Energy fuels US foreign policy and our sons and daughters are fighting and dying in Iraq for energy that can be had right here. My own son is permanently disabled after two tours in Iraq fighting for energy. It is time for an energy revolution. We have the ability to pull off a power generation coup right here in Oregon with community owned, wide scale renewable distributed energy.
These concepts are not dreams they have and are being accomplished in Europe right now. We can wrest control of our energy needs back into the hands of the people and sweep energy independence from Salem across the nation to the US Congress. We can bring our kids home and put them to work manufacturing and building energy independence – REAL national security.
Reference:
Calculating the Real Cost of Industrial Wind Power = http://essexcountywind.files.wordpress.com/2007/12/wind_cost_report-pdf.pdf
Community vs Corporate Wind - http://cda.mrs.umn.edu/~kildegac/CV/Papers/IREE.pdf
Distributed Generation in Oregon: Overview, Regulatory Barriers and Recommendations - http://www.oregon.gov/PUC/electric_gas/dg_report.pdf
Trade deficit widest in 14 months –J umps 9.3% in November; Commerce Department says oil imports, weak dollar contributed to the $63.1 billion deficit. http://money.cnn.com/2008/01/11/news/economy/bc.apfn.economy.ap/
http://www.ourfuture.org/real-state-union-2008-numbers
Survey of State Support for Community Wind Power Development
http://www.oregon.gov/ENERGY/RENEW/Wind/docs/community_wind_statesupport_LBL.pdf
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