America Achieve Energy
Independence within 30 years
To
achieve this end, I propose three phases:
Phase
1 – Dramatically Increase U.
S. Energy from All Sources – 2008-2012
o
Permit safe
drilling everywhere on the continental shelf,
o
Permit safe
extraction of oil shale,
o
Permit safe
and limited drilling in the ANWR oil fields of Alaska,
o
Permit the
building of additional environmentally safe, clean coal power plants,
o
Encourage
the use of safe coal-gasification or syngas,
o
Immediately
change federal regulations and tax policy to encourage investment in
additional
building of new oil refineries,
o
Encourage
the research, development and production of biomass fuels from non-food
sources,
o
Pass any
legislation necessary to help current ethanol investors, managers and
employees
transition to future biofuels products,
o
Initiate a National Center for
Energy, controlled by a
public-private board, that will provide significant incentives to develop renewable,
safe, plentiful, and
cheap energy,
o
Explore
diplomatic ways of breaking the oil cartels.
New
high paying domestic jobs will be created by all of the
above as we move towards American made energy -wouldn’t GM -Janesville
be an ideal plant for hybrid cars
and trucks to be built?
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Phase 2 –
Increase American Made Energy– 2012-2035
o
Have new
nuclear power plants dominate new plant licensing between 2015-2035 by
immediately changing federal regulations to permit the building of safe
nuclear
plants now,
o
Encourage
alternative fuel uses wherever they can be competitively priced,
especially in
transportation,
Today
we send over 700 Billion dollars a year for oil to
hostile, rogue or unfriendly countries in the world. What could we do
with an
“extra” 700 Billion dollars here in America
while weakening their
economies?
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Phase 3 –
Energy Self-Sufficiency – 2030-2038
o
Energy
breakthroughs in renewable fuels brought about by private industry and
the National
Center
for Energy are brought on line
providing secure, safe, plentiful, and cheap fuels which will likely
include
wind, solar, hydrogen, and biofuels (non-food based).
The economic standard must be that all fuels
competing on an equal footing with no government defined winners and
losers –
but I believe that renewable fuels will then be the cheapest.
How
can I as a potential freshman Member of Congress hope to
be heard and get action on this energy plan?
•
Well,
first, I will exercise leadership, something the incumbent
hasn’t done in 10
years – that alone will get something done.
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Second, I
am a Conservative and as such will work with other
conservatives—the only group
in Congress who have energy policies that will bring prices down.
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Third, I
will work to mobilize the people of South Central Wisconsin to support
change. That
includes both getting their
support and involving them anywhere I can in developing solutions
through task
forces of both experts and citizens.
I
do not plan to work alone.
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Fourth, I
will speak out. I
will speak, write, and
be interviewed. I will work to develop public proposals. I will
cooperate with
like-minded people, regardless of party affiliation.
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Fifth, I
believe that a cohesive, realistic and reasonable plan attracts support
and
encourages other policy-makers to look at the problem as a whole. Together, as energy
reformers, we will have
results.
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Sixth, I
will be a reformer and a nonconformist to Washington as
usual. Rep. Klug
was such a person. For
example he worked with other new Members
of Congress to bring down the corrupt house bank.
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Finally, I
will introduce legislation on this plan and seek sponsors. That is the job of a
Member of Congress and I
will do that job.
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