[Sustain] PG&E Funded 'Vote Solar' Backs Corrupt Wall Street Bailout For Solar Crumbs

[Eric Brooks]

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


-- 
"I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves." -- Che Guevara

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