[az-leader] 'hooters and polluters' National Energy Bill--vote later in January in Senate.
- From: "Roland W James" <roland.james@xxxxxxx>
- To: <"Undisclosed-Recipient:;"@freelists.org>
- Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2004 17:19:38 -0800
{Please forward this to friends and relatives, esp. in states of SD, ND,Mn,
Mt, Iowa, Nebraska, and Arkansas. This started as a project of Ca Sonoma Co
Alliance for Democracy Energy Committee}
A. a letter to ten "farm bloc" Democratic Senators or reworded as letter to
editor--best if it comes from resident of state in own words, but if you have a
"hook" to a state, use it.
B. addresses of 10 Senators and newspapers in SD, ND, Mn, Mt, Iowa, Neb., and
Arkansas
C. recent legislative history of National Energy Bill
A.
January 2004
Senator Kent Conrad//Senator Byron Dorgan
Dear Senator _________:
While I laud you for wanting to help the farmers of North Dakota, I'd like you
to consider the following before you vote on the National Energy Bill:
1. Many more benefits to farmers and ranchers would come from provisions for
wind energy than from ethanol. As Richard Heinberg points out in "The Party's
Over: Oil, War, and The Fate of Industrial Societies," ethanol has a very low
energy profit ratio and often there is more energy "in" than "out."
2. Last fall, a Lesley Stahl segment on Sixty Minutes showed that the $18
billion in subsidies for a natural gas pipeline through Alaska is a superfluous
waste, whereas hooking onto a Canadian pipeline wouldn't cost the taxpayers
anything.
3. There are billions of dollars in coal and oil subsidies in the bill, which
do nothing about a major problem with oil and coal, CO2, which leads to global
warming, including a rising snow line and the "permanent disappearance of Rocky
Mountain meadows." (2002 EPA report, later squelched by the Bush
administration)
4. Less than 10% of the $26 billion in energy bill tax credits are for energy
efficiency, conservation, solar energy, and wind energy.
5. The proposed bill adds billions of dollars to an already humungous national
debt without doing much at all for ordinary people and our energy future.
Roland James
(718 Adobe Santa Rosa, Ca 95404 707.539-0547
Moorhead (Mn) High School '63; USAF '65-'68; Concordia (Mn) '69;
Alexander, N.D. native where my father homesteaded 99 years ago.)
B. To send by snailmail---Senator __________, U.S. Senate, Washington, D.C.
20510
There are 13 Democratic Senators that sided with Republican leadership on
stopping the filibuster in Nov.
1. South Dakota
Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle
tom_daschle@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 202.224-7895 fax
Tim Johnson www.senate.gov and click on South Dakota 228-5765
fax
SD Newspapers
--Sioux Falls Argus Leader 200 words editor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
P.O. Box 5034, SF, SD 57117-5034 605.331-2294 fax
--Rapid City Journal letters@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Box 450 RC, SD 57709 394-8463 fax
--Pierre Capitol Journal thru www.capjournal.com
Box 878 57501
-- www.yankton.net
-- www.madisondailyleader.com
2. North Dakota
Byron Dorgan senator@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 202.224-1193 fax
Kent Conrad senator@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Newspapers
letters@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Williston Herald
tdennis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Grand Forks Herald (also serves northern
Minnesota)
mdnews@xxxxxxxxx Minot Daily News
letters@xxxxxxxxxxxx Bismarck Tribune
letters@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Fargo Forum (also serves northern Minnesota)
3. Minnesota
Senator Mark Dayton www.dayton.senate.gov/webform.html
Newspapers
Minneapolis Star Tribune opinion@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (this
paper-- Mn, Ia, ND, SD, Wi)
St Paul Pioneer Press letters@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Mankato Free Press editor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
4. Iowa
Senator Tom Harkin www.senate.gov and click on Iowa
Des Moines Register letters@xxxxxxxxx Box 957 ......50304
5. Nebraska
Senator Ben Nelson www.senate.gov and click on Nebraska
Omaha World-Herald pulse@xxxxxxx
Lincoln Journal Star oped@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
6. Montana
Senator Max Baucus www.senate.gov and click on Montana
speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
oped@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
7. Arkansas
Senator Blanche Lincoln and Senator David Pryor
www.senate.gov
Arkansas Democrat Gazette
letters "only from Ark residents" thru
www.ardemgaz.com/info/voices.asp
The last three are Zell Miller from Ga and John Breaux and Mary Landrieu from
La.
C. From the 11/22/03 SF Chronicle, p. A1 "...The bill covered a vast range of
energy issues, including measures to improve the reliability of the nation's
electricity grid, $18 billion in loan guarantees to build a
natural gas pipeline from Alaska to the lower 48 states and billions of
dollars more in tax credits and subsidies for the oil and gas, coal and nuclear
power industries.......The measure, crafted in mostly closed-door meetings of
GOP leaders in conference committee, was approved easily by the house on
Tuesday (11/18) by a 246-180 vote. .......[in the Senate] Supporters of the
bill failed to override the filibuster Friday (11/21) on a 57-40 vote.Thirteen
Democrats voted with the GOP leadership to end debate, most from
energy-producing Southern states and Midwest states that would benefit from the
ethanol provision: Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle and Tim Johnson of South
Dakota; Max Baucus of Montana; John Breaux and Mary Landrieu of Louisiana;
Byron Dorgan and Kent Conrad of North Dakota; Mark Dayton of Minnesota; Tom
Harkin of Iowa; Mark Pryor and Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas; Zell Miller of
Georgia; and Ben Nelson of Nebraska. But six Republicans, most from the
Northeast, bucked the White House and voted to sustain the filibuster: Lincoln
Chafee of Rhode Island; Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins of Maine, John Sunnunu
and Judd Gregg of New Hampshire, and John McCain of Arizona...who called it the
'hooters and polluters' bill."
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