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E 85 National Security and Possible Health benefits

Encourage E85 and flex fuel, in addition to drilling American oil. Also study the impact on health dietary changes contributed to by rising corn prices could have. We assume corn being a cheap foodstuff is good for the poor, but conscidering the current rate of diabetes and obesity, this is a leap of logic. Might another cheap, subsidized staple food be healthier and free up corn for energy and transportation?? I'm not ...more »

Encourage E85 and flex fuel, in addition to drilling American oil. Also study the impact on health dietary changes contributed to by rising corn prices could have. We assume corn being a cheap foodstuff is good for the poor, but conscidering the current rate of diabetes and obesity, this is a leap of logic. Might another cheap, subsidized staple food be healthier and free up corn for energy and transportation?? I'm not asserting that this is the case, but rather that it should be studied before we assume rising corn prices from E85 will hurt the poor--through dietary changes, it may actually help. This bears further investigation.

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Ban electronics "Instant on" Feature and idiot off lights in future electronics........

...to Reduce Energy demand by requiring electronics to be truly off - not leeching energy. Only allowed with certain exceptions (Cable Boxes for example because of the long booting / reprogramming time)

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American citizenship or being a citizen of Heaven

If you had a choice between being an American citizen or being a citizen of Heaven, which would you choose? For our citizenship is in heaven, from which also we eagerly wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ; Philippians 3:20 I am choosing being a citizen of Heaven since Obama and his team is taking America straight to world citizenship, and then straight to hell. Citizen of Heaven = Thumbs up Citizen of America ...more »

If you had a choice between being an American citizen or being a citizen of Heaven, which would you choose?
For our citizenship is in heaven, from which also we eagerly wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ; Philippians 3:20
I am choosing being a citizen of Heaven since Obama and his team is taking America straight to world citizenship, and then straight to hell.
Citizen of Heaven = Thumbs up
Citizen of America = Thumbs down

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Add labeling requirement to electrical devices

Devices which use electricity sold in the United States ought to be clearly labeled with maximum energy use while being actively used and while sitting idle. This should include all devices, from major appliances to USB peripherals and RAM chips.

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The Tree of Obama

"You will know a tree by it's fruit." Matthew 7:16 The Obama Tree is a black Oak. The leaves protect the tree from the light of truth. The bark is hard and callus to prevent transparency. The fruit is the ACORN, to reproduce itself again and again. The roots of deception go deep into the American soil. By David Craig Mastrianni © 2009 Toalterorabolish.com Please help me report any copying of the ...more »

"You will know a tree by it's fruit." Matthew 7:16
The Obama Tree is a black Oak.
The leaves protect the tree from the light of truth.
The bark is hard and callus to prevent transparency.
The fruit is the ACORN, to reproduce itself again and again.
The roots of deception go deep into the American soil.
By David Craig Mastrianni
© 2009 Toalterorabolish.com
Please help me report any copying of the original literary works by David Craig Mastrianni. Visit www.toalterorabolish.com or www.elegalplan.com and contact us.

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Submitted by webman225 3 years ago
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Drill, baby, drill!

Government now owns 2 of the big 3. Each will make smaller, more fuel efficient vehicles. The government is trying to make sure that gas prices keep increasing to make sure those cars are "what Americans want to buy". I'm afraid the fix is already in. But higher fuel prices will hurt the economy, and will hurt the poorest among us the hardest. For the love of God, just let us drill here and drill now to lower ...more »

Government now owns 2 of the big 3. Each will make smaller, more fuel efficient vehicles. The government is trying to make sure that gas prices keep increasing to make sure those cars are "what Americans want to buy".
I'm afraid the fix is already in.
But higher fuel prices will hurt the economy, and will hurt the poorest among us the hardest.
For the love of God, just let us drill here and drill now to lower the burden on everyone. Stop this ideaology-driven policy of making sure energy prices increase so that people will cut back on energy use and thereby curb man-bear-pig, uh...global warming, uh...climate change.
You are hurting the economy, and especially the poor. Stop it!
Let us use our resources for the good of all. Let us increase our manufacturing capacity, not reduce it or outsource it to other countries.
Drill, baby, drill.
Oh, and NO on cap and tax!

