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This happened at Jack Kingston's Health Care Town Hall, Valdosta, GA, 28 Sep 2009: a veteran was booed for saying respect the president. To Kingston's credit, he shushed the crowd.The speaker was George Rhynes, who is one of the organizers of a rally tomorrow, Saturday 17 October 2009, on the Lowndes County courthouse steps, Valdosta, Georgia. Invitations on
Why won't someone in this admin take some time to understand the only logical pathway to energy independence is the stepped approach, natural gas is it for now!! Pickens understands, Cramer understands, Geithner probably understands but takes some time to share his beliefs, where is Obama? The obstinence of our current administration to review the obvious is just arrogant and I am thoroughly disgusted by this behavior.
Someone like Jim Cramer (and I am far from his advocate since his stock 'picks' are still only ~50% correct from the ones I've tracked) should be one of your advisors on this topic; he understands both the opportunities and challenges since he has open access to more independent thinking than your administration (at least it appears this way). It is all about jobs, ability to drive our own future without dealing with the threats of other countries and trying to get our country to a point where my children do not need to go to China or India to make a decent living.
Clean coal is vaporware and doesn't address the need for new job creation . As Cramer pointed out the other day, if we succeed in creating a powerful car battery to run our cars, guess what it needs to plug into to get juiced up each night... electrical outlets which are largely run by coal and unless you solve that 'clean coal' problem immediately, we are just back in the old pollution conundrum exponentially.
On Sunday, August 9, in West Chester, PA, OFA did phonebanking for the President's health care reform principles.
This time we phoned people in our state but not our immediate area. We got more answered phones and virtually everyone who answered declared support for the Obama principles. Nearly all agreed to phone their representatives in Congress. As a result, the phonebank was a high energy event.
Call your reps in Congress AND since they are in their home district offices during the summer recess, pay them a visit. You can get the phone number and address for home district offices at
http://www.congressmerge.com/onlinedb/index.htm
Let them know that you support the President’s health care reform principles.
I just watched an inspiring video posted on HealthReform.gov that showed President Obama reading a few of the letters he gets every day. Most of the letters the President reads on this video are about health care.
The President reads ten letters every day of about 65,000 that arrive every week. He makes a handwritten reply to three or four per day. (The White House staff replies to all of them.) The video also gives us a peak at how those letters arrive at the White House and how they are selected to go to the President.
If you ever feel your energy for the health care reform fight flagging, watch this six-minute video at
http://www.whitehouse.gov/video/Inside-the-White-House-Letters-to-the-President/
My fellow citizens,
I am a survivor of Acute Meyloid Leukemia, or AML. I recieve care from one of the finest institutions in medicine, UC Davis Medical Group, with help along the way from Stanford Medical. I had a bone marrow transplant in 2005 and have been doing great considering the trauma to my system. We need to do everything we can to help with healthcare reform, and eliminate pre-existing conditions. The relief on Emergency Rooms alone will save countless taxpayer dollars and hospital's lost revinue. The other side of the equation is to improve our personal health and environment.
When researching the environmental causes of my form of cancer, I found that it is associated with exposure to Benzene. http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/abstract/316/17/1044
The "Benzene Ring" is the building block of Gasoline, paint and solvents.
I do not believe in prohibition, but I do believe that government can create strong incentives to limit the use of gasoline by endorsing clean diesel, biofeuls and natural gas production and consumption.
The California Air Resources Board (CARB) is obviously owned by the large oil companies who have their refineries in the San Fransico Bay Area. CARB continues to block efforts of auto companies to sell diesel cars in California, one of the largest and most important automobile markets in the world. If you can't sell a car in California, you can't produce it for sale in the US.
Barack Obama gave us the funding, let's get up and do something with it!
I am applying for a grant from the US Dept. of Energy (DOE), to create a prototype truck that will be powered by a Capstone Microturbine Generator, and use DC electric hub motors at each wheel, called the Hi-Pa Drive, manufactured by PML FLightlink of the UK.
Microturbines can be powered by Natural Gas, Hydrogen, Biodiesel, Ethanol, Methanol, Petroleum diesel, Jet Fuel, and Gasoline.
http://www.sustainablebusiness.com/index.cfm/go/news.display/id/18365
Even when burning the stinky fossil fuels, the microturbine can qualify under CARB's standards as a low emissions vehicle.
With the use of the Hi-Pa Drive built by PML Flightlink, the vehicle would have no gears, axles, or drivelines. With the microturbine powerplant, my early estimates guarantee at least 80 MPG, in a large SUV or Truck! http://www.hipadrive.com/
Barack Obama is the leader that can, and will, help us bridge the gap to the Hydrogen Economy. His grants to the DOE are being pursued by lots of other people like me, and in the end, we can all drive our cars without polluting, and spread our technolgy to help the developing world as well as the US.
