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Dear Mr. President,
I would like to thank you for
your continued support of the energy efficiency and renewable energy
industry here in America. I would also like to commend you for your
conviction last night in regards to the facts of Climate Change and its
affects on our environment and our economy.
For too long our Nation and
its leaders have ignored the sientifict facts as well as the
opportunities presented by Climate Change.
In 2008 just before you won
the presidency our organization was the first entity in over forty years
to prepare and present a United States Energy Master Plan to Congress.
The plan was inclusive of many of the ideas that you presented last evening and many that you did not.
The first bullet point for
success was that there be created an organization of thinkers and
businessmen to create sound National energy policy. No one in government
listened so our organization, the National Green Energy Council created the National Energy Security Agency ™( NESA).
NESA is
beginning to coallate the brightest minds to create an amazing United
States Energy Policy. I hope that your new Energy Secretary will be part
of this endeavor.
The next bullet point for success was the creation by our organization of the Green Jobs Corps ™. This
program was to create educational training classes in the energy sector
for the opportunity of training millions of new workers for jobs in
energy efficiency retrofitting, weatherization and renewable energy.
Since 2008 our organization
has partnered with synergy organizations, non profits and academic
universities to create over 100 educational curricula to assist the
unemployed, returning military men and women and college students to
begin to educate themselves about the industry of the future....energy.
Our progress in this amazing
program has educated thousands of Americans from California to Florida
but has been devoid of US Department of Education involvement and
support and I hope that you can impress upon your Education Secretary,
Arne Duncan to be an active proponent of our program.
The facts as you stated them
last evening are that there are more Americans employed in the US Wind
Industry than there are in the US Steel Industry. States like New Jersey
with sucessful renewable energy programs are still hiring men and women
in the solar industry in a questionable economy.
Many other amazing ideas were created in our 2008 US Energy Master Plan. Another was the creation of the Green Energy Infrastructure Bank,
a US Government funded entity that should be created to invest in new
infrastructure projects such as the digitization of the US Power Grid,
an antiquated and dangerous situation balancing on cataclysmic
proportions to our national security. One so potentially crippling that
the US Military has now committed to remove all 23 million acres of US
Military Installations completely off the grid by 2025.
Just replacing over 160,000
linear miles of overhead antiquated power lines here in America could
create over 1 million new jobs. The Clinton Global Initative estimated
after its involvement in the energy efficiency retrofits of the Empire
State building completed late last year, that $1 billion invested in
energy effficiency and weatherization here in America can create 7000
new jobs. Why are we not retrofitting every one of our Federal
Government buildings to create millions of new jobs while saving US
Taxpayers millions of dollars?
Spawned from the investment potential of the Green Energy Infrastructure Bank our organization suggested to Congress and US Secretary of Treasury, Staurt Levey that there be the creation of Green Energy Investment Trusts with similar tax benefits of Real Estate Investment Trusts. Our organization was confident and still is that the creation of GEITs
would create enoromous investment in assisting ESCO financing to
businesses all across our nation while creating economic investment for
the United States in other countries with struggling economies and high
energy costs.
Last night Mr. President you
announced that two lawyers were going to be appointed to assist the
antiquated voting system here in the United States. Please do not
appoint lawyers and accountants to make a plan for the United States
Energy Security, but call upon the existing Non Government
Organizations, Non Profits and Advocacy Goups whose members know the
opportunities for economic recovery that a cleaner energy future can
bring.
Facts remain even though
people will refute them. Fossil fuel sources are finite. The best
scientists in the world estimate that we only have just over 100 years
left of oil and natural gas, yet every day the sun shines enough power
every second to power the entire Earth for 9 million years, shouldnt we
find a way to store that energy surplus?
Shouldn't we invest in the
research to store renewable energy from the sun, wind and waves in new
storage technologies? Shouldnt we have an energy policy that brings
energy security past the 100 year mark?
Mr. President please end the
Nuclear and Oil subsidies and pour that money into funding Utility Scale
Renewable Energy Projects on and off US Military Installations. Let us
use that money to fund new green technology manufacturing plants and
finally let us use that money to fund scholarship prpgrams to educate
the unemployed,returning servicemen and women and our college students
in the research, energy and engineering filelds so that once again the
world can look toward the innovation,integrity and brilliance of the
United States of America.
The greatest Nation on Earth..
With warm regards,
Ralph Avallone
President
National Green Energy Council
P.S.
Thomas Jefferson said that every generation needs a revolution, Mr.
President won't you join me in the Great Green Revolution???
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