DO THE MATH!!!

DO THE MATH! The commonly available nightlight found in America’s bathrooms, bedrooms and kitchens uses a seven watt incandescent bulb. Now there are a number of LED nightlights available which use far less energy. If you compare the two nightlights above, both made by the same company, the LED uses only .3 Watts compared to 7 watts for the familiar incandescent bulb. Using 7 watts rather than .3 watts means using 23.3 times the power to do the same job. Why would you do this??!!

There are uncountable millions of conventional incandescent seven-watt night-lights in use in the United States. However, assuming just one million of these were replaced at the same time, the replacement lights would require 300,000 watts of power instead of 7,000,000 watts.

This year, replacing conventional incandescent lighting in our home has reduced our electric bill by about a third. Our nightlights, the smallest of our incandescent lights, were replaced last. Anyone can save money on their electric bill by switching to cfls and led lights. There is no longer an issue of availability. They are on the shelves at your hardware store, Home Depot and Wal-Mart’s.

Corporate America is rapidly going green. As oil, gas and electricity prices have gone ever upward companies there is a growing awareness that saving energy translates into lower, sometimes dramatically lower costs.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118772418179504367.html


Many American cities are providing leadership in the areas of energy independence and global warming. All yellow taxis in the city of New York will berequired to use hybrid technology and meet new fuel consumption standards by 2012. According to Mayor Bloomberg: "Phased in over the next five years, these new standards will cut carbon emissions from these vehicles by half within a decade."

http://www.voanews.com/english/archive/2007-05/2007-05-24-voa33.cfm?CFID=184362152&CFTOKEN=87906977

In Washington D.C., a non-profit consortium of leading Washington-area businesses, institutions, government agencies, congregations, and community and environmental organizations called Cool Capital Challenge, is working to bring about an immediate and dramatic reduction in regional greenhouse gas.

http://www.coolcapitalchallenge.org

There is, regrettably, no coherent leadership at the Federal level. America needs a comprehensive national policy, which recognizes national security, energy independence, and global warming are closely linked issue. Issues which must be urgently and simultaneously addressed. America MUST reduce energy consumption, both by reducing the waste of energy and becoming much more energy efficient. America MUST brings on line, as rapidly as possible, EVERY source of clean, renewable domestic energy available to us.

Oil From Heaven

OIL FROM HEAVEN! This past July oil started to flow from the Albertan oil sands in Canada to petrochemical plants and refineries in southeast Texas. From a current national security standpoint, this is indeed “oil from heaven.” Certainly, the security issues of importing oil from Canada are smaller than importing oil from the Middle East and other politically unstable areas. However, it doesn’t do anything for energy independence. According to a July 11th Wall St Journal article: “The rising tide of Canadian crude is subtly changing the political rhetoric in Washington. "Energy independence" is being redefined so that Canadian crude isn't really viewed as an import.”

http://www.polarisinstitute.org/oil_companies_stake_future_on_canada

It IS imported oil. Imported from a country, with which the United States has excellent relations, but imported oil non-the-less. Additionally, as Canada’s own energy needs increase, Americans certainly cannot expect Canadians are going to sit around in the dark in order to meet our energy needs here in the USA.

The clock is ticking on America’s energy crisis, if there is not a significant improvement in energy conservation, and we simply gobble up every barrel of oil we get, our future pain will be all the greater. To continue to use the same or a greater amount of fossil fuel certainly will not reduce our national carbon footprint.


National Security, energy independence and global warming are closely linked issues, which must be urgently and simultaneously addressed. Americans MUST break their addiction to imported oil. We MUST become much more energy efficient. We must bring on line, as rapidly as possible, EVERY source of clean, renewable domestic energy available to us.

There are promising new technologies which could make a big difference. Imagine an “EZ Pass for Emissions" - a tiny device that connects to a car's onboard computer and continuously tracks a vehicle’s emissions in real time. The device exists:

http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fsb/fsb_archive/2007/07/01/100123042/index.htm

Imagine that in 2006 solar cell manufacturers bought more silicon wafers that the chip industry. That’s just what happened – see the current issue of Forbes magazine.

Imagine that presently the United States has no comprehensive and coherent national policy for urgently and simultaneously meeting the challenges of national security, energy independence and global warming. Unfortunately, we don’t.

We need all ”three cherries” to win the jackpot!



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