An online renewable energy advocacy group, World Oil Boycott, has launched a major drive to see sweeping legislation in 2006 that would revolutionize the US energy industry. The initiative calls for a resurrection, expansion and re-introduction of Bill S 427, introduced in the first session of 2005. The Bill is currently languishing in committee.
The group has called for the modernization of the national energy grid – in the name of promoting international peace - via dramatic renewable energy consumption requirements by all federal offices. The broad and sweeping legislation of the revised bill would lead to:
- investment to provide research in making renewable energy technologies more efficient and more affordable;
- investment to provide businesses with tax incentives to switch to consumption of 100% renewable energy derived electricity;
- investment to provide tax incentives to home owners and businesses to purchase Energy Star rated gas furnaces and heaters;
- investment of $100 tax credit to home owners who provide receipt of their purchase of twice as many fluorescent light bulbs as rooms in their homes;
- investment to rebuild the national energy grid to include superefficient transmission lines; - investment to incentivize cities to upgrade their power lines;
- investment to fund the state construction of renewable energy 'greenways' along highways, including electric car battery swap stations and renewable fuels stations;
- investment to help all the major cities transition to clean electric powered mass transit systems, with batteries charged 100% by renewable energy;
- investment to provide tax incentives to individuals and business to purchase hybrid or electric automobiles;
- investment to provide tax incentives to the automotive industry to increase the efficiency of their gasoline and diesel-powered offerings;
- investment to provide tax incentives to the trucking industry to purchase vehicles or retrofit existing vehicle with technologies that allow them meet clean air and mileage standards;
- investment to support research in capturing energy otherwise lost in manufacturing, energy production, transportation, and domestic energy consumption;
- investment to research how to transition from a dangerous and eternally polluting nuclear fission power to clean and safe domestic nuclear fusion;
- investment to build massive solar trough farms in California and Nevada to help power California's growth and relieve them of their demand of unethically artifically expensive power from Texas;
- investment to create ultraefficient high-speed rail systems between major cities;
- legislation to require the adoption of ultra-efficient construction methods during the construction of all new federal buildings, and requiring that all new federal buildings be designed as 'green buildings';
- investment to create national awareness of the renewable energy options available to energy consumers, steps that consumers can take to reduce their non-renewable resource derived energy consumption, and the urgency of our need to transition to become a renewable-energy powered country;
- investment to export our best renewable energy technology to developing countries to assist their populations in emerging from poverty and squalor into productive populations powered by our mother the earth and our father the sky;
- requirement that all federal government offices transition to eventually consume 100% renewable energy-derived electricity by 2010, or equivalent through Renewable Energy Credits;
- requirement that all light bulbs purchased by federal agencies meet efficiency standard set by fluorescent alternatives to incandescent bulbs; - investment for a national competition among cities of >100,000 people to become powered by >95 renewable energy by 2010, with the reward being that the federal government will pay the energy bill of all citizens of the first city in the year 2010-2015.
- investment to insure that New Orleans becomes one of the first truly green cities in the United States of America.
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