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Parents are pushed into compromising their values and morals to those that lack common decency in our community. Those that advocate this play in its current form show how dumbing down our society is inflicted upon those that stand for high meaning and values. Teachers are MENTORS to CHILDREN and anything less is criminal. Standards must be set with clear goals and achievements. This is a crack to let sex offenders have access to our children. Home schooling must make a comeback since schools refuse to up hold moral values.
Tim Moles - Oregon State
posted 4 years, 2 months ago
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on Green Collar Jobs
What is the most consumed source of energy?
A: Glucose (sugar)
Roughly, a tree is 50% sugar. So why do we not talk about the real source of renewable energy. Plant life. Farmers and loggers provide the largest volume of Green Jobs, but are termed a blight on the land. Non-food Biomass conversion into ethanol and diesel is our only near term solution for rural transportation needs.
60% of Oregon is owned and controlled by public domain but is being more and more controlled by 1% of the people (environmentalists). Most Oregonians I speak to are conservationists and want to live in balance with nature, not to turn 2/3s of the State into a Preserve. This is a terrible waste of valuable resources for our people. For the most part we cut down the junk forest and burn it in place or let it burn uncontrollable because over fuel load conditions, which is going directly into the atmosphere. The biomass community is on the cusps of creating ethanol for $.81 per gallon from non food sources.
2. What is the largest source of power to create biomass?
A: Solar Power
So if we want to be good stewards of resources solar biomass production is our most efficient means to convert the sun into liquid fuel.
Problem; most of the high tech batteries required for the electric cars is made with heavy metals and come from some of the most dangerous places in the world. We will be trading one war for another as we compete for more and more scarce resources.
Solution: Support your local farmer and logger with the latest conversion technology available.
It appears that when one mentions Green they think of solar, wind or remodeling jobs. The problem is the lack of liquid renewable fuel.
Sincerely,
Tim Moles Oregon State
posted 4 years, 2 months ago
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on Our Slice of the Stimulus
Elected officials are out golfing? "I have not reviewed the plan" "I looked at it this weekend". "I have not seen this legislation yet"
We are in a world of hurt.
posted 4 years, 3 months ago
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on Our Slice of the Stimulus
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on Our Slice of the Stimulus
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on Our Slice of the Stimulus
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on Our Slice of the Stimulus
Hundreds of millions of dollars has been awarded in renewable energy grants from Genomics to ethanol education with no one in this state, which I know of, except the OSU Sun Grant has any entity applied for this money. The Governor's Biomass Working Group has waned and has no direction. This is what I think the Governor had planned all along. He has displayed a blatant disregard to working with communities by offering no hope for a future stake in forest fuel management. Talk and rhetoric does not put food on the table or liquid fuel in our transportation sector. With the right leadership Oregon can clean up its forests form logging and stewardship practices of old and convert it into Biodiesel and E85 ethanol. Oregon can help elevate foreign oil demand via converting its forest and agriculture waste into liquid energy, not extension cord renewable energy and reduce the pressure on the last man standing scenario “war for depleting resources”. Solving our liquid energy needs ranks up there with the “Manhattan Project” There is currently close to 300 million in grant money from US DOE and US National Science Institute that have a pre-application letter due by the end of February, first part of March. Who is applying for this? Now with the Stimulus Plan committing close to 50 billion in renewable energy programs the question is who will be applying for this? Tuesday, February 17, we have our next meeting at the Tillamook Building, Oregon Department of Forestry, Salem. It is open to the public and I encourage all to come and take part in our future. http://www.oregon.gov/ENERGY/RENEW/Biomass/OBCG-FBWG.shtml Checkout the website last update date.
To my fellow Oregonians I thank you for allowing me to share my position and post my questions. I pray People are as important as trees.
Sincerely,
Timothy Edward Moles
Chairman
E85 foundation (non-profit) 503 791-2653
posted 4 years, 3 months ago
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on Our Slice of the Stimulus
How will Oregon manage its forestry industry via this stimulus plan? Will Oregon apply for renewable energy grants? Is Oregon one big State and Federal Park that is off limits to industry? I was born and raised in Salem Oregon and have spent the last 5 years working in Eastern Oregon performing forest health improvements and forest fuel reduction and have witnessed the systematic attack on utilizing our natural resources. While we meet at the Governors Biomass Working Group in the Oregon Department of Forestry since 2005 nothing has been acted on or even has reached a consensus where we are trying get to. All the while forests continue to remain in a very unhealthy condition that is highly susceptible to severe wild fires and beetle infestations. Eastern Oregon communities have had their high schools de-rated because people are forced to move from loss of work.
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