We all breathe the same air. Let's take a stand to clean it up!
So get out and help the cause America! Tell your Representatives how important healthcare reform is to our lives and economy, and do something in your own life to reduce future healthcare costs.
Run, bike, hike and swim to the future! When you get there and you are too tired to run home, just get in your clean green car and drive!
I just read a new book called Two Cents Per Mile: Will Obama Make it Happen with the Stroke of a Pen? Simply put, this book shows the open conspiracy going on between the Department of Energy and corporations to prevent the development of 100% electric cars. I don’t think Obama is fully aware of the consequences of moving toward a hydrogen economy and preserving the internal combustion engine. The book calls upon the reader to send letters to local, state and federal officials to get us back on track for all electric cars. There are links in the book to customize form letters. If you value America’s future, the environment and are concerned about what kind of world our kids will inherit, you have to check this book out. http://www.amazon.com/Two-Cents-per-Mile-President/dp/0615293913/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1245854577&sr=8-1
Renewable energy requires system engineering with storage devices. Why have utilities refused to provide storage? All US tarriffs presenlty provide income only for energy created from raw fuels. Energy that is stored and delivered later is not rewarded by new revenue. Energy storage has always been required as part of another project to build a power plant. Thus, no storage requires the building of fewer renewable resources.
It is time to redo the utility tarriffs in all states. Utilities should be paid for all services delivered in proportion to the value of that service. Then, renewables can come to the fore, even if there is the threat of open competition. The new generation of wind generators enable homeowners to detach from the local utility. How many customers can a utility use without rate increases? As the rates go up, more wind generation installations are justified, more customers leave the local utility. The utilities and the customers end up without a win win situation. Utilities have provided a system that has propelled the US into propserity, it is now time for them to refocus and enable the US to do the same again.
Wind power along solar and other alternate energy sources are badly needed in this country. Our dependency on foreign oil has placed this country in a desperate position. We must not allow opportunities to rebuild America's energy independence pass us by. Every part of this country needs energy and locally generated clean energy is good for everyone and it creates jobs that cannot be outsourced overseas. Every home grown energy source should be encouraged and explored. Wind energy has best chance to bring clean energy here and now.
America's Energy Policy is the most important task we face today and without fixing this I how can we fix anything else.
We often hear today that our government is doing too much too fast. Really?
We have an economic melt down that is costing hundreds of thousands of jobs every month putting us in an economic and financial crisis. We continue to debate the financial and climatic impact of an unsustainable energy policy that requires a transition to alternative, renewable energy. We have the year-to-year cost of health care crippling individuals, businesses and our governement (Medicare & Medicaid). We seem to lack a commitment to the fundamental requirement of an educational system that produces competent, world class citizens on a scale with other countries.
We need to know what our representation in Washington is doing about these critical issues. We need to let Washington know how we would like them to legislate on our behalf. We need to make every elected representative accountable for the actions they either have or have not taken on our behalf.
Become engaged - let Washington know where we stand.
We are in crisis, an energy crisis. We have problems with our present energy providers, and are looking to replace with a new more efficient energy source. Electricity seems to be the energy of choice, but we need to do our homework. The President should also do his homework!
We as a people have a responsibility to follow what are leader suggests, ad try and help our country as much as we can.... "ask not what our country can do for us....but what canwe do for our country!"
Well, now is the time for the President to do for his country something amazing. I have come across a few articles that specifies the extension of battery life 10fold. This means for the same small battery we have 10 times the life.....OR for a battery 10 times smaller, we have the same amount of life.
Take this to practice on car batteries for electrical cars...this means a car with 10 times smallerbattery, means lss weight, and less production costs. Should this not instill a certai urgency, and should this not make the President want to invest some money in this company that cam across this new etchnology? You can read for yourself the findings....but this is a matter of national well being...and when they say 5 years before you see the first publicly available battery....I say, it should be 5 months...not 5 years!
Incentives are what we need, and I find the President is not doing as much as he could or maybe his cabinet or his "peeps" in charge of finding the new technologies that will bring the US out of their current energy dependent situation.
These are the links to the stories related to my findings!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/science/sciencenews/5353809/Worlds-first-battery-fuelled-by-air.html
http://www.greencarcongress.com/2009/05/stair-20090518.html
All the people from the world may work together for a clean environment.
SAVE THE BLUE PLANET!
"Save the blue planet fighting permanently for the elimination of the pollutant technologies but especially contributing to the promotion of the non-pollutant technologies to protect the fragile environment, for a clean planet and for the people's health!" We can make it together.
