| Dear friends,
please pass this information on to
your friends, we the american
people need to be more involved in
getting congress to pass a
comprehensive energy legislation
plan now. if we leave it up to our
elected officials, we may never see
our country free of our dependence
on oil or the middle east. i blame
myself, along with the american
people for taking our economic and
energy situation we now face in the
united states for granted. i hope
it's not to late, our country
is facing one of the most important
issues in our nations history. let
all americans sound off with one
voice, "that we want take it
any more!" we want american
energy independence legislation
now!
american energy independence day
2008 - america get involved!
http://www.gop.gov/recesskits/indep
endenceday2008.pdf
respectfully yours,
james everitt
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dear representative last name
here,
the united states spends more money
protecting middle east oil and
fighting terrorism than it would
cost to develop new energy
technology that would obsolete oil
as a source of energy. the
connection between terrorism and
middle east oil wealth can no
longer be ignored.
it is time for america to lead the
development of new energy
technology that would end the need
for oil as a source of energy.
freeing america, and all other
industrial countries, from the need
to use fossil oil as a source of
energy will cut-off the flow of oil
money to the middle east and put an
end to the financial support of
militant islam.
with the help of new technology,
america’s energy needs can be
obtained from sources other than
fossil oil.
american technology has put a man
on the moon, mapped the human
genome, and successfully landed
robotic exploration vehicles on
mars. it seems reasonable to
believe that american scientists
and engineers could also develop
environmentally safe alternative
energy technology to free america
from dependence on fossil oil.
the united states has over 270
billion tons of proven coal
reserves, having the energy
equivalent of four times the oil
reserves of saudi arabia and equal
to all of the proven oil reserves
in the world. if the united states
could use its coal reserves without
destroying the environment, foreign
oil would not be needed.
nuclear energy can produce the
hydrogen and provide the intense
heat needed to make synthetic oil
from coal.
nuclear power is a proven
emission-free energy source that
can replace gas and coal fired
base-load electric power generation
plants, and enable the usa to
develop a replacement for our oil
based transportation fuel. the
replacement of coal power plants
with nuclear power plants would
reduce america’s atmospheric co2
emissions by 30%.
the usa does not need to wait for a
hydrogen economy; nuclear power can
begin to give america energy
independence now, by providing the
process heat and hydrogen needed
for the manufacture of synthetic
oil from coal. if nuclear heat and
nuclear hydrogen are used in the
manufacture of synthetic oil from
coal, then the yield of oil from
coal would be much higher than if
coal was used to provide the needed
hydrogen and process heat.
using synthetic gasoline and diesel
made from coal, to provide
transportation fuel, would not
reduce co2 produced by cars and
trucks on the nation's
highways, nor would it increase
atmospheric co2 because it would
merely replace existing consumption
of gasoline and diesel. however, it
is possible to have zero emission
gasoline/diesel cars and trucks. if
technology is used to remove the
co2 tailpipe emissions directly
from the atmosphere after the co2
is released from the tailpipe. in
other words, allow cars and trucks
to release co2 and then clean the
atmosphere using technology
designed to remove co2 from the
air. the collected co2 can either
be recycled or sequestered.
if coal power plants were replaced
by nuclear power plants, for
base-load electricity, and coal is
used to make synthetic gasoline and
diesel, then americans who are
dependent on the coal mining
industry for their incomes would
support nuclear energy.
modern coal-to-oil technology can
free america from dependence on
middle east oil. one billion tons
of coal per year, at 3 barrels of
oil per ton, would replace 65% of
usa imported oil, and provide jobs
for people who depend on the coal
industry. at 12 million imported
barrels per day, 65% is 7,800,000
barrels per day. just over 20% of
oil imported into the usa today
comes from persian gulf nations,
which are also members of opec.
less than 45% of oil imported into
the usa today comes from opec.
drilling for new petroleum might
help in the short term, but in the
long term natural petroleum is not
sustainable — we cannot depend
upon crude oil for our energy
future. however, the development of
technology for the production of
synthetic petroleum will create a
sustainable energy future.
synthetic hydrocarbon fuels such as
synthetic diesel and synthetic
gasoline can be made from many
different sources of raw material,
including renewable biomass.
america has an abundance of natural
raw materials that can be used to
make synthetic petroleum.
a large-scale public investment in
gas-to-liquids (gtl) technology
would bring the cost of the
technology down so that the
manufacture of synthetic petroleum
would be competitive with fossil
oil production. the current
interest in gas-to-liquids
technology is focused on monetizing
otherwise worthless remote natural
gas deposits. however, variations
on the same technology can be used
to make synthetic petroleum from
synthesis gas derived from coal,
oil sands, oil shale, biomass, or
even recycled co2 in combination
with hydrogen extracted from water.
synthetic gasoline and synthetic
diesel made from synthetic
petroleum can power existing cars
and trucks without needing to
modify the engines or national fuel
distribution infrastructure.
details and links to more
information about new energy
technologies can be found on the
american energy independence web
site.
www.americanenergyindependence.com
congress needs to fund advanced
research and development of new
energy technology. the united
states needs to move forward with
the development of sustainable
sources of energy, and do so with
the urgency of a national security
mandate.
respectfully,
your name
your mailing address
your email address
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