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” I HAVE STOOD ON THE SIDELINES LONG ENOUGH “

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Because this wretched OBama Care Bill has passed it is now time for YOU to start thinking about your OPTIONS

First, you have to ask yourself what and how will it effect me personally? Secondly, how will it impact this already fragile economy? Finally, will my standard of living, health, etc. be the same, worse, or equal to a third world economy.

I am going to show you how you can answer those questions and improve your health and standard of living. Your main focus should be on doing something now rather than later.

From what I can gather, the impact on every citizen, every corporation, and every Healtcare worker will be a negative.

From a citizens’ perspective you will be impacted in (3) three ways. 

FINANCIALLY  – Because corporations cannot afford the Obama care they will start laying off employees to meet their obligations to the new law. { Case in point, Catapillar Tractor located in Ohio has said that they will lose $ 100 MILLION DOLLARS under the new law. } They will have no choice to start layoffs if they want to survive.  As layoffs continue every man and woman working will be subject to unemployment.  I would expect to see 15 to 20 % unemployment nationally.  The idiots that passed this bill said it will increase employment, this is a half-truth.  They plan on hiring 17,000 new IRS workers to POLICE this action.  The jobs created will be in the government and not in the private sector.  The next item under FINANCIAL is the increase in Health Care Premiums, this will put and additional burden on the average family.  Finally, they will lower the income level to around $ 75,000 not $ 250,000 so they can hit you with an increase of around 3% for lower incomes to as much as 9% for larger incomes to pay for this monster.

HEALTH CARE – The average family who now has coverage will face longer waits in the doctors’ office.  { I talked with my own personal doctor who has 3 partners in a local clinic.  Each one of the doctors has a staff of 10 people, nurses, receptions, billing,physician assistiants, etc.  My doctor told me that if the bill passed that he and his partners will have to layoff 25% of their total staff.  That is 10 people.  I asked him if the quailty of care would go down and he told me no.  However,  this was a little bit unnerving, he said the waiting time from 1 or 2 days could go out to 2 weeks just to get an appointment.  I then asked him what would his patients do if they could not get an appointment in a short period of time?  He said that the ER’s will be jampacked at the Hospitals.  He also said that the older doctors late 50’s early 60’s  will seriously look at closing their doors and retiring. I asked him what percentage would he expect, he stated that between 5 and 10% nationally would retire.  Great, the most experienced doctors will be retiring which will cause a shortage of healthcare professionals.}

LOCAL and STATE SERVICES – This is big because it involves the security of your family.  The states cannot afford this bill and will have to reduce or cut altogether services to their citizens.  Look for POLICE, FIRE, PUBLIC WORKS, EMERGENCY OPERATIONS, SNOW REMOVAL in the Northen States, ROAD REPAIR, etc.  to start reducing staffs. It is coming

HOW DO YOU PROTECT YOURSELF

If you are worried about being laid off then start cutting your expenses now.  Quit smoking, if you drink beer regularly reduce you intake, use you credit cards sparingly, see how you can lower your cell phone charges ( change services or change plans) there are lots of cost cutting methods and they all add up.  The wealthiest woman I know in my community shops at the dollar stores for can goods, detergents, paper products, and snacks.  You might try it, it is a lot cheaper than the regular grocery stores.  One thing do not SCRIMP on fresh vegetables and fresh fruits.  Start stocking up now.  If you don’t use it then you can donate it to your neighbors in need.

Have you considered an home business or on line business.  I am going to reccomend  3 that work.

1.)   http://25minutestofinancialfreedom.com  total cost is $ 20.00  I have talked to two people who are involved with this.  One has been at it for 3 months and he is averaging around $ 186.00 per day, that is around $ 5500.00 per month.  The other man has been involved for about a month and he said he is averaging about  $ 63.00/day that is almost $ 1900.00 per month not bad.

