include the promotion of alternative energy - wind and solar; the building out of a 21st century electrical transmission grid; and incenting trucking companies to upgrade from trucks running on foreign diesel to those running on domestic natural gas.
A Department of Energy study showed that developing our capacity to produce wind energy would not only replace 20 percent of the electricity we now produce using coal-burning plants, but would add 138,000 jobs in the first year and more than 3.4 million over a ten-year span.
Also, if we switch just 350,000 of the 6.5 million heavy trucks running on the nation's Interstate Highways to domestic natural gas from imported diesel, we could cut our oil imports by over five percent. In December alone that would have kept nearly $1 billion from being shipped off shore.
I hope you will join me in supporting these components of the Pickens Plan as H.R. 1 moves toward final passage in the Senate
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Read the full text of the bill H.R 1>>>
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.pdf
P.S. Savings bonds could be help in economic crisis.
While Washington tries to "fix" the banking and Wall Street mess created by subprime "gotcha" adjustable rate mortgages defaulting en masse, many of us are looking for a safer place to put at least some of our retirement, college funds, etc.
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 faxed 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.
Such bonds could increase employment enough to even reduce our taxes. Pass this idea on to your friends and then the politicians.
Renew_America_Bonds.pdf
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Keep the faith and thanks again,
Sincerely and with Respect,
Mike Kendall
27FEB09
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
Agreed, storing carbon in useful products is a utilitarial form of carbon sequestration. As long as we don't store more than is needed for atmospheric replenishment, it is a devine deal. I am not qualified to argue the facts surrounding the volume of carbon that traditional residential (woodframe) construction affords the global society.
In Houston, TX we don't have issues that you have in California. I've been to San Diego (Southern California) quite a number of times, my impression is that the natural cycle has been totally interrupted by the over population of the region. This is true for a lot of other regions across our nation. It is also the very point that needs to be highlighted in any discussion about alternative component utilization.
If you really want to be frightened, look down the barrel of a Hurricane coming in off the Gulf at 20 MPH. It can take two to three weeks or it can pickup up speed and be on top of you in a heartbeat. I am not arguing fire versus water/wind but essence of possibility to prepare with relation to support from the federal government.
You can't really prepare for climate changed enhanced storms such as Katrina & Ike. You can ratchet up standards to a point that no one can afford to live in certain areas, but then we Texans would all have to live in or North of Dallas to be safe. I believe that controlled burning in the non-windy seasons would help you guys in California, but you'd have to fire Arnold to get that program initialized.
I used the term 'plastics' to get you to present the opposing argument in writing. Thank you, I could not have done a better job. My appreciation is sincere because we need to put all the facts on the table to provide transparency to other readers. I hope you appreciate this strategy and forgive me for applying it herein. All of the plastic that you are referring to isn't the same stuff of which I am referring to. The technology of plastics that do not off-gass and can be recycled has advanced to the point that it is ready to provide ind necessary to give biology (wood) a much needed break. The useful life of these products far exceed wood, approaching the life of stone. Of course these hybrid plastics are blended with minerals and designed to offer superior durability, insulating features and recyclable.
According to some scientist, this "Pacific Raft" is a source of raw product for the finish goods we need to consider manufacturing. We need to determine how harvesting the plastic could afford these communities a source of employment and income. Plastics is a poor term for describing these 'Manmade Materials.' What we need is to integrate the waste that we can recover into sturdy structural members that do multipurpose tasks in providing habitat for humanity. A global standard for housing doesn't exist because regional materials are used to produce the product. Petroleum byproducts that are commonly used in the production of plastics are discarded because their isn't a local or regional market. Don't you see something in this?
We can overcome the problems with plastics but we need to consider the idea before we discard it. The world needs affordable housing for low income persons, but we can no longer deplete and depend on nature simultaneously. Many thanks to you for the information on the Paulowinia tree. I am intrigued with the idea of carbon sequestration by such means. Your advice is greatly appreciated.
I have studied many of the leading scientists' publications on global warming, climate change and atmospheric pollution. To be honest, most of it is far to technical for solo interpretation. With the help of a few professors at some regional universities, I have formed a theory that I think coincides with the general thought on the subject. My observation is that heat is the greater pollution in our environment. As you may recall heat can be introduced to mass in a number of methods, (chemical reactions, nuclear reactions, electromagnetic dissipation, and friction). However, the transfer of any formation of this energy in one form of mass to another form of mass can only be accomplished by one of three methods. Radiation, conduction or convection are specific methods by which we observe the transfer of energy as hot moving towards cold. I reason that if this is so, then the introduction of more particles of greater density (dust, other particulates and certain inert gases) in to the atmosphere would result in more friction in addition to greater weight upon the tectonic plates of the land masses and the oceans. Of these changes, I suspect that the greater problem is the increased weight of the atmosphere on the geography. The heat radiating from the sun that gets greenhoused may very well contribute to the dramatic weather changes, but the changes to patterns of wind, ocean current, and glacier also add up to a redistribution of the weight of the atmosphere which in turn could be an indication of increased seismic and violence of winds forced to find new paths of least resistance as a result of solar heating.
