My Reply to Russ Carnahan

Hi Russ,

I'm so very glad to receive your message and I am extremely excited that you're backing The Picken's Plan. I think, at this point, this is our best avenue for success in getting the economy back on track and bringing jobs back home and also in creating new jobs and sources of revenue. In my previous email that I had sent to you, I had mentioned of recycling and reducing our landfills by cleaning them up and pulling out the recyclable materials, which can create a commodities revenue, create more jobs and fund alternative/renewable energy research, development, and installations.

Please give this a thought, as this process can be started NOW, without R&D and financial deployment. I feel that there should also be a push and incentive to all of the "waste management" companies to provide a "recycling" service within all of our counties.

I was recently informed by a friend who lives in Arnold, MO that his waste service is now providing large recycling containers and will take ALL of the recyclable materials. Unfortunately, my local waste company does not provide this service, thus I utilize my local recycling center located in Byrnes Mill, MO, once per week. I have reduced my actual output of "trash" from 2-3 trash cans down to one that is only half full and recycle two trash cans full of materials per week. I think if we can get more consumers to begin recycling, we can lessen our impact on the environment, as well as creating, as I had mentioned, a commodities revenue to assist with the alternative/renewable energy projects that would benefit our great state of Missouri.

Thanks for all of your hard work!

--Ken Stulce
kstulce@gmail.com
http://altenergypolitics.blogspot.com

A recent message from Russ Carnahan

Today, I received this email from the Missouri Democratic Congressman Russ Carnahan and it's looking like he's totally backing the Picken's Plan. Way to go Russ!

Dear MR Stulce:

Thank you for contacting me in regard to America's energy needs. I appreciate hearing from you and I welcome the chance to respond to you.

In order to address this energy crisis, we need to fundamentally change the way America powers itself. While the United States has almost 3 percent of the world's oil reserves, we use 24 percent of the world's oil. We have more oil wells than any other country on Earth. And no matter how many more we drill, we will never again pump as much as we did during the1970s. Even self-described oilman, T. Boone Pickens said, "This is one emergency we can't drill our way out of." I agree with this statement, and believe that we must address the root of the problem - America's addiction to oil.

As you are aware, Pickens has developed a plan calling for the replacement of 20% of our energy requirements, currently supplied by foreign oil, with wind energy. Using wind energy also frees up our vast stores of natural gas which can then be used to power our cars with significantly lower carbon dioxide emissions and allows us more time to develop new cleaner energy sources. His plan is consistent with the plans supported by the Democratic Congress - break the grip of foreign oil while developing our own vast natural renewable and clean energy resources. Developing our own energy resources keeps our money and our jobs here and makes America more secure.

Please be assured that since coming to Congress, I have been working hard for all of my constituents to reduce our dependence on foreign oil, bring down record gas prices, and launch a cleaner, smarter energy future for America that lowers energy costs while creating hundreds of thousands of good paying green jobs and securing America's future.

Please know that I will continue to support and encourage legislation that will achieve these goals. Once again, thank you for contacting me. Please do not hesitate to contact me in the future on this or any other issue of concern.

The Wrong Palin

With all of this ecstatic debating and political upheaval spreading throughout the lands, I just have to take a moment and put out a message:

The Republicans settled for the WRONG PALIN!

Here's who they should have picked: "http://www.michaelpalinforpresident.com/".

Sorry, Tension Break....It had to be done!