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The following is a letter that I sent to my Congressman, Jerry
McNerney. This is particularly effective in that McNerney has a PhD in
Math and a career in wind energy development and deployment. <br>
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<pre wrap="">Jerry,
I have supported you for a long time, writing newspaper columns calling
for voting Pombo out and you in both in 2004 and 2006. Now, I need to
tell you what has to happen for you to continue getting my support.
To begin with, you know and I know that climate change changes
everything. There is nothing more important than dealing with this.
If you want to cut health care costs, you must deal with climate change
before tropical diseases like malaria invade the US and valley fever
become even more wide spread. The latter only killed 200 last year.
If you want to fix the economy, you must deal with climate change as the
costs of trying to mitigate its effects later will devastate our
country's economy. The entire Obama economic plan depends on returning
to an era of growth the help pay off the debts that we are incurring
now. The effects of climate change may be that such growth never occurs
just at the time that we need to be building Netherlands style dikes to
protect half of your district from flooding.
Neither Waxman - Markey nor Kerry - Boxer will really achieve their
alleged goals. Those who cheated on mortgage back equities will cheat
on trading pollution credits. Neither bill really takes on coal. They
still talk of the mythological clean coal. Duke Energy has pulled out
of the Clean Coal Coalition and Jim Rogers, it's CEO, says this about
carbon capture and sequestration:
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<pre wrap=""><span class="moz-txt-citetags"></span>He argued that it's unlikely that the United States will be able to <span
class="moz-txt-citetags"></span>develop and bring to scale carbon-capture-and-storage - often called <span
class="moz-txt-citetags"></span>"clean coal" technology. "I think there's no way we can scale in this <span
class="moz-txt-citetags"></span>country," he said. "It's more likely that China will develop and bring <span
class="moz-txt-citetags"></span>CCS to scale. I'd like to be China for a day so we can get CCS done. <span
class="moz-txt-citetags"></span>They're more likely to get it scaled and deployed than we are. We're <span
class="moz-txt-citetags"></span><!---->going to be buying their technology." (Source: Washington Independent <<a
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href="http://washingtonindependent.com/59578/duke-energy-ceo-questions-viability">http://washingtonindependent.com/59578/duke-energy-ceo-questions-viability</a>-
of-clean-coal-technology-future-of-coal></pre>
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<pre wrap="">I expect to hear you telling the truth about where we are headed and to see you working for much stronger legislation than we currently see.
The alternative is to work for someone else who will promise to get this
job done, no matter what party they are from.
Wes
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<pre class="moz-signature" cols="80">--
"Anytime you have an opportunity to make things better and you don't, then you are wasting your time on this Earth" Roberto Clemente
Wes Rolley
17211 Quail Court, Morgan Hill, CA 95037
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.refpub.com/">http://www.refpub.com/</a> -- Tel: 408.778.3024</pre>
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