Foreclosure Prevention Workshop Scheduled
Rep. George Miller and Rep. Ellen Tauscher will be sponsoring a Foreclosure Prevention Workshop to assist Northern California families worried about foreclosure.
Saturday, August 16th
10am-3pm
5100 Business Center Drive, Fairfield
(Solano County Office of Education)
For more information, please contact (925) 602-1880
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Energy Crisis heats things up
As energy bills across the country continue to climb, more people to get creative in saving money on their energy bills. Some, as shown in this Wall Street Journal article, are braving the heat and turning the air conditioning up a few degrees.
Others of you are also getting creative, whether it is simply changing to CFL light bulbs or investing in solar panels for your house. Check out even more ways you can conserve on the In Focus: Energy blog. I'm working hard to make create modern energy solutions.
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DRILL Act proposed by Democrats
Earlier this week, a majority of the House voted in favor of the Democrats’ Drill Responsibly in Leased Lands (DRILL) Act. Because of the particular rules of the House, however, we needed to win by two thirds, not just a majority. So the bill was not approved this time around. The DRILL Act would:
-- promote drilling in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska, an area that would produce more oil and faster than drilling in ANWR
-- reinstate a ban on foreign export of Alaskan oil
-- compel oil companies to drill on the 68 million federal acres they already have the right to drill in.
The DRILL act is just one part of our Comprehensive Energy Solution that includes:
-- breaking our addiction to oil
-- investing in renewable energy and conservation techniques
-- diversifying our energy portfolio to include solar, wind, geothermal, biofuel power
-- releasing oil from strategic reserves right now
Democrats are calling on the President to release 10% of America’s oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR). Releasing oil from the SPR would immediately help to lower gas prices, while drilling offshore would take decades to provide any new oil and would reduce the price of gas by less than two cents per gallon.
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