The Last John Hall Update

I'm sorry I didn't post more of these stories, but I had other concerns (you know the drill). . . . Anyway, here's the last entry in my occasional series. . . .

John Hall - The First One Hundred Days!

Yes, with the first one hundred days of the 110th Congress almost over, we revisit one more time the seventies rock star turned U.S. Representative from New York's 19th District! :-)

From the Mid-Hudson News:

Wind power is viable energy alternative, officials say

Beacon - Hudson Valley residents were given a chance to see just how beneficial using wind energy could be Monday evening when Congressman John Hall hosted a forum on the topic.

The congressman invited several specialists in the field to the Howland Cultural Center in the City of Beacon to help promote his wind energy initiatives and the overall benefit of alternative energy.

Paul Curran from BQ Energy, one of the guest speakers, said that New York and the Hudson Valley in particular have enough resources to use wind energy, and that now is the best time financially to play catch up with the rest of the energy world.

He said 23 percent of energy in Denmark is produced from wind and 15 percent of all the energy in Germany is generated from wind. New York is at about one percent, Curran said.

Hall has been using wind energy at his Dover Plains home for several months, and as of next month will begin to use bio-diesel fuel for his home heating as well.

“This is not a pie-in-the-sky, sometime in the future maybe kind of thing. Wind power is supporting a big portion of our power right now,” Hall said. “It’s the fastest growing private investment portion of our portfolio in the United States, and we just want to show people that it’s possible for individuals, for farmers, and for businesses to be involved, based on their location of course, in wind, and for individuals like me to buy it on the back of their energy bill.”

Congress is currently working through its Clean Energy Act of 2006, in which they took back tax cuts from oil-producing companies and used them for research on renewable energy sources like wind power.
Hall will also be taking to the floor a new bill next week to further promote the usage of wind energy across the country on a broader scale. He said he will also continue to push for other forms of alternative energy, including bio-diesel and ethanol fuels.