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Energy Independence - A Comprehensive Plan

We need a comprehensive plan to achieve energy independence - a plan that will make this a reality in a few years - not the 10-20 years politicians have been telling us the past 10-20 years. It is going to take all of the Picken's plan, Al Gore's "We" campaign, even "drill here, drill now" needs to be in the mix to make independence happen. Sending almost a trillion dollars overseas every year to meet our energy needs ...more »

We need a comprehensive plan to achieve energy independence - a plan that will make this a reality in a few years - not the 10-20 years politicians have been telling us the past 10-20 years. It is going to take all of the Picken's plan, Al Gore's "We" campaign, even "drill here, drill now" needs to be in the mix to make independence happen. Sending almost a trillion dollars overseas every year to meet our energy needs is not a path for success - Independence is!

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Submitted by mercuryswings 3 years ago
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Get out of our way-stop social and fiscal manipulating

o The American people built this country through innovation and hard work. o The government began manipulating our monitary system and our social identiy and that's when our troubles began. o Close the borders so that Americans can do the jobs that alien illegals are being given. The open borders are the government's method of 'union busting' on a massive scale. It's working. The unions are busted and so is America. ...more »

o The American people built this country through innovation and hard work.
o The government began manipulating our monitary system and our social identiy and that's when our troubles began.
o Close the borders so that Americans can do the jobs that alien illegals are being given. The open borders are the government's method of 'union busting' on a massive scale. It's working. The unions are busted and so is America.
o Give us back our cultural identity by making English THE official language of the country.
o Make the death penalty legal in capital cases and follow through.
o Give prisoners a maximum # of appeals. If they're in prison, require them to produce SOMETHING.
o Leave our medical system alone. It's historically, the best in the world.
o Stop giving insurance companies 'outs' that allow them to selectively insure property thus covering only the minimum casualty losses.
o Let Katrina go. It's become an fable about helpless people that's being used to rob the coffers of this country.
o Build our military and bring them home to protect us.
o Drill for oil here and use the revenues to work on alternative energy.
o Build safe nuclear plants and build them now.
o Get the heck out of our way.

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Energy Plan

DannyTN's energy plan The bulk of the stimulus should go to finance nuclear plants so that we could convert to hydrogen or battery in the event of another oil price shock. And hydrogen storage tanks, and car conversion kits. And in making both electric and fuel distribution grids more robust and less subject to disruption or terrorist attack. The nuke plants would generate returns that would pay for the financing. ...more »

DannyTN's energy plan
The bulk of the stimulus should go to finance nuclear plants so that we could convert to hydrogen or battery in the event of another oil price shock. And hydrogen storage tanks, and car conversion kits. And in making both electric and fuel distribution grids more robust and less subject to disruption or terrorist attack.
The nuke plants would generate returns that would pay for the financing.
The overhead of the nuke plants could be allocated out to normal electric customers and excess electricity could be sold to hydrogen producers for variable direct cost without overhead. That would further reduce fuel costs.
The National Hydrogen Association> believes that hydrogen fuel could be delivered to stations for a cost of $1.20 per gasoline gallon equivalent and that's before considering my suggestion to allow hydrogen producers electricity at cheaper variable direct cost rates.
You could require that all the raw materials for both the nuke plants and the hydrogen tanks come from the U.S. as long as unemployment remains above 6%.
Build enough for at least a 3 state region, and then implement it. If you can really get the cost down that far and demonstrate it, the free market will finance the rest of the country. But if you can't, you still have an alternative in place that can be quickly implemented to reduce oil demand if oil prices shoot up again.

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Real Time Emissions Tracking

Provide public real time data on the energy use and associated green house gas emissions of all government buildings, vehicles and programs.

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Energy Competition

Create a national "Performance Dashboard" on energy efficiency, showing energy performance over time of homes, companies, cities, counties, federal government etc. Use the site to highlight groups that are being successful, as well as the techniques they are using (Technology and Behavior) to reduce energy usage. Use as a foundation for a national energy award (Sort of like Baldridge is for Quality) Establish the ...more »

Create a national "Performance Dashboard" on energy efficiency, showing energy performance over time of homes, companies, cities, counties, federal government etc. Use the site to highlight groups that are being successful, as well as the techniques they are using (Technology and Behavior) to reduce energy usage. Use as a foundation for a national energy award (Sort of like Baldridge is for Quality)
Establish the system with open standards that let innovative technology companies, researchers, etc link their systems into a national data feed for open collaboration.

