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Let’s get to 120 by 11/20/09

Army:

What a couple of weeks it’s been and I have lots to report and something very important to ask.

There’s a new Natural Gas Caucus in the U.S. House of Representatives which is headed by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA) and Rep. Dan Boren (D-OK).  The more than 40 bi-partisan members of the caucus held a major hearing on Capitol Hill.  The Natural Gas Caucus talked about how the development of America’s natural gas resources will help set America on a path to energy independence and create millions of new jobs.  It was a great event and an important message to get out there.

But here’s the really important part.

We’ve got just under 100 cosponsors of the NAT GAS Act (H.R. 1835) in the House—and that’s great—but I think we can educate more Members of Congress, build on that support and do a lot more.

Click here to email your Member of Congress and ask them to become a cosponsor of the NAT GAS Act.

I think we can get at least another 20+ cosponsors in the coming weeks so I’m calling on every member of the Army to reach out to their Member of Congress right now so that we can get to at least 120 sponsors by November 20th.  I’m calling it 120 by 11-20.

I’m going to be working the phones and I need you to as well.  Army, we can get this done and show Congress that it’s time to end our dependence on foreign oil.

Click here to email your Member of Congress and ask them to become a cosponsor of the NAT GAS Act.

Stay tuned because we’re going to post regular updates about our progress and highlight those members who are working to get us off foreign oil.

Let’s keep the pressure on!

– Boone

P.S.  We recently ran an ad in the news publications which cover Capitol Hill. Click here to view the short video we did about this really unique ad.  It’s getting people’s attention.

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Comments2 Responses to “Let’s get to 120 by 11/20/09”

October 29th, 2009 at 9:09 am

Michael R. Wimberly


Amy I plan to join in this afternoon's discussion on line. Regards Michael R. Paper: Houston Chronicle Date: Thursday Oct 29, 2009 Section: B Page: 9 Edition: 3 STAR Weak dollar poses risks The Chronicle's editorial “Dollar's daze” (Page B8, Thursday) accurately describes how a weak dollar adversely affects our economy by driving gasoline prices to $4 a gallon and further increasing our foreign balance of payments deficit. A weak dollar will spur U.S. exports, but this advantage will be short-lived because it increases the cost of all imported products, not just oil. This complicates our domestic and foreign policies by continuing the financial support of unfriendly foreign supplier-nations who want the dollar dumped for foreign exchange. The only program in this recession capable of stopping the dollar decline while priming our economy is the Pickens Plan, aimed at converting all diesel trucks and buses to domestically produced natural gas. At the same time we must recognize the negative impact of large gasoline engines for personal use by imposing an impact fee to influence a conversion to smaller engines. These plans would preclude the need to increase the gasoline tax while virtually eliminating imported oil. Let individuals decide how big an engine they need and use the impact fee to compensate for the lost gasoline tax. Both programs will cut U.S. oil consumption more than 50 percent, eliminate $150 billion in imported oil annually and have a significant “green” impact. These are real savings that will be annually reinvested as a stimulus to our domestic economy, not in the Middle East or Venezuela. Besides Canada, the U.S. is perhaps the only industrialized nation capable of energy independence. What are you willing to pay to save our nation's economy and our way of life? MICHAEL R. WIMBERLY Houston

October 29th, 2009 at 9:15 am

Michael R. Wimberly


Sorry Amy I forgot. You may not be able to use my comments to the Houston Chronicle since they now own the copy writes. Michael R.

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