The video here is well worth every moment of your listening pleasure. The American here is for America, where unfortunately, most of the rest of us are for any other country but America. You will understand that statement if you give of your valuable time to watch and listen.
Be 1st an American!

This American has more going on for the future of these United States than most any other person that we've heard of these past couple years. He is a business man since the age of 11 years old. He grew into the oil industry and is now working very hard in his later years on a whole new plan to provide a solution to the United States dependency on foreign oil, its pollution generation problem, rural job loss, rural community shrinkage, job creation, national security, and a better future for all Americans.

Here in this video he speaks before the Senate Homeland Security & Govt. Reform committee. I urge and challenge you, to take the time to listen to all of this presentation; to go back and review immediately, any portion that you may have missed or did not fully understand. Mr. Pickens explains things very well, clearly and with precision. Something we don't see much from many of our leaders today. Perhaps something they can all aspire to!

T. Boone Pickens has established a most excellent site that covers almost every question one might have on this new energy plan. You will find the most awesome video hosted by BrightCove.
 
If you are at all interested in a new energy plan for the United States, I urge you to check out all there is to offer on this fine web site, enjoy the many videos, daily blog posts and more!

Don't Buy the Republican Oil and Gas Scare Tactics

Pity so many of us believes that the idea of Global Warming is all a bunch of Bull-Shite. When they talk to others about their thoughts and the idea,.. it makes those who don't know any better, continue to turn their eyes and ears even when presented with scientific evidence which supports it.

July 25, 2008
Source: New Energy Finance

Governors from 48 US states have called on the US Congress to extend federal tax credits considered critical of the development of US renewable energy.

In a letter to Congressional leaders, the governors asked that the House of Representatives and the Senate pass legislation that would renew for at least five years the Investment Tax Credit and Production Tax Credit, which primarily subsidize solar and wind, respectively. The governors also asked that more funding be allocated for federal Clean Energy Renewable Bonds, which support the development of publicly financed projects.

The credits are currently set to expire at the end of 2008. South Carolina and Georgia were the only states that did not sign the letter from the National Governors Association, likely because of the region's poor wind and solar resources. Governors from three US territories were also signatories.

The governors sent their letter to Congress on the day the House passed a bill that raises the likelihood the PTC/ITC will be shelved until the fall. Republican Senator John Ensign had attempted to attach the PTC/ITC extensions to a federal housing bill intended to provide relief for homeowners. He reasoned that it was the one bill almost guaranteed to get presidential approval in 2008 and he hoped to get the extensions through Congress by pinning them to the legislation. He was joined in that effort by Senator Maria Cantwell, Democrat of Washington State.

In April 2008, the Senate approved the housing bill with the Ensign/Cantwell amendment attached but fiscally conservative Democrats in the House removed the extensions because the estimated USD 8bn in credits were not paid for in the legislation.

Ensign tried again on his own in June to have the PTC/ITC extensions added to the housing bill and said he would block the legislation until the credits were included. Then in early July, Ensign proposed a version of the bill that included USD 8bn in spending reductions to pay for the credit extensions. Again, the amendment failed to gain sufficent support.

The bill went back to the House without the credit extensions in mid- July and was passed by the chamber 23 July. The bill is now awaiting passage in the Senate before it goes to the White House where it is expected to be signed into law by President George W. Bush.

Leaderpuppet

I'm not saying that it isn't a monumental task to take on the puppeteers that have been allowed to run this country for all these years. But as one of the people born of this country, I wonder when we'll get a leader to actually lead us, the U.S. and perhaps the rest of the world?

For example:
George W. Bush said on Sunday at the G8 Summit he was prepared to be “constructive” in discussions on climate change, although he insisted that any agreement was contingent on the participation of China and India.

Thats like saying, I had my cake and ate it too, but I don't want any of you people to have what I have now. In fact, I will continue to eat my cake and push our world perilously to the edge unless you agree to give up on your progress, and then perhaps I may do something to show that I too am doing something however small, towards a better world.

But really it is the wishes of a few who pull the mouth-strings on our leaderpuppet. They are the ones who are causing all this for their own interests. Its just too bad that our leaderpuppet (thinks), that it is his actions. Just as the German military elite found their leaderpuppet in little Adolf. Our industry rich few have found theirs in the American Presidency.

He basically is saying, I'm king and the only way I'll do something worthy is if you'll give up trying to have a better life.