2.)  This is a great product – it is a fuel additive that saves gas and actually works, I use it in my vehicles and I get around 25% increase in mileage.  It is EPA Certified, CARB Approved, lowers emissions, improves HP, lowers maintenance costs, saves about $15.00 per tank of gas which is $ 700.00 per year.  It comes in quarts, gallons,drums, and tankers.  A quart will cost the consumer about $ 20.00 which will last for about 2 months.  It can be used in diesel, gasoline, 4 cycle, and 2 cycle engines.  The site is  http://smithrosscompany.com  that is to purchase the product, be sure and read the testimonials.  They also offer a free affiliate program, no stocking, no shipping, no invoicing.  You get paid on commission once per month.  This product can be used by everyone ( fleets, cities, police, fire, taxis, construction equipment, motorcycles, boat motors, quadrunners, snowblowers, skidoos, etc. )  the affiliate site is  http://greenpowergas.com/cgi-bin/signup.cgi 

The third product I am going to reccomend is  the One Minute Cure.  The site is  http://www.1shoppingcart.com/SYS/?m=142741&c=1  This is a great product for your familys health.  I personally use it and the total cost to keep a family of 4 healthy for 1 year is around $  8.00 per year.  Once you use this no disease, no virus, no harmful bacteria can survive in your body.  $ 8.00 per year is amazing.

Well that is enough for now.  As I come across money saving tips or businesses I will put them in the blog.

Thanks for reading

greenpowerguy

Posted by GreenPowerGuy on March 23rd, 2010

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The Burden Of Green Taxes 2

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If any UK government department mentions the words:- green, environment, carbon gas emissions, etc, etc, you can be sure before the end of the sentence arrives you’ll also find the word- TAX.

As recently as last month the UK government announced plans to increase taxes for motorists so drastically as to put the future of driving cars in jeopardy for most people, these taxes are to be raised as a method of contribution to a Green Tax Levy amounting to £150bn over the next 10 years.

One factor that never seems to be considered by the people who think up these measures is how will their decisions affect people who live out in the country. Practically everyone who lives in the country are on lesser incomes than their city dwelling counterparts and cannot rely on a good public transport system, how then are they going to conduct their lives with no travel.

A survey reveals very clearly that transport lags behind both industry and buildings in global energy usage yet is always seen as the cash cow when tax revenues are required to be topped up.

How long will it be before our Chancellor of the Exchequer makes a statement, as he did on the recent increase in Flight Taxes, that these motoring tax increases are just a revenue raising exercise and nothing to do with environment issues.

Of far greater importance to the well being of our planet is the absolutely enormous damage being carried out in the Amazon Rainforest, and not to be forgotten, other regions including Indonesia, where logging will have cleared all rainforests in 10 years and in Papua New Guinea in 13-16 years.

All this deforestation, a great amount of which is illegal, is to provide land for agriculture and crops, some of these crops are for the production of bio-fuels for our cars. Can anyone see the sense in that, clearing rainforests which absorb carbon gas emissions to plant crops for the production of further fuels, ok perhaps slightly less polluting fuels.

What we have not heard a lot of information about is where these crops and products end up; answer- BRITISH SUPERMARKETS.

There is a clear case to answer here, if British supermarkets are buying  cheap products (which these products would have to be for the supermarkets to be interested in) then they are not only profiting from illegal activity and having supported indirectly the logging and deforestation but they should be making a corresponding contribution to green taxation.

Bill Williams

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Bill is now retired but has always enjoyed travelling, which included driving on all continents of the world. He also has a very keen interest in all environment issues. He started his first website last year and is about to launch a more comprehensive motoring site www.thecarhub.net

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Posted by GreenPowerGuy on November 3rd, 2009

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Nevada Fails To Promote Solar Energy

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As the nation’s capital creates legislation that is likely to transform the landscape of America from a fossil-fuel nation toward a renewable energy nation, states like Nevada – with its abundant sunshine, wide open spaces and concentrated population located in two major cities – stand to gain.

Nevada has already heeded the call of renewables. Plans for two coal-fired generating plants in White Pine County – by LS Power and Nevada Energy – have been canceled. Another coal-fired plant near Mesquite hit the skids earlier in the year.

Cap-and-trade, which threatens to make global warming emissions incrementally more expensive over time, is one of the bigger incentives to move away from coal, oil and natural gas. But another, a $3.2-billion provision hidden away in the economic stimulus bill passed in February, gives power companies in the West access to low-cost loans via the Western Power Authority that will help extend the nation’s transmission system to incorporate renewable energies like solar.

