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Yes, revolution, but as the title states, it's not what you may think. In this case, I say Revolution as in drastic change, and when I say change I mean the kind of change you can believe in.
On to the show. So you say you want a Revolution? How about a solar energy revolution?
Thomas Edison, one of history's greatest inventors said; "I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that." He was right then, in 1931, and he remains right today. The American people agree. Today, 92 percent of all Americans want our country to develop solar energy resources, and 77 percent believe the federal government should make solar power development a national priority.
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It also would mean the creation of over a million new jobs.
The Wonk Room (@ ThinkProgress.org) spoke with Perlmutter today, who explained the economic benefit that he hopes the GREEN Act will have for American households, and particularly those with low- to moderate-incomes:
It helps low- and moderate-incomes. It helps all income levels, because utility costs have been going up for, you know, the last umpteen years. And particularly for low- to moderate-income earners, that's a big part of their discretionary income, what they have left over at the end of the month, after paycheck and groceries and everything else. So if we can help them control or even shrink utility costs, it's like a pay raise to those people...We're hoping to shrink energy costs by 30 percent.
(Thanks Glenn. We know you have been working very hard. - promoted by admin)
Time and time again Ralph Hall tells voters that American soldiers will have to "fight a war and take some energy away from someone." Does this represent your values? It doesn't represent mine. I believe it's time to stop talking about stealing and to start investing in America.
My campaign has produced a short video using Hall's own words to expose his values. Please circulate it to your family and friends.
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I just got a great email update from the Charlie Brown (CA-04) campaign. Not only do the polls have Charlie in the lead, but they have released a solid district plan and have countered lies by the political hack opponent.
Meanwhile, the vast oil fields off the coast of Florida that American law prevents Americans from developing are now being drained by the Chinese government drilling in Cuban waters.
I must have missed the resurgence of this assertion with all of the convention hype. I last reported on July 9 that two of the House incumbents that we are looking to take out, Mike Rogers (AL-03) and Mark Kirk (IL-10) were still erroneously pushing this myth. Now two months this story resurfaces after it has been proven false several times.
I guess one of McClintock's novice staffers googled energy found a story on energy, cut the quote and pasted into the writing. Don't bother fact checking Tom.
Below the fold read about how John Doolittle's top aid was indicted on 10 counts of public corruption
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