letter to my representatives in congress.

Today I sent a letter to both my senators (Klobuchar and Coleman for Minnesota) and representative (John Kline for the 2nd district) and asked them to commit to making America's energy 100% clean within ten years. Here is my letter -- I ask you to write your representatives as well!! Together, WE CAN SOLVE OUR ENERGY CRISIS!!!!


Senator _______ -

I would like you to commit to making our energy 100% clean within ten years. We cannot continue relying on oil as our main form of energy, and we cannot open ANWR or allow oil companies to drill off our shores, without drilling in the lands they already have leased to them. With our oil consumption expected to increase 140% by 2020, offshore drilling is not the answer. Furthermore, offshore drilling will not affect current gas prices because new rigs will not come online for at least 7 - 15 years. Even if we see a short term relief at the pump, this is in no way a long term answer to our problems and simply and band-aid solution. Instead of wasting money on something that will not help for a decade with only minimal positive impacts, we must invest NOW in a long term solution.

No, sir/ma’am - the answer is alternative energy. We need to invest more resources in technology so that processes such as the "Mcgyan Process" (invented at our own Augsburg) can continue to be invented right here in Minnesota and the United States. We also need to invest our resources in wind, solar, natural gas, and geothermal energy, in tar sands and shale oil and in technology for clean coal emissions. Moreover, a company called "Zap Inc." based in California ALREADY has developed the technology to engineer electric cars, but don't have a manufacturing in America and don't have enough money to build one. Technology for electric cars already exists! Now we just need to invest in it so we have the opportunity to mass produce them in the US.

In the race to the moon, President Kennedy said we choose to do it not because it is easy, but because it is hard. We need to renew that passion for innovation and technological growth in America that we enjoyed in the 1960s. We need to return America to its rightful place as a front runner in technology on the world stage - and not for a war.

To think that we are spending ten billion dollars a month on the Iraqi Conflict, instead of at home. People ask why are economy is doing so bad -- what a stupid question. I think it's quite obvious. We are not energy independent, and we are throwing away billions of dollars every month on a war that cannot be won, instead of investing it in the future of America.

This is why, Senator ________, I ask you to make a commitment to make America's energy 100% clean in ten years. Together, we can solve it!

Respectfully,

Chris Morgan
St. Olaf College