I believe that much of the observations of earth from space give us a clue as to the changes that we are inflicting on the planet. Just as there are no single (silver bullet) solutions to the global problem, there are likewise no single causes. I was taught that all the water (and by extension, every other element on the chart), that we have on this planet was here from the seventh day of creation is still here with exception to the few thousand tons, we have launched into space in the past fifty years or so. My rational leans towards the fact that we can change the form of elements by purifying them, combining them and modifying their molecular structure, that is creating manmade materials that do not exist in nature. Such items have differing capacities for absorbing and releasing heat depending on the method of heat gain. This tells me that pollution such as CO2 could be a cause of global warming by greenhouse phenomena, but it is certainly a cause of global atmospheric pollution in terms of additional particulate population and thus increased weight thus increased conduction contributing to increased convections.
The incidence of increased volcanic activity seems to come in waves. Perhaps this is an adjusting mechanism in nature to correct imbalances or simply (and more likely) a reaction to the settling of particulates back to the surface of the continents and ocean floors. From what I can observe, the Arctic and Antarctic are the cheif particulate filters as we have noted that the 'permanent' ice in these temperate zones contains a great deal of trapped dust and other debris from volcanic eruptions down through the eons.
The number and severity of potential eruptions in an unknown, but I sure somebody with a super computer could calculate the amount of particulate capacity our atmosphere might sustain before it started raining rocks.
Please, don't confuse political strategy with that of survival. Dr. Chu faces an uphill battle and he will be 18 months to two years just getting the house in order.
The description of our global climate as delicate is understating the case. Resilient is an additional term that applies to the climate, but infinite doesn't come into the picture. International politics are reshaping the future of commercial activity around the world. These policies are being dictated by corporations that have no national allegiances . . . not to Americans or any other nationality. By extension, the excuse of protecting shareholder value is be used to figuratively attack Mother Nature. I won't go into this conversation but I will say that Obama's promise of hope will require some serious patience on our part.
History seems to be on our side, but the one element in the equation of man's contribution to the planet's evolution that we can't account in population. There have never been as many humans on the planet as there are today. Since we know that we were never as mechanized as we are today, consider the following; the industrialization of China over the last ten to fifteen years was the equivalent to adding another United States to the community. There is a ratio of 1000:1 Chinese to Americans so there is room for at least 3000 more US economies in that nation alone. Then there's India and neither nation is interested in waiting for us to step aside so they can obtain our level of comfort. through inefficiencies. I calculate that to give 80% of the world's population the same lifestyle as the average American, it would take about 6000 x the current rate of US consumption and waste. We current use 1/4 the oil and we waste about 20% of that. It is an illusion that this can be done using the presently available resources and materials without not only destroying ourselves but sterilizing the planet.
M. L. "Mickey" Hayes
Pickens' Plan Evangelist
I regret the inconvenience. Please continue to enjoy the group.
It is good to hear from you I hope your Thanksgiving holiday was a good one. Though I look forward to your insights into the financial world I must take pause in your hypothesis on compressed natural gas and our collective energy future.
My first point is that T. Boone has long since modified his plan for CNG to fleet vehicles, and though the United States does possess large natural gas reserves we still import a significant amount of the natural gas we use today. I have seen many estimates on the imported oil reduction if just fleet vehicles converted to CNG; I think the most reliable rests at about a 20% reduction in our foreign oil dependency.
Second, solar PV collectors are only one type of solar collection. There are types of solar collection that do not depend on sunshine but the gathering of solar radiation; please visit this page: http://push.pickensplan.com/forum/topic/show?id=2187034%3ATopic%3A830692
However wind power, ocean power, solar power, and geothermal power combined will not answer our collective energy needs.
Third, every year Americans generate huge volumes of biodegradable waste that has to be disposed of. This waste is one major key to our energy independence and a cleaner environment. Methane gas is produced when ever animal or plant matter decays. Methane is CH4, one carbon atom to 4 hydrogen atoms; hydrogen is the most abundant resource on our planet. Recovery of hydrogen from our dumps and waste recycling plants is imperative, for the following reasons: it generates fuel that our civilization requires, as a result of hydrogen recovery from human, animal, and plant waste we actually generate a highly desirable soil fertilizer that regenerates our planet’s ability to produce vegetation, and third we no longer squander valuable land and resources “dumping” the waste. Lastly natural gas is primarily methane that has been generated from millennia of decay from the time of the dinosaurs. It would seem to me that if we can produce our own fuel from the waste of our daily lives rather than drill for it that we have solved our own problems.
Fourth, our own “big three” automakers currently manufacture and sell (in countries other than our own) turbo diesels that have fuel efficiencies in excess of 50 MPG, that can utilize ammonia as a fuel versus fossil fuel or CNG. This would be the link we need to eliminate our foreign oil dependency in less than 10 years, since the entire American auto and truck fleet is essentially replaced on a rate of 20% a year. For a better explanation of ammonia and turbo diesels please contact Dr. Paul Curto on the Pickens Plan. This final point is probably the most important as it provides immediate solutions to several problems our country now faces; the technology not only exists it is being utilized by our automakers else where in the world, it achieves more quickly and more dramatically the fuel efficiency and carbon reduction we so desperately need, and it provides a path way to produce our way out of the economic recession.
The other forms of clean renewable energy still need to be passionately and decisively pursued as they will ultimately be a necessary part of a total switch to our clean energy needs. We will also still need to address the state of our current energy grid which is sadly inefficient and out dated, allow for the gradual phasing out of coal fired and nuclear power generation, and redesign of buildings and processes that conserve energy and reduced pollution.
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