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Submitted by Jim Williams 3 years ago
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EMINENT DOMAIN FOR PATENTS that benefit the planet.

YOu all have heard of eminent domain where the government can require you to sell your property to make way for some infrastructure necessary for the public good. My thought is that this principle should also apply to technological inventions which would really do the world a lot of good. It is well known that many patents which threaten the business of powerful corporations have been bought up and sat by these same corporations ...more »

YOu all have heard of eminent domain where the government can require you to sell your property to make way for some infrastructure necessary for the public good. My thought is that this principle should also apply to technological inventions which would really do the world a lot of good. It is well known that many patents which threaten the business of powerful corporations have been bought up and sat by these same corporations to protect profits.. Automakers for example sat on plans for engines that run on water, for electric cars and bought up railroads and let them rot to lessen competition for travel by automobile. I think it's high time for this practice to stop.
I propose that patents be regularly reviewed and that if it is deemed necessary for the good of the planet or the health of the population that the gov't may buy the patent from the patent holder for a reasonable fee and make the invention publicly owned and publicly accessible information.
This would spur the development of and make available new technologies which would help solve our energy source problems, oil dependence, pollution, and global warming to name just a few. It would also boost the economy as there would be work in R& D and in producing the technology and bringing it to market.
Why should intellectual property be treated differently than real property. If it is needed for the common good, let's buy it at a fair price and make it information or technology available. We need to use every resource we have to resolve the issues we are now facing.

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Dam Efficiency (making use of every available resource)

The following article appeared in a copy of New Scientist awhile back. " HOT ANSWER TO SHAKY PROBLEM To damp down problem vibrations in aircraft, cars, buildings and power tools researchers working for the US army in Virginia have designed a material that dissipates the vibrational energy as heat (US 2005/0073222). The plastic or concrete materials contain particles of piezoelectric ceramic and a web of ...more »

The following article appeared in a copy of New Scientist awhile back.
" HOT ANSWER TO SHAKY PROBLEM
To damp down problem vibrations in aircraft, cars, buildings and power tools researchers working for the US
army in Virginia have designed a material that dissipates the vibrational energy as heat (US 2005/0073222).
The plastic or concrete materials contain particles of piezoelectric ceramic and a web of conductive wires. When
the ceramic vibrates, the particles generate electricity, which heats the wires. The heat is absorbed by the
surrounding material and dispersed into the air. The loss of energy to the piezoelectric material damps the vibrations before they build and begin to resonate."
Skimming through the patent I couldn't find any suggestions that they should use the generated heat for anything. This
is understandable since they were looking to reduce vibrations and not generate power. It does give rise to a couple of possible applications though.
1. Line the floors in hydroelectric plants with this material to take advantage of the vibrations generated by the huge turbines in there. If nothing else, there might be enough energy to cut down on the power needs of the dam itself.
2. Line the body of aircraft with this material in such a way that if the plane lost electrical power the system could be quickly converted from dissipating heat to converting it into electrical energy.
Of course, both of these ideas might already be tucked into the patent somewhere (or left out because they were unfeasible). I'm just adding the idea here in case the oversight was accidental.

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Small business / residential energy efficiency

I believe that a combination of tax credits, rebates, low interest start up loans and federal subsidies, and an effort to encourage state and local compliance and cooperation should be used to help small, independent businesses with the goal of improving residential home energy efficiency. Helping residences get up to date weatherization, improve the efficiency of the appliances, perhaps adding solar panels and/or other ...more »

I believe that a combination of tax credits, rebates, low interest start up loans and federal subsidies, and an effort to encourage state and local compliance and cooperation should be used to help small, independent businesses with the goal of improving residential home energy efficiency.
Helping residences get up to date weatherization, improve the efficiency of the appliances, perhaps adding solar panels and/or other alternative, sustainable energy sources will help the homeowners reduce their yearly energy costs, help the contractors provide employment, help the manufacturers by creating a demand.
Tax credits or rebates should be made available for residential alternative energy installations, even when the new installation won't pay for itself in the short run. Every kilowatt hour not provided by the existing grid helps our country break its dependence on foreign oil, as does every house that improves its weatherization, appliance efficiency, etc.

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