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Vincardog

(20,234 posts) Tue Mar 11, 2014, 08:49 PM Mar 2014

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I am a delegate to the District and State. I am volunteering to be on the platform committee

What do you want to see be planks on the platform?

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I am a delegate to the District and State. I am volunteering to be on the platform committee (Original Post) Vincardog Mar 2014 OP

Does Iowa have an "efficiency standard"? Kolesar Mar 2014 #1

IA has no auto efficiency standard. Vincardog Mar 2014 #2

Electrical utilities can be required to fund efficiency projects Kolesar Mar 2014 #3

climate change, verified voting, money out of politics rurallib Mar 2014 #4

Yikes. You're braver than I am cyberswede Mar 2014 #5

Kolesar

(31,182 posts)

1. Does Iowa have an "efficiency standard"?

Reply to Vincardog (Original post)

Tue Mar 11, 2014, 09:12 PM

Mar 2014

I know you have a Renewable Energy Portfolio Standard.

Vincardog

(20,234 posts)

2. IA has no auto efficiency standard.

Reply to Kolesar (Reply #1)

Tue Mar 11, 2014, 09:14 PM

Mar 2014

Kolesar

(31,182 posts)

3. Electrical utilities can be required to fund efficiency projects

Reply to Vincardog (Reply #2)

Tue Mar 11, 2014, 09:18 PM

Mar 2014

It ultimately reduces peak demand, which saves the cost of constructing new generating plants.

Iowa has had a system since 2008, so this would not be a new issue to campaign on. I lobbied for the Ohio law in the same year. http://mwalliance.org/node/1867

rurallib

(62,373 posts)

4. climate change, verified voting, money out of politics

Reply to Vincardog (Original post)

Tue Mar 11, 2014, 09:24 PM

Mar 2014

get off oil - that should do for a start.
Better you than me. Have fun with my friends from Johnson county and be sure to bring something to sleep on.

cyberswede

(26,117 posts)

5. Yikes. You're braver than I am

Reply to Vincardog (Original post)

Tue Mar 11, 2014, 10:40 PM

Mar 2014

Platform committee can be...interesting.

On edit: thanks for volunteering your time!

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