Write Your Congressman & Senators Today
To Ask They VOTE YES on R.E.S.
A Message from Steven Oppenheimer
R.E.S. or Renewable Energy Standards will establish guidelines for 25% of America's energy to be produced from RENEWABLE energy by 2025.
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Passage of the Renewable Energy Standard creates market mechanisms to ensure that a growing percentage of electricity is produced from RENEWABLE ENERGY sources (see Dept of Energy link below) such as wind, biomass, solar & hydroelectric. Only legislation will create a predictable, competitive market, within which renewable generators compete with each other to lower prices. Renewable Energy Policies currently exist in 28 U.S. states, but not at the national level. Renewable energy occurs in nature, in contrast to non-renewable energy or Fossil fuels, created in finite quantities, millions of years ago, by the decay or organic matter. Renewable Energy is clean.
In 2008, nearly 50% of America's new electricity production came from Renewable Energy & America surpassed Germany to became the world's #1producer of electricity from wind!
Today is a unique moment in history; the leaders want change but they need the citizens help to break the political gridlock. POLICY, the adoption of legislation, creates LONG TERM PLANNING to supplant POLITICAL discourse & rhetoric that produces policy changes every 2 years as Congress changes. American ENERGY SECURITY will bring a cleaner, healthier era. The "Green Revolution" which will create jobs (35,000 new jobs last year in renewable energy), scientific innovation as well as building an economy based on creation, rather than consumption.
Southeastern U.S citizens have an increased urgency to contact elected representatives. We must let our representatives that we know they know there is really an abundance of available Renewable Energy Sources in the Southeast (as cited in the reference articles below) to counteract large southeastern electric companies' (among the dirtiest and most profitable) lobbyists misinforming Congress that adequate Renewable Energy Sources are not available in the Southeast! The status quo "Good old boy network," of utility collusion with local Public Service Commissions to enable the continued production of electricity from the cheapest and dirtiest source available - coal - MUST CHANGE.
CHANGE will come only when OUR VOICE demands NEW POLICY to safeguard America's future, looking beyond the current market interests of the utility companies! In 1973 America was crippled by the first Arab Oil Embargo. For nearly 40 years of energy "boom and bust" Congress has failed to lead and adopt a long term Energy Policy for America's Energy Security. It's time for the people to lead!
-A Message From Stephen Oppenheimer, DDS
oppyga@aol.com
References:
Sufficient Renewable Energy to Meet 30 percent of the Southeast's Electric Power Needs within the next 15 years www.cleanenergy.org/images/stories/local_clean_power_wri.sace.southface.pdf
Georgia Tech Study Finds Wind Power Feasible Off Georgia Coast
www.gatech.edu/newsroom/release.html?id=1437
Forbes Magazine: Georgia 3rd State in Nation for Biomass Energy
http://www.forbes.com/2008/07/09/energy-solar-green-biz-energy-cx_bp_0709atlas_slide_23.html
US Department of Energy; Renewable & Non Renewable Energy
www.eia.doe.gov/kids/energyfacts/sources/whatsenergy.html