Here is some information from the Sierra Club and a copy of a letter I sent to Wisc. senators using the Sierra Club's "TAKE ACTION" site. (You don't have to be a member of the Sierra Club to be on the "Sierra Club Currents" mailing list.)
Mike Neuman. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------- Sierra Club Currents - If the Science Fits Volume IV, #14 Thursday, February 19, 2004 To sign up for Sierra Club Currents visit: http://lists.sierraclub.org/SCRIPTS/WA.EXE?SUBED1=currents&A=1 ---- TAKE ACTION: Bush Administration Energy Bill Bounces Back Like an Opera star singing a final aria, the Bush Administration energy bill just refuses to get off the stage and be done with it. In the latest backroom deal, the Administration and Senate Republican leadership have resurrected the flawed energy bill that was successfully blocked in the Senate last November. The new energy bill could come up for a vote on the Senate floor as soon as February 23rd. Tell your Senators to stand up once and again and reject this backwards and dangerous energy bill: http://www.sierraclub.org/action/?alid=285&st=curr ---- Sierra Club Legislative Hotline - (202) 675-2394 Sierra Club National Headquarters - (415) 977-5500 Sierra Club World Wide Web - http://www.sierraclub.org Sierra Club Vote Watch Website - http://www.sierraclub.org/votewatch/ White House Comment Line - (202) 456-1111 White House Fax Line - (202) 456-2461 President George W. Bush's e-mail - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vice President Dick Cheney's e-mail - [EMAIL PROTECTED] White House Address - 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, Washington, DC 20500 US Capitol Switchboard - (202) 224-3121 To contact your senators - http://www.senate.gov/contacting/index.cfm To contact your representative - http://www.house.gov/writerep ============================================================= February 29, 2004 Letter sent to: Sen Russ D Feingold Sen Herbert Kohl Subject: Reject The Energy Bill America needs a smart energy policy that increases our energy security and protects the environment. As Congress returns this year, some Senators will try to revive the presently stalled Bush energy bill. This destructive bill will not solve America's energy problems and deserves to remain where it is - dead in the water. This backwards bill puts our communities at risk to more air and water pollution, increases the country's oil dependence, fails to modernize the electricity grid, and saddles taxpayers with billions of dollars in corporate giveaways. I urge you to reject the energy bill and focus attention on clean energy solutions. There is a better way. Congress should pass legislation that cuts our country's dependence on oil, increases our use of clean, renewable energy sources, like wind and solar power, protects our public lands, and modernizes the electricity grid to prevent future blackouts. The bill currently before the Senate fails on all counts. Please continue to reject this backwards energy bill and start pursuing clean energy solutions that take America forward. Above all, I believe it is essential for the United States to begin to CONSERVE ENERGY NOW to minimize our overall contribution of greenhouse gases from fuel burning from ALL fuel sources. The reason that greenhouses gases continue to build in the atmosphere to an increasingly more dangerous level is because of America's excessive use of motorized travel and its failure to responsively conserve electricity year round and heat energy in winter. The U.S. is the largest greenhouse gas emitting country in terms of total annual quantities emitted; therefore, the U.S. has a moral responsibility -- to all humanity -- to do everything in its power to reduce its greenhouse gas emission burden on the atmosphere. Yet, it continues to shirk that responsibility, risking human and animal life now and especially in the future, as greenhouse gases in the atmosphere continue to build. There is an urgent need for our senators in the Congress to make a profound statement and set the wheels in motion to confront the grave problem of global warming before things go too far. The energy bill is the appropriate place and time to do that. I urge you to reject this energy bill and enact one that will substantially increase energy conservation, through the use of financial incentives for reducing motorized travel, flying and energy use in the home, and in business as well. I proposed a plan to do that in 2000. Following are links to my proposal: "CONSERVE, NOW!: Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Other Environmental Costs by Offering Financial Incentives that Reward Less Driving, Flying and Home Energy Use" http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ClimateArchive/message/229 http://danenet.wicip.org/bcp/neuman_gw.pdf http://danenet.danenet.org/bcp/neuman_gw_letter.pdf Sincerely, Michael Neuman - end of letter and post ------- ________________________________________________________________ The best thing to hit the Internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! Surf the Web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! 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