{"id":225,"date":"2015-02-25T23:49:58","date_gmt":"2015-02-25T23:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecafeprojects.com\/declarationproject\/?p=225"},"modified":"2015-07-02T00:48:57","modified_gmt":"2015-07-02T00:48:57","slug":"225","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/declarationproject.org\/?p=225","title":{"rendered":"Declaration of American Energy Independence (2011)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Editor’s Note: According to this site<\/a>, this declaration, which in structure and rhetoric at least in part was inspired by our July 4, 1776 document,\u00a0was signed in August 2011 “during several Energy Patriots events held in Fort McHenry in Baltimore, MD; York, PA; and Philadelphia, PA. The event was sponsored by AmeriGeen, a Manheim-based biofuel supplier.”<\/p>\n

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Declaration of American Energy Independence<\/h1>\n<\/header>\n
\u00a0When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the bands which have connected them through an ineffective national energy policy, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal, but all sources of and access to energy are not. We are endowed with certain unalienable rights \u2013 Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. Like our energy sources, these rights are becoming increasingly diminished: LIFE \u2013 Now challenged by the growing environmental destruction of our planet through increased consumption and dependence upon nonrenewable fuels LIBERTY \u2013 The restraint of our domestic economic freedoms associated with the cost of armed protection of oil sources in foreign lands \u2013 while being at the mercy of powers in these foreign lands to dictate worldwide price and pressure our very government PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS \u2013 The insecurity resulting from the threats above, and inherent in our countries refusal to broadly support alternative fuels and power in the face of a growing depletion of nonrenewable sources In the face of these destructive ends, it compels us to call upon our government to change, instituting new principles for Safety, Happiness and Prudence \u2013 those very same words that formed our first declaration in 1776. The call to government: SAFETY \u2013 To commit to a clear and measured course of reducing our reliance on nonrenewable fuels in general, but firstly from fuels imported from elsewhere than North America \u2013 safety in energy security HAPPINESS \u2013 To commit to a clear and measured course of financial and other public\/private support for American ingenuity in the research and viable commercialization of domestic sources of renewable fuels \u2013 happiness in the knowledge that we have an unalterable national will for a domestic renewable energy economy PRUDENCE \u2013 To communicate consistently and clearly to the American people that these courses of energy action are absolutely necessary for the economic, social, and environmental welfare of our country and anything otherwise is ruinous in the ever nearer term Governments are instituted among Men and Women deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. \u2022 The governed reject the special interests granted to the energy few including the fostering of habits which increase our nonrenewable energy addiction, \u2022 we reject the continued reliance on nonrenewable fuels, and the oft despotic or unfriendly nations which control our access and economic fortune \u2022 we reject the partisanship of our elected few which has led to a fractious, inconsistent, ineffective and thus impotent energy policy For our planet, our people, our prosperity, and our public wealth and wellness\u2026 We, the people hereby declare and give our hand in pledge, individually and collectively, to pursue the course of domestically sourced energy and, wherever possible, renewable sources, and from this day forward do all in our power to promote a national movement committed to these ends. Our signature below is the start of the call for all Americans to do likewise.<\/div>\n
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http:\/\/www.amerigreen.com\/100AmericanFuels\/DeclarationofEnergyIndependence.aspx<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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