It’s a first step toward a smarter grid, and an essential step if renewable alternatives like solar and wind farms, commonly built well outside inhabited areas, are to reach the thousands in cities who need more energy, and would prefer it clean and green.

At least, this is the conclusion reached by a new Roper survey, which shows that almost 90 percent of Americans think new home construction should offer a solar option. This is up from 79 percent a year ago, according to the study commissioned by Sharp Electronics Corp.

The $3.2 provision, introduced by Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nv.), the current Senate Majority head, solves a long-standing Catch 22: investors are reluctant to finance renewable projects unless the transmission lines exist to transport it. But investors are also reluctant to invest in transmission lines until said renewable projects are up and running.

Up to now, the solution to this dilemma has been to build more fossil-fuel plants close to existing plants and tie the plant in to existing transmission. Coal-fired plants are cheap to build, domestic coal is believed to be plentiful, and is also inexpensive, allowing builders to recoup their construction costs quite rapidly.

But let’s go back to that plentiful coal. According to a report released by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) late in 2008, coal reserves in the Gillette, Wyoming field are – thanks to reevaluation and a redefining of the term “accessible” – a scarce 6 percent of previous estimates.

Another report from 2007, which dismisses previous methods of evaluating coal reserves, suggests that actual coal reserves across the country might be much smaller than previously supposed. In effect, say some experts, the U.S. only has enough coal to last about 20 years.

In light of this, it suddenly makes sense to build a $500-million line between Las Vegas and Ely to carry solar power. And both LS Power and NV Energy, having scrapped coal plans, are going ahead with transmission planning, because Nevada – with its 2005 mandate on utilities to provide 9 percent from renewables – is finally catching up, even if four years late.

Nevada’s Senate Bill 358, which will allow NV Energy to recover conservation losses through higher rates, is another incentive to go green, even though regional enviros regard it as a utility bailout.

The 2005 law mandates utilities like NV Energy and Nevada Power to produce 20 percent of power via renewables by 2015, and 25 percent by 2025. With the new power line a go, solar energy firms like First Solar should begin flocking to Nevada’s wide open spaces and 360 days of sunshine a year any time now.

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Posted by GreenPowerGuy on October 9th, 2009

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Climate Change and the Developing World

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Climate Change Bill

Last year, 27th November 2008, saw the passing of the Climate Change Bill in the UK which aimed to see significant cuts in the UK CO2 emissions in order to tackle climate change. There were three main points in this bill. Firstly to reduce emissions by 80% by 2050, this is the level that scientists believe is required if we are to see a turn in the tide of the current climate change. Secondly the bill included changes that mean that international aviation and shipping – that fastest growing source of emissions – emissions are now included in the targets. Finally, the bill also laid out that there be annual budgets for spending on carbon in order that the emission cuts could be more measurable and kept on top of.

Climate effects on the poor

Climate change is something that is talked about mostly in the context of the developed world. This is because most of the contribution and consequently, the ability to reduce, climate change is from the western world. However, the other side to the story is that it is the developing world that, despite contributing very little, is bearing the brunt of climate change.

The main reasons for this unbalanced impact are because people living in poorer areas of the world are more likely to live in fragile housing, to rely on agriculture for a lot of their income and have no back up of insurance or savings in the event of disaster. All of these factors make them very susceptible to changes in climate.

Every year, 150,000 people die from health-related effects of climate change. For example, crops can be ruined by drought or flooding from heavy rain or rising sea levels and this can mean significant food shortages which means loss of livelihood and malnutrition. This often leads to people being forced to leave their homes in order to find food and shelter elsewhere; by 2050 there will be an estimated 150 million refugees due to this.

A further significant effect is that the spreading of floodwater and changing weather mean that malaria carrying mosquitoes are spreading to highland areas that were previously unpopulated by them. Malaria is one of the biggest causes of death in the developing world especially in children, with much of the control of disease being focused on elimination of the vector mosquitoes. This spread caused by climate change is undoing much of this.

