How You Can Make Al Gore's Proposal A Reality

Our call to action asks all Americans to contact President-Elect Barack Obama to request him to champion Al Gore's Challenge to America to re-power America’s electrical grid so that within 10 years the grid is carbon free in order to (1) bring our economy back to life by creating American jobs, (2) achieve energy independence for our foreign policy, (3) eliminate our balance of payments deficit (borrowing $700 billion/year from the Chinese to buy oil from other foreign countries, many of whom hate us), and (4) constitute a major step in halting global warming.

Please see the details in this section regarding how you can participate!!!
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How You Can Make Al Gore's Proposal A Reality

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Editorial Note -- this was our weekly e-mail sent on November 15th to our 140 members.
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From: ReadingLiberallyEmailList@johnkarls.com
To: ReadingLiberallyEmailList@johnkarls.com
Subject: CALL TO ACTION - Al Gore's 10-Year Challenge to America
Attachments: AlGore-NYTimesOpEdArticle-9Nov2008

Dear Friends,

Our next meeting is WEDNESday Dec 10th - 6:30 pm > closing (formal discussion 7:00 pm > 8:30 pm) - Salt Lake Public Library (210 East 400 South) - Conf. Rm. C (special elevator just inside EAST entrance). The topic is “It’s The Economy, Stupid” which was a constant reminder pasted by Bill Clinton to his shaving mirror for his entire 8 years in office. Additional background information (including suggested reading) is posted on our bulletin board = http://www.ReadingLiberally-SaltLake.org.

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CALL TO ACTION – AL GORE’S 10-YEAR CHALLENGE TO AMERICA

We take pride in the fact that there are NO MORE THAN SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION between us and 100% of the American electorate.

And that, on important occasions, we can send to all of our friends and acquaintances an already-prepared e-mail (1) for them to send to America’s decision maker(s) to influence governmental policy, and (2) for our friends and acquaintances to send to all of their friends and acquaintances to do the same in an unending chain.

At our meeting this past Wednesday, we decided unanimously that this was one of those occasions. That all of us should (1) contact President-Elect Barack Obama, and (2) contact all of our friends and acquaintances requesting them to do so in an unending chain – to urge President-Elect Obama to implement Al Gore’s Challenge to America to re-power America’s electrical grid so that within 10 years it is carbon free in order to (A) bring our economy back to life by creating American jobs, (B) achieve energy independence for our foreign policy, (C) eliminate our balance of payments deficit (borrowing $700 billion/year from the Chinese to buy oil from other foreign countries, many of whom hate us), and (D) constitute a major step in halting global warming.

Below is an already-prepared e-mail that you can use for this purpose.

All you have to do is –

(1) hit your e-mail forward button and erase from this e-mail which will now be forwarded, everything down through the line of asterisks following the second PS below, and then put the e-mail addresses of all your friends and acquaintances into the address section.

(2) send to President-Elect Barack Obama a copy of the already-prepared message following the instructions contained in the e-mail message you are forwarding to all your friends and acquaintances.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR PARTICIPATION.

Your friend,

John K.

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Note – In forwarding this e-mail to all of your friends and acquaintances you should, after pressing your e-mail forward button, erase from this e-mail now being forwarded everything through the following line(s) of asterisks.

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Dear Friends,

Al Gore wrote an OpEd article in the NY Times on November 9th containing a Challenge to America to re-power America’s electrical grid so that within 10 years the grid is carbon free in order to (1) bring our economy back to life by creating American jobs, (2) achieve energy independence for our foreign policy, (3) eliminate our balance of payments deficit (borrowing $700 billion/year from the Chinese to buy oil from other foreign countries, many of whom hate us), and (4) constitute a major step in halting global warming.

A copy of Al Gore’s OpEd article is attached.

I have received an e-mail from a friend requesting that all Americans contact President-Elect Barack Obama to urge that he champion Al Gore’s proposal.

If you agree with Al Gore’s proposal, please

(1) hit your e-mail forward button and put the e-mail addresses of all your friends and acquaintances into the address section so that, through no more than six degrees of separation to 100% of the American population, we reach everyone, and

(2) send to President-Elect Obama a copy of the following message at http://www.change.gov/page/s/contact (which will require (A) inputting your name, address and e-mail address, (B) selecting “Other” in the space for “General Area,” (C) typing or cutting-pasting in the space for “Subject” – “Al Gore’s Challenge to America” and then (D) pasting the following message into the box provided.


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President-Elect Barack Obama
The Office of the President-Elect

Dear Mr. President-Elect:

Re: Al Gore's Nov 9 NYTimes OpEd Article

I strongly endorse Al Gore's proposal contained in his NY Times OpEd Article of November 9 to begin immediately to re-power America's electrical grid so that within 10 years it is carbon free!!!

This will (1) bring our economy back to life by creating American jobs, (2) achieve energy independence for our foreign policy, (3) eliminate our balance of payments deficit (borrowing $700 billion/year from the Chinese to buy oil from other foreign countries, many of whom hate us), and (4) constitute a major step in halting global warming.

Indeed, a failure to act would mean borrowing $7 trillion over the next 10 years from the Chinese to buy foreign oil - more than our total national debt at the beginning of 2008 and approximately half of our annual Gross Domestic Product.

Please don't let the Organization of Exporting Countries ("OPEC") get away with playing the same game during your tenure as President that they have played for the 35 years that they have been setting world oil prices - flooding the market to drive down world prices whenever it appears that America might get serious about taking action.

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