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INCREASE NATIONAL SECURITY

REQUIRE RENEWABLE PORTFOLIO STANDARDS:

On September 19, 2001, James Woolsey, former Director of the CIA, Admiral Thomas H. Moorer, Former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Robert C. McFarlane, Former National Security Advisor to President Reagan, sent a letter to US Senator Jim Jeffords of Vermont and other members of the Senate. They urged in the strongest terms that the Senate take immediate action to address our energy security. Among other recommendations, they urged “the Energy Committee to immediately adopt the Renewable Portfolio Standard...." See http://jeffords.senate.gov/~jeffords/press/02/03/03062002renewable_energy.html

These leaders know where the real danger to US security lies--energy source dependence. Senator Jeffords believes, "An increasing reliance on energy imports from politically unstable areas of the world is not in America's best interests, and we must reassert our dominance over our own energy production and innovation. One of the most important ways to achieve this is to wean ourselves from foreign oil in our transportation sector, and to diversify the energy base for our electricity generation into clean, domestically produced renewable resources." An indispensible part of achieving this goal is the renewable portfolio standard legislation.

Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) legislation has been enacted in 17 states and introduced in Congress as a national goal. The various stautes provide that different percentages of the electricity sold in that state would come from the wind. Producing energy from the wind reduces the need to import liquified natural gas (LNG). If the wind energy is used to create hydrogen as a fuel substitute for oil, it reduces our dependence on OPEC. For more on RPS, click here.

REDUCE VULNERABILITY OF ENERGY SOURCES TO TERRORIST ATTACK:

Nuclear power plants are targets for terrorism. So are hydroelectric dams and coal-fired electric generating plants. Windmills can be set in a variety of places, diversifying the locations of our power supply. Also, since windmills are smaller than conventional electric power producing facilities, if a windmill is destroyed by terror attacks, the damage to our power supply will be less than if a nuclear or coal plant were taken out.

IMPROVE THE ELECTRIC TRANSMISSION GRID:

The "Electric Reliability Security Act of 2005," will increase the reliability and security of the electricity grid in an efficient, cost-effective, and environmentally sound manner. The legislation will create mandatory uniform federal rules requiring that utilities operating power systems to ensure reliable delivery of power; provide $10 billion in loan guarantees to invest in and modernize existing transmission and distribution systems; and establish national standards for "net-metering" to allow existing alternative energy sources, such as home windmills and extra power generated by manufacturing facilities, to be sold back to the grid and provide additional power.

U.S. Senator Jim Jeffords is sponsoring this bill. U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., and Edward Kennedy, D-MA, are cosponsors of the legislation.

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