Gordon Brown, Prime Minister in the UK, said in June, that $100 billion needed to be contributed to poorer nations by developed countries in order to help them cope with climate change. As of yet, it is unclear exactly where this money will come from.

Copenhagen, December 2009

UN climate talks are scheduled to take place in Copenhagen this December as part of the process of ensuring that countries are all involved in sticking to aims of keeping the rise in temperature to 2 degrees above their pre-industrial levels. Current worries leading up to these talks are that mistrust between rich and poor countries, and the distraction of the recession might prevent any effective discussions. Countries including China and India are arguing that their emissions per capita are much lower and so they are reluctant to move to reduce their emissions.

Ed Miliband, the Energy and Climate Change Secretary, has said that it is important that the developing countries also partake in the reduction of emissions because although their contribution is currently significantly less, 90% of the growth in emissions is coming from them. This means it is more important that they show that they will slow the growth of the emissions rather than actually reduce them at this stage.

The World Bank

Unfortunately, a controversial contribution of the World Bank to developing countries has just been uncovered. The World Bank, who is funded by developed countries including the UK, has a goal of reducing poverty and is spending billions of pounds helping developing countries to build new coal-fired power stations. The World Bank has made several statements regarding it’s stance in trying to reduce emissions and protecting the developing world who are worst effected by climate change. Critics say that by giving this money to build new power stations they are not acting in the long term interests of the poor and that this money should instead be given to supporting renewable energy.

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Posted by GreenPowerGuy on September 25th, 2009

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Anti-Solar Favor in Oregon

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In news out of Oregon, it appears that the state’s biggest solar energy project, now about 25 percent on its way to completion, will be negatively impacted by House Bill 2472, which proposes reducing or restricting the state’s Business Energy Tax Credit (BETC), offered by the Oregon Department of Energy.

As initially drafted, the BETC provides 50 percent of eligible project costs for high-efficiency combined heat and power generation, renewable energy resource generation, and renewable energy resource equipment manufacturing facilities, credited over five years at 10 percent per year.

The BETC also provides a pass-through option which allows a project owner to transfer 35 percent of the credit to a partner for a lump-sum cash payment. Project owners may be public entities, non-profits, or businesses facing a tax liability, for example.

Now, HB 2472 proposes to cap the total amount of money the state can issue under the BETC in a given year, and Daniel Eisenbeis of the League of Oregon Cities is not happy. Nor is Northwest Renewable Project’s spokesperson Suzanne Leta Liou, who sees the bill as leading to fewer renewable energy projects in the state, and about 1,700 fewer jobs.

Another unintended consequence of 2472 will be to increase greenhouse gas emissions, or GHGs, since the BETC as originally operated actually reduced GHG emissions during 2007 and 2008 to half the emissions normally produced at the state’s Boardman coal-fired power plant.

The Boardman plant, located in Morrow County near Kennewick, a few miles south of the Washington State border, is the state’s only major coal plant and also the largest stationary source of GHGs. Operated by Portland General Electric (PGE), it has been a thorn in the side of environmentalists for the last three decades. Opened in 1977, it continues to evade emission’s restrictions, and now PGE wants ratepayers to spend $500 million to “fix” a plant that will likely be shut down, in the face of global warming, in a matter of years.

What, then, is the Oregon legislature thinking by introducing HB 2472? Some say the bill is being driven by the state’s financial woes. Oregon is the nation’s largest producer of lumber used in the building trades, and with the crash of the housing bubble in 2008, the building industry has been in freefall.

But 2472 isn’t the only environmental measure losing ground in Oregon. Senate Bill 80, cap-and-trade, and HB 2940 (weakening the 2007 renewable energy standard) are both “anti-green” measures, and both are favored handily to win in the current economic climate.

As of June 15, HB 2472 was still in committee, but, if it passes, the one million-kilowatt Multnomah County solar project will likely also go down in flames, as backers pull out for lack of BETC incentives.

One million kilowatts down the drain, yet the Boardman plant continues operating. It’s enough to make an enviro cry, and that’s just what Leslie Carlson over at BlueOregon is doing.

