ENERGY INDEPENDENCE…America’s future depends on it !
Why are these men smiling?   We’re not!

Secure energy sources make America secure.  98% of the American transportation runs on oil.  Nearly 70% of that oil is imported.  We have allowed our energy supplies to grow more tenuous since the first Oil Crisis of 1973 when foreign oil reliance was 24%.  Have we not learned; unreliable fuel sources jeopardize American security and the American Economy?

• America’s expenditures on foreign oil are 150% of our National Defense Budget.
• The OPEC cartel controls global oil pricing by controlling global supply. OPEC has 70% of the world’s oil reserves, yet the cartel provides only 40% of world oil production, essentially unchanged since 1977.
• OPEC has used oil as an economic weapon before. On August 4, 2008 Iran threatened closure of the Straits of Hormuz “easily and on an unlimited basis”. Analysts predicted $300 per barrel oil in such an event.
• The US is 5% of the world’s population, controls 3% of the world’s oil reserves, yet uses an unsustainable 25% of the world annual oil production.
• High priced oil hurts not just at the pump. World food prices have escalated dramatically due to associated cost of petroleum in fertilizers, production, harvesting, processing and transportation.
• High priced oil cripples America’s economy. Between November 2007 and June 2008 Americans drove 53.2 billion fewer miles than they did over the same eight-month period a year earlier. That's a larger decline than the 49.3 billion fewer miles driven by Americans over the entire decade of the 1970s, a period marked by oil embargoes and gas lines.
  
  You can help Safeguard America’s future:

1) Write your Senators and Congressman to cosponsor S 3303/hr6559 The Open Fuel Standard to “break Oil’s monopoly of liquid fuel for transportation through a rapid phase in of Flex Fuel vehicles capable running on, in any combination, ethanol, methanol or gasoline and eliminate the use of oil and oil wealth as a strategic weapon.” The technology exists, is proven, is scalable and can be incorporated in new automobiles at $100 – 200 per vehicle.  Flex Fuel technology has already helped Brazil achieve energy independence.

1st:  Go to http://www.visi.com/juan/congress
2nd: Enter your address on the bottom left of the page & click “submit“
3rd: Click the link for each representatives electronic correspondence
4th: Write to each representative asking them to “Please cosponsor and support The Bipartisan Open Fuel Standard Act (S.3303 / HR 6559) to help America break the oil monopoly.”

2) Learn more at www.setamericafree.org.  

3) Attend the Set America Free Energy Freedom Summit, Oct 24 & 25 in Chicago, Illinois. http://setamericafree.roundtablelive.org.

For more information:
Steve Oppenheimer @ oppyga@aol.com