The Romney/Ryan ticket is just a double down by the GOP on its plan to destroy the middle class. While a member of Congress, Ryan crafted a budget plan that would end Medicare as we know it and slash funding for education and to fix our crumbling infrastructure, like bridges and roads. He has supported destructive free trade agreements, like CAFTA, that shipped good U.S. jobs overseas. Ryan wants to gamble with our retirement by privatizing social secruity. And, like Romney, he has supported attacks on collective bargaining rights for public workers and defended tax breaks for the rich.
We need to get the message out: The Romney/Ryan plan would transform America from the land of opportunity for all into a land of entitlement for the rich. They’re going to spend millions of dollars on TV ads, but we have something better than a pot of money from the Cayman Islands.
Each of you has the power to influence the people who matter most: your friends and family, the folks you talk to all the time. We don’t need media pundits to share our message when we have the power of real people.
Share our Facebook image now with your friends and family so that you, not Romney and Ryan’s rich donors, can be the one who gets the message out:
Top 10 Things You Didn’t Know About WindThe Department of Energy put together a list of the top ten things most people don’t know about wind energy. Check it out:
10. Human civilizations have harnessed wind power for thousands of years. Early forms of windmills used wind to crush grain or pump water. Now, modern wind turbines use the wind to create electricity. Learn how here.
9. A wind turbine has as many as 8,000 different components.
8. Wind turbines are big. A wind turbine blade can be up to 150 feet long, and a turbine tower can be over 250 feet tall, almost as tall as the Statue of Liberty.
7. Higher wind speeds mean more electricity, and wind turbines are getting taller to reach higher altitudes where it’s even windier. See the Energy Department’s website to find average wind speeds in your state or hometown.
6. Most of the components of wind turbines installed in the United States are manufactured here. Facilities for building wind turbine parts are located in more than 40 states, and the U.S. wind energy industry currently employs 75,000 people.
5. The technical resource potential of the winds above U.S. coastal waters is enough to provide over 4,000 gigawatts of electricity, or approximately four times the generating capacity of the current U.S. electric power system. Although not all of these resources will be developed, this represents a major opportunity to provide power to highly-populated coastal cities. See what the Energy Department is doing to develop offshore wind in the United States.
4. The United States generates more wind energy than any other country except China, and wind accounts for 35 percent of all newly installed U.S. electricity generation capacity over the last four years.
3. The United States’ wind power capacity reached 47,000 megawatts by the end of 2011 and has since grown to 50,000 megawatts. That’s enough electricity to power over 12 million homes annually — as many homes as in the entire state of California — and represents an 18-fold increase in capacity since 2000.
2. Wind energy is affordable. Wind prices for power contracts signed in 2011 are 50 percent lower than those signed in 2009, and levelized wind prices (the price the utility pays to buy power from a wind farm) are as low as 3 cents per kilowatt-hour in some areas of the country.
1. As much as 20 percent of our nation’s electricity could come from wind energy by 2030 but continued support for clean energy tax creditsis critical to achieving this target. That’s why President Obama is calling for an extension on the Production Tax Credit — to support wind producers in the U.S. and continue to help drive the wind industry’s growth.Get Updates
To learn more about the President’s vision for a more secure energy future and sign up to get updates, please visit: WhiteHouse.gov/energy.
Go inside the first-ever Kid’s State Dinner at the White House with this look into how the winners of the Healthy Lunchtime Challenge were picked. First Lady Michelle Obama’s initiative Lets Move! partnered with epicurious.com to showcase healthy lunches from all 50 states and the territories as created by children age 8-12. http://letsmove.govMore
Be a Seed for Change 
You must be logged in to post a comment.