As Carlson notes, with billions going to subsidize Big Oil over the past three decades, it seems a shame we can’t “Spend a little money through BETC to promote energy that doesn’t require soldiers or catastrophic climate change.”

Amen, Leslie. Budget cuts may be blowback from the current recession, but cutting clean, completely renewable solar energy hardly seems the place to start.

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Posted by GreenPowerGuy on September 16th, 2009

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Going Green Tips… Save Money and Our Future

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Save Now for a Greener Tomorrow

We are taught from an early age to Save for A Rainy Day, Save For Retirement, Save In Case Of An Emergency… well you get the picture. All these examples are referring to saving money, a smart prudent thing to do. For most of us in recent times, unfortunately, our savings account has become our living account. Now they are asking us to Save The Planet. Did you know that doing your part cannot only help save the earth, but also save you money in the process? You can feel good about yourself and put cash in your pocket, or back into that savings account where it belongs. There are things you can do starting today, which will only cost you the effort to implement them.

Four  Tips That Will Save Money

As with most changes, sacrifice can be a part of efficiency. Here are four essential steps you can start taking today to live green, save money, and it won’t cost you a dime.

1. Turn your heater thermostats down one or two degrees in winter, and turn your air-conditioning thermostats up one or two degrees in summer. If we all did this, the combined difference would be phenomenal. You will notice a significant savings in your electric bill.

2. Start washing your clothes in cold water. Modern powders perform just as efficiently in cold water as hot. Most of the energy that goes into washing clothes is in heating up the water. So you will save on electricity, live green and save money too.

3. On sunny days think about hanging your clothes on an old fashion clothing line. You will not only save money, but your clothes will smell fresher.  

4. Try to consume a little less of everything, from electricity, to gas in the car, to the food you eat. Take time to write out a shopping list, and stick to it. If you feel the impulse to buy something you don’t really need, get into the habit of waiting 24 hours, then review it. The chances are you either won’t want it any more, or will have forgotten all about it.

Small Investments Will Payback Ten Fold

Ways to Cut Your Energy Bill
1.If you don’t already, look for leaks, this is a good place to start.  I don’t mean just water, but also energy leaks. Yes, there are such things as energy leaks. If your house isn’t properly insulated, you are losing more money than perhaps you realize. You should not only make sure your loft is insulated, but any hot water pipes as well. This is a very small price to pay, but you will recoup this investment very quickly.

2. Consider getting a new toilet cistern that will use less than two gallons of water per flush. Standard cisterns use about three and a half gallons. Because of plastics, this is no longer a big expense.

3. Compact fluorescent light bulbs are a dream come true for anyone who wants to live green and save money. They burn just 25% of the electricity that a standard light bulb burns, and they can last up to 10 times longer. Change your old bulbs today, or if you must be frugal, as the current ones burn out. The two drawbacks that critics used to discredit the fluorescent, that being the expense and the difference in lighting  that the bulbs give off,  have greatly diminished. The hue the fluorescent gives off, while still not the same has recently improved. I have seen these bulbs in the local dollar stores, so everyone can now take advantage of them.

Going Off the Grid

Renewable Energy Is Very Affordable
For those of you who have energy bills that are astronomical, you might consider solar or wind as a very cost effective solution. Whether or not you decide to go off grid or stay on and sell extra energy as some do, solar and wind as alternatives are more affordable than you think. Whereas contractors charge thousands to install, you can do-it-yourself for hundreds. Real people, not corporations, have come up with efficient and extremely affordable programs that walk you through step by step instructions, on how to build and install renewable energy for your home.

My own extensive research has helped me narrow down the best of the best instructional guides, complete with blueprints, photos, and even in the case of my number one choice, video instruction.  
Besides renewable energy guides, I have found information on green car conversions, how to grow an organic garden, and also some opportunities to make money in the green movement.  Obviously, I can’t go into great detail in this article, but if I have piqued your interest, you can get all the facts on these and many other ideas on how to go green at my site   Possibly GREEN. There you’ll find the right ways to live a greener life, including information on how to find green jobs in your area.

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Posted by GreenPowerGuy on September 14th, 2009

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