Life is Love and Love Saves the World!
All the people from the world are brothers between they,like the children of GOD,or like the children of the Earth Planet, as like you!
My dear brother,
It is a honour for me to address you this message:
-Referring to Global Warming and Climate Change, today I am very pleased to send you some very good news:
"I HAVE EFFICIENT TECHNICAL SOLUTIONS AGAINST GLOBAL WARMING!"
My name is Justinian Ion Cioroianu and I am living in European Union, in Romania.
I am engineer and I am researching of 25 years to promote non-pollutant technologies.
I have a good experience of work of 42 years in more domains of activity,especially in the thermal and in the electric power field.
I am only a little man in this world so big, but I should like to bring my contribution to saving our world from a planetary disaster.
GOD made a beautiful world, but unfortunately the men destroy the nature and his world.
The humanity at present is crossing the most important technological crisis by his history ,because the people destroy the planet through environment pollution caused of the usage of old technologies.
I have some efficient and non-pollutant alternative technologies and I want to promote them.
I have also technical solutions with quick effect,against Global Warming.
GOD BLESS THE WORLD from Heaven, but we can make a clean planet here on Earth !
The human resources are the most important in the world and the human values must be discover, develop and use for development, prosperity and social progress.
The human resources don't must be killed in the criminal acts of terrorism, or in the wars.
The human aspirations must to have a good lawful and financial base for their achievement.
I am looking for sponsors, because my environmental Projects needs financial support, imperative necessary for my research work and I don't know who I must contact for my sponsorship request.
I should like to co-operation in this purpose with the investors.
If you may help me to indicate who I must contact for financial support in environmental research field and to apply my technologies and technical solutions, contact me please as soon as is possible at e-mail address: justinian_cioroianu@yahoo.com
I am a creative person and I am fighting permanently against the Earth Pollution, anybody may view my Blog and websites:
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GOD BLESS THE WORLD !
Greetings from Romania,
Justinian Ion Cioroianu.
Even the idea that the Taliban could possess nuclear material is harmful to our national security. The President should declare that and have spies and satellites vigilant in Pakistan. In the event Pakistan military forces are overrun near sites containing nuclear weapons or nuclear energy material he ought to immediately order those materials utterly destroyed. The Taliban would use those materials in a dirty bomb. It won’t be enough to drop cruise missiles on them because that would merely scatter the nuclear material around, where Bin Laden’s people can collect it. Mr. Obama should be prepared to nuke them, and he should do it immediately, before materials can be relocated. Many lives would be lost in such an action, but they would not be American lives. While all life is precious, President Obama must act decisively to protect our lives above all others.
Government Spending Vs. Tax Cuts (Less Spending)
Lately, it is hard to walk into somebody on the street and not strike up a casual conversation about the economy. Everybody is worried about the economy. According to the latest Gallup poll over 70% of Americans trust President Obama's plan for economic recovery. However, do people really understand what the Government is trying to achieve? If we don't have an answer for that question then we definitely don't have an answer for the next question: is it fair to criticize the Government Spending approach to stimulate our economy then give more tax cuts to higher-income Americans?
There are two major indicators of the economy:
There are two ways to stimulate the economy and they both move the labor productivity curve and consumption curve in the same direction. Both ways work to a certain extent.
The two models are
1) Tax Cuts
2) Increase Spending
We had seen two tax cuts during President Bush's administration. A tax cut is NOT a freebie, and after we get a Tax Cut we will see the Tax Increase at some point in the future because Taxes are a very important source of revenue and it is the right of the Government to collect Tax. Tax cuts come with the cost and as I said earlier, you can only make an adjustment to a certain extent.
