I wrote the other day about Bob kinford's campaign for president of the United States. Here's some more information about some of the issues on which Kinford is basing his run:

"Bob Kinford for President - A grassroots campaign for change in the government "

"As I ( Bob Kinford) am writing this, there are several hundred thousand people in the Pacific Northwest without power. There are also between ten and twenty thousand more without power here in Texas. Last summer there were power outages affecting millions of people. Why? The federal government wants us to believe it is because the power grid needs to be modernized (so they can give more money to their utility company benefactors).

The fact is, the grid should only be supplying minimal power at this point. The vast majority of homes in this country could be supplying their own electricity through a combination of solar/wind power generation systems. Even high rise apartment complexes and office buildings could be supplying a large part of their own electricity by this method. Why hasn’t Congress, or individual states, required this to be a part of all new buildings?

If we can afford to give our tax money to utility companies so that they can modernize the grid and/or their power plants, why can’t our tax money be returned to us when we make our homes self sufficient? They do it simply because they receive more campaign contributions from utility companies than they do from individual taxpayers. How do we change this? "

Read and subscribe via RSS to Bob Kinford's blog at rekinford.bravejournal.com . You should find some important policy ideas there.