Here we are, the largest consuming nation of oil hungry gluttons in the world per person and we won't quit until a country with 3 times more people who consume far less than we do per person, stops what they are doing to advance their society which is finally helping the masses?

Leader

Why shouldn't every developing country have their time to thrive? And with the knowledge of today, cut back or even prevent the mistakes they've seen us make in our developing past and the problems we allow our leaders to put us into today?

It just seems all too sad. I may not be able to do much but at least I can help bring it to thought here on the internet where I know there are people with some intelligence who read. Then maybe my small ripple and a few others will become the ripples that build into tidal waves. Won't you be part of that wave and cry out in your own way for a real leader?

Dear future President,
-are you reading this?
We the people want a real leader!
Are you up to the challenge?
Or will you allow the elite few to pull your strings too?

The headline reads:

World Bank: biofuels push food prices up 75 percent

Duhh!

Food prices

The United States was once called "the food basket to the world". But now, stupidly, we take one of our largest Ag exports: corn; and say we're slating it for use as biofuel? No wonder food prices are up. Again, we have seen a country of innovation and genius become: (place your description here) and we go off and do a stupid thing like this. Corn ethanol has an extremely low energy output to energy input ratio as opposed to other higher energy producing biofuel sources such as sugar cane and switch grass. Yet we ignore these facts and do it anyway. Duh! How dumb are we?
 
It is our own fault that we and the rest of the world are paying such higher prices for food. Yet, what are we doing about it? Besides, corn ethanol can only replace up to 3% of the oil we consume. Duh! Duh! Duh! What are we doing here exactly?

There are other things proven to perform better. Yet, are we supporting these things? Why are we not? Duh! Perhaps it would be different if all Americans were given an equal share of the oil profits from our own companies. Obviously we are not. Obviously it is because of big oil and our own leaders here in the United States that we are denied the cleaner, far better solutions to our energy problems. A better question is perhaps: Do we have an energy problem? Or have we created a so called energy problem? A problem that we as a nation refuse for some reason not to solve and solve quickly?
 
We have supposedly elected our own representatives to government. These are people who are 'supposedly' serving our interests. Our elected officials are 'supposedly' serving the interests of the people (the masses) and not the interests of the few. Yet that is exactly what we are allowing to happen now, is it not? Duh!

Obviously we do not mind paying more for fuel, more for food, more for everything involving oil and corn biofuel. It must be just a few malcontents that are complaining loudly about it. They must be among the few who are poor and who are having a difficult time handling these cost increases ...is that right? Because obviously, we, the people are not complaining at all, or we the people are not complaining loudly and strongly enough to make our representatives do the job they were 'elected' by the people to do. Everything is fine for the majority of the people of the United States. Hunky dory. Just fine. Piece of cake. No problem. Couldn't be better. Right?

Duh!

Prime Minister Brown today reaffirmed that the UK will spend $100 billion on a dramatic new energy program. The $100 billion will come from private business and encouraged through financial incentives in a speech to come from its business secretary, John Hutton.

Thousands of new wind turbines could be built across the UK as part of the program. Prime Minister Brown says: "It will require real leadership from government - being prepared to make hard decisions on planning or on tax for example. It will mean new kinds of consumer behaviour and lifestyles. And it will demand creativity, innovation and entrepreneurialism throughout our economy and our society."
 
The announcement comes on the heels of the U.S. announcement of a paltry $100 million toward renewables and after the defeat of bill H.R. 6049. The bill would have had legislation to extended the residential and commercial tax credits for solar energy for eight years. The bill was supported by a diverse coalition including manufacturers, construction firms, environmental groups, electric utilities, chemical companies, banks, investors, labor, public health and religious organizations, trade associations and many others. But sadly the U.S. Senate defeated it.

Meanwhile, the U.K. says that this new renewable energy program will bring 160,000 new jobs. It plans that the North Sea will be turned into "the equivalent for wind power of what the Gulf of Arabia is for oil". Wind turbines will also be built inland, but with sensitivity towards local communities.

These two Australian partners have come up with a generator that creates power infinitum and can be used in your household to generate free power. What will be the key thing to watch is how quickly this invention is squashed! Yes folks its been done many, many times before. Whenever an invention that can put some big business out of business comes to reality, it is quickly squashed as we call it and that invention is never talked of, seen, or heard of again. That is, until folks like us bring it back to life.

Long Life Electrical Generation For Home

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