Now let’s talk about the Government. The ideal government tries to satisfy this formula:
G stands for Govt. Spending
T stands for Tax
R is Interest Rate
In simple terms we call that a balanced budget. It can be balanced by changing either variable (tax or govt. spending). I won’t tell you that you are wrong because you like more tax cuts because it has the same effect as increased government spending. I find it necessary to increase government spending because we are already $1.5 Trillion in deficit and the problem is not on the supply side. The problem is with the demand side. People right now do not have money to spend. Only the government can spend money but I totally agree that when the consumption curve starts moving with the labor productivity curve then government spending needs to be stopped. Until then, the government needs to spend, and the majority of economists agree with increasing government spending. People are worried about budget spending, but spending fluctuates depending on how and where the economy is and all this spending in the bill is not a concrete number that needs to be spent. If next year the economy recovers then the government doesn’t have to spend money just because it has written a 1000 page spending bill. My anger is not towards the last administration because they were republicans. My anger is towards their spending pattern and the disparity in spending. Let me give you an example of FY 2008 Spending breakdown by department:
That is where I have a problem: outrageous spending but nothing to grow a better economy. The problem is not with spending. The problem is spending without a plan. If we spend so much money how can we pay for it? What will happen when the war ends? What will it do to the unemployment rate when our troops come home? and When and How will the war end? In the name of protection, money was wasted left and right. It left our economy handicapped with the most devalued currency in a decade. The devaluation of American currency was another big factor contributing to the slowdown of our economy as we couldn't afford foreign-made goods--all of sudden those goods became more expensive. It hurt all the nations that depend on the United States of America for their products including China and the Indian software industry. That has raised the need for another global currency. People are saying President Obama is stealing from their kids and grandkids. What if there is no economy left for their kids if we don’t do anything today? Grand Theft was committed during the Bush Administration in the name of "No Child Left Behind." It is an amazing program without sufficient funding and I already gave you proof of spending above. The results were clear as glass: a record number of college drop outs. When India and China are producing a record number of doctors and engineers, we started producing a record number of HIGH SCHOOL DROP OUTS. I know we are better than this. If we are not better, then why would anybody come to America for higher education? Over 70% of students in higher education are foreign students. I had a hard time finding somebody who speaks clear English before I signed up for my classes in college. My math tutors couldn't even say any body's name. So she used to write names on the black board to take attendance. Without disrespect to any of those students why couldn't we have our American kids go in higher education and build better America? Why do we all have to fight for blue-collar jobs? Seriously, how many Joe the Plumbers are out there who are making more than $250 thousand?
When it comes to Energy, we all know that oil is a limited resource. It will run out with time. But the Sun will always shine, and the wind will always blow. So why is it so hard to pay attention to alternative sources of energy? Why is President Obama called the thief of our children's future when he is the one who is trying to invest in alternative sources of energy?
So if we don't invest in the Economy, Energy and Education today then WHEN?
President Obama's plan to recovery and prosperity offers the solution those core issues such as Economy, Energy and Education.
I am taking a commitment to educate myself, keeping an open mind and understanding first hand about the plan. I would't want any views from hate media specially FOX NEWS. It is time to move forward and get work done. America has great leader with clear vision and plan, and we an American people has done our job by electing right people on the right spot.
To effectively plan for and build up to the Clean Energy Jobs Days, we'll hold an Organizing Meetings on Saturday May 2nd at 2:00 at the Barrow Mansion in Jersey City. Please go to:
http://pol.moveon.org/event/events/event.html?event_id=93104&id=
On May 28, all over the country, we're organizing a Clean Energy Jobs Day -- a national day of action to turn up the heat on Congress by showing the promise of the clean energy economy to our senators and representatives, the media, and the public. We'll highlight the clean energy jobs and businesses that already exist in our communities, and we'll showcase the ways in which they could expand. During the Jobs Day, each MoveOn Council will organize a press conference at a clean energy business, and then visit a few other clean energy sites. We'll call on their senator or representative to support President Obama's plan for a new energy economy.
More details and upcoming events on our blog:
Rossella Aquila
Jersey City Hoboken Council
If I had any doubts, I don't anymore: The (political) ground just shifted under our feet. The best comment I heard this morning was on MSNBC: David Shuster said that Arlen Specter didn't leave the Republican Party; the Republican Party left Arlen Specter ... and a whole lot of other moderates, in Pennsylvania and nationwide. Now we've GOT to make some real, positive change (as by getting Franken sworn-in in MN) so that the people at large get some benefit from all this, in those key areas Obama keeps pounding away at: healthcare, education, and energy. Those things have been left undone for far too long. The only way we can survive and thrive as a nation is by working on all three (and then some) together, in an integrated, "holistic" approach: It takes a nation to build a nation!
Yes, we can!
SWA dedicates new collection system
To some people, a landfill is simply “the dump.”But Raleigh County Solid Waste Authority officials say its dump is a source of pride — an innovative, ahead-of-the-curve facility that could soon produce “green,” renewable energy.Wednesday evening, the authority dedicated its new landfill methane gas collection system. The system — a $1.7 million project — will destroy 50,000 to 90,000 metric tons of methane gas built up inside the landfill every year, according to James Allen, director of operations.
http://www.register-herald.com/local/local_story_112222819.html
It's great to see another community getting on the band wagon and starting to make changes in their county. Here is another great example of harnessing energy from trash and using it to not only create employment in the region but to add services to surrounding counties. This gives you some hope, that renewable energies are being used to better our world and the environment will thank us someday.
