Set America Free Coalition launches 111th Congress
Fuel Choice Advocacy
End the OPEC OIL Monopoly for $100 per vehicle

Last week marked the bipartisan introduction of H.R. 1476:  The Open Fuel
Standard in the House of Representatives by Reps. Eliot Engel (D-NY), Bob Inglis(R-SC), Steve Israel (D-NY) and Roscoe Bartlett (R-MD).  The bill would pave the way for fuel choice in American automobile transportation.  A similar bipartisan
Senate measure is anticipated soon.

The Open Fuel Standard would ensure that starting in 2012, 50% of new
automobiles powered by an internal combustion engine, and starting in 2015, 80%
of such new automobiles, be flex fuel vehicles warranted to operate on gasoline,
ethanol, and methanol, or be warranted to operate on biodiesel.  Flex Fuel capability in new cars has a nominal cost of approximately $100.  The Big 3 Automakers currently manufacture 90% of the cars produced for the Brazil market as flex fuel vehicles.

The CEOs of the Big Three auto companies have repeatedly stated their
willingness to commit to making 50% of new cars flex fuel vehicles or warranted
to operate on biodiesel by 2012.  Anne Korin, chair of the Set America Free
Coalition, a diverse alliance focused on stripping oil of its strategic value by
breaking its virtual monopoly over transportation fuels, noted  "The Open Fuel
Standard Act would buttress this commitment with law, ensuring that most new
cars will be platforms on which fuels can compete, thus providing certainty for
investors in a variety of alternative fuels to ramp up production and fuel
station owners to install pumps."

Gal Luft, a founding member of the Set America Free Coalition, said:  “Fuel
Choice remains as critical today with gas at $2 per gallon as it was last year
when oil was $147 per barrel and the pump price of gas was $4 per gallon. It
costs the automakers an extra $100 per car to give us the insurance policy we
need to prepare us for the next oil crisis that will surely come once we pull
out of the recession.”

