[Sustain] PG&E Funded 'Vote Solar' Backs Corrupt Wall Street Bailout For Solar Crumbs
Eric Brooks
brookse at igc.org
Wed Oct 1 12:51:55 PDT 2008
Hi all,
See below the verbatim alert from 'Vote Solar' (which gets funding from
fossil fuel energy corporations like PG&E, Chevron, BP, and Edison); an
alert that ridiculously says we should tell our congressmembers that
they should approve the Wall Street bank bail-out and sell out the
American people and economy to massive corrupt mega-banks and insurance
companies, just because the sell-out/bail-out now contains an amendment
that extends solar credits. Perhaps 'Vote Solar' would care to address
the reality that hundreds of thousands of homeowners under mortgage
stress and out of work because the bail-out bill doesn't help them, will
not be able to buy solar panels at any price...
Here's 'Vote Solar's' absurd alert:
Vote Solar wrote:
Friends,
Congress is set to vote on the future of solar in America in the next 36
hours.
The Senate has included the critical clean energy tax
incentives--including an 8 year extension of the 30% investment tax
credit, with removal of residential caps--in the bailout package (aka
the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008). This adds a
significant job development enhancement to the package--according to
this study
<http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=%2Fa577dIbE2iNftMZLLtSVGbTQF2JKxCP>
by Navigant, 1.2 million of them. Now the bailout is not just
greenbacks for Wallstreet, but also green jobs for Mainstreet, if you
will. The bill will likely pass the Senate tonight, but prospects in the
House are much more uncertain.
If you want to see the tax credits go through, call your representative
in the House to urge their support for the Senate-passed Stabilization Bill.
*/-Call Instructions-/*
1) Call the Capitol Hill Switchboard (202-224-3121) and ask for your
House Member's office number.
2) When you call the office, state your name and location and ask to be
transferred to the Chief of Staff. If she/he isn't available, ask to
leave a message for her/him.
3) Sample message: "My name is _____ and I am calling from (location) to
urge Representative XX to vote "YES" on the Economic Stabilization bill
coming over from the Senate. The clean energy tax incentives extender
package was added to the bill, and if signed into law, 1.2 million
employment opportunities, including 440,000 permanent jobs, and $232
billion in new investment would be generated in the U.S. by the solar
energy sector alone through 2016. Thank you in advance for building the
clean energy economy of tomorrow by voting YES on the Economic
Stabilization Bill coming over from the Senate."
Onwards,
Annie and the Vote Solar Team
The Vote Solar Initiative
300 Brannan Street, Suite 609
San Francisco, CA 94107
www.votesolar.org
to subscribe:
http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/organizationsORG/votesolar/signUp.jsp?key=987
to unsubscribe:
http://www.demaction.org/dia/organizations/votesolar/unsubscribe.jsp
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