Email Your Senator Today!
Hey Army!
The stimulus package passed the U.S. House of Representatives and is now in the Senate. You know how this deal works: Each of the two houses of Congress works on its own version of the bill, then they have to get together and work out the differences before it gets sent to President Obama.
I need you to contact your U.S. Senators and ask them to support the Pickens Plan components of the stimulus package. Click here to send them an email today.
Reports from the Senate indicate that getting our items into the bill will be an uphill battle – but it is still possible. We hope these will take the form of incentives such as tax credits or grants.
The House bill contained a lot of the items we have been pushing for in the Pickens Plan on the wind side of the plan. I need your help in telling your U.S. Senators to leave those in, but we need more attention on moving our national heavy truck fleet from imported diesel to domestic natural gas.
We want the Senate to allow trucking companies – large and small truckers who operate 18-wheelers – to get a tax break for buying trucks that run on natural gas.
If we can get just 350,000 of the 6.5 million 18-wheelers running on natural gas, we can cut our foreign oil dependence by over five percent!
Remember, in December – even with the economy coming to a halt – we still imported almost 380 million barrels of oil. About a quarter of that oil is used for diesel fuel to run 18-wheelers.
That will not only cut down on foreign oil, but it will add jobs as the heavy truck manufacturers hire (or retain) workers to build the new natural gas engines.
I need you to contact your U.S. Senators to tell them to support the Pickens Plan. Click here to send an email today.
-- Boone
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This post was modified from its original form on 19 Nov, 17:53
The Australian Government will soon announce its greenhouse gas pollution reduction target for 2020. This critical decision will influence upcoming global climate change negotiations so you're voice needs to be heard.
Let Australian political leaders know its time for them to take decisive action on climate change
The world's leading climate scientists believe that we must reduce greenhouse gas pollution by 25%-40% below 1990 levels if we are to avoid the worst impacts of climate change.
Australia has the skills, resources and technology to significantly reduce emissions over the next 10 years. As a wealthy developed country, with ample sources of low emission energy such as geothermal, solar and wind, Australia should be willing to reduce its greenhouse gas pollution by at least 25% below 1990 levels by 2020.
Thank you,
WWF International
