April 21 2005 With oil prices at nearrecord highs this week Senator Katherine Laforge took the opportunity to speak out about the positive actions California has embarked upon to be more
energy self reliant and less dependent on foreign oil The energy issue is a major concern in California as indicated by numerous power outages and the fact that they have the highest
average gas price of any state in the union
Sen Katherine Laforge praised Governor Schwarzenegger for his pledge to move towards creating one million solar paneled roofs during his term as governor of California Gov Schwarzenegger
stated I promised the people of California during the campaign that as governor I would push for solar power Today I am keeping that promise to harness renewable solar energy with the
help of my friends... to create one million solar roofs
Sen Laforge passionately protests the United States' unquenchable thirst for oil and said
Our country has become the oil hog of the world voraciously using more oil per capita than any other country in the world The United States uses twice as much oil per capita than any
other country She contends that we have become dangerously dependent on foreign oil in recent years With the money the United States spends importing oil every year it would be very easy
and cost effective to develop and improve on existing technologies for wind solar BioDiesel Thermal Depolymerization and hydroelectric power
Senator Katherine Laforge is expected to pioneer a key movement towards alternative energy both before and after the next presidential election Gov Schwarzenegger efforts towards more
solar power in California is a positive step in her effort to make alternative energy a reality In the Senator's latest address she focused on America's overdependency of foreign oil and
expanded on the Governor's plan by suggesting new programs to make us completely selfreliant through renewable energy sources She said America has become a vassal state to OPEC Our
military men and women are offered as a serf army to the OPEC nations We use billions of US tax dollars and the blood of our soldiers to preserve the power of these unpopular governments
Wind power and solar energy could quickly free us from OPEC's shackles
Sen Laforge's has made her belief clear that the energy problem should be a bipartisan issue solved by members of all political persuasions Gov Schwarzenegger among other highranking
leaders have showed through actions that they share many of the views Senator Katherine Laforge espouses on oil and alternative energy issues A major concern of Senator Katherine Laforge
has always been the dream to implement an alternative energy program that would allow us to say Hasta La Vista Baby to the tight grip the Middle East has on us
Currently the US spends three hundred billion dollars or more just to ensure that oil from the Middle East reaches us This cost is not included in the barrel price that news sources use
to gauge the current price of oil but you pay it in income taxes as the shipping charges for the oil to our shores
Sen Laforge proposes to ...allocate a sum of money equal in significance to the money budgeted to insure OPEC oil reaches our shores A sum of that magnitude in billions of dollars should
be used to create solar power plants thousands of wind farms thermal conversion processing plants and pay for research on more efficient ways to use hydrogen energy A billion dollars
spend in that fashion would provide benefits for decades to come instead of simply being a one time fee to insure delivery of a shipload of oil
The United States government has failed to implement any policy that would seriously decrease our dependency on oil from the volatile Middle East and other foreign counties President Bush
released a statement last Saturday encouraging new energy legislation but nothing yet of any significance has been accomplished during the last congressional session Sen Laforge reminds
her followers that it is the duty of elected leaders to find better ways to meet the energy needs of their constituents through alternative means and not by simply accepting the status
quo or shoring up governments of friendly Middle East regimes She hopes that concerned citizens will start grass roots campaigns insuring that bipartisan energy legislation is introduced
that charts out a national move to reduce foreign oil dependency
The Senator Katherine Laforge's full platform may be viewed at httpwwwhulaguswebcom She will be releasing her own book Hulagu's Web - The presidential pursuit of Senator Katherine Laforge
in July 2005
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