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Sunday, June 08, 2008

An open letter to  senator Mitch McConnell:


Dear Senator, 


You asked, "How can we bring down fuel costs?"


Right now supporting S.2958 (see below).


But in the meantime we must use our own energy resources, and strive for  a program that would not only make our nation energy independent but an energy exporter  We have the resources. Look what a bonanza oil has been to Alaska.

 

Get America excited about this great opportunity of reformation from fossil fuel to alternative energy.


1. Encourage the building of refineries in a crash program.  We will have to have this capacity to buy time during the  transition.


2. Create a national endowment for the creation and practical application of alternate energy. Capital resources will be needed to launch new companies to  market these new energy sources. (think employment opportunity and ultimate returns to the treasury in terms of  tax revenues).


3. Establish a National Alternate Energy Bureau whose sole purpose will be encouraging the homogenization of all of the various forms of alternate energy and converting the technology into industrial formats. Then using the  business plans thus created to encourage entrepreneur to run the created companies.


 4. Give a national monetary award to the corporate venture that offers the most practical,  (profitable) solution to the use of alternative energy. 


5. Subsidize through tax credits to make it financially feasible to use  solar energy and batteries. 


6.  Create a National Atomic Energy system with  reactors in remote govt. owned  areas with  a connection to every state.


Support  Senate Bill

S.2958


supporting environmentally responsible exploration in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

allowing limited deep sea exploration off of the U.S. Coast to take advantage of available resources

repealing bureaucratic barriers to innovation which can lead to less expensive sources of energy, including oil from shale and new hybrid batteries

development of coal-to-liquid fuels, using America’s most abundant energy resource to replace Middle Eastern oil

promoting new conservation and “green” sources of fuels a connection to every state.