[Sustain] [TrueGreen_NoNukes] Re: Obama on energy

[Don Eichelberger]

Here is my response to Obama on his web site inviting responses.  This 
is a personal response, and not party affiliated.  In ooking at it 
afterward, it seems almost like a prayer:

I applaud your efforts so far to set up mechanisms for tapping group 
creativity and giving personal responses via the Internet.  Hope you're 
keeping up.

I am very happy to see the President-elect calling for massive spending 
aimed at creating the jobs that will be needed to build the future. 

Make this a jobs program to build the next bubble in sustainable 
alternatives to the way things are.  Building that future will 
simultaneously address climate change and economic instability.

I am a long time Green Party activist, a founding member of the 
California Green party and until recently a co-coordinator of its Green 
Issues Working Group.

In that regard, I hope President-elect Obama will be as conciliatory and 
willing to reach across differences to his left as he is to his right. 

I have to I say see little evidence of that in his new cabinet or 
economic team.  I admit that Clinton veterans are pretty much the only 
Democrats who possess beltway experience.

But people like Ed Markey,  Cynthia McKinney and even Ralph Nader, 
though from farther to the left also have beltway experience, and should 
be tapped for at least some admininsration position or advisory roles in 
environmental, energy and consumer affairs.

I also strongly oppose carbon Cap and Trade.  I do not trust free 
marketeers to handle them responsibly.  I would suggest a  two cent per 
pound carbon excise tax on all carbon emissions, from whatever source, 
to go in to renewable energy and public transit funds. It could raise 
fourty cents from each gallon of gasoline sold, alone while encouraging 
conservation.

I could go on, but I am wary you can keep up and don't want to add to 
your struggles. 

I look forward to hearing from you.

Thank you for listening. 

Abalone Alliance wrote:

> This link is to Obama's official website 
> <http://www.change.gov/page/s/energyenviro> to make suggestions and 
> comments on for energy!
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> Go there and suggest Ed Markey for being the next Secretary for the 
> Department of Energy!
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> Susan Swift wrote:
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>> In response:
>>
>> Yes, we know that Obama is at best neutral on nuclear. He lives in a
>> state that is pretty dependent on nuclear power and he has chosen as
>> one of his chief energy advisors Daniel Kammen (UC Berkeley)- who
>> advocates the use of nuclear power as an "appropriate technology."
>>
>> Nonetheless, until recently, Joe Biden has been outspokenly opposed to
>> nuclear power. We can hope that he will continue to be on our side,
>> and will speak to the issue when he takes his seat as vice president.
>>
>> And, we should remember that no one president or any other leader will
>> perfectly reflect our values. Now is not the time to relinquish power
>> to someone we 'kind of trust,' but it is the moment to become ever
>> more active while the doors to power are slightly ajar...
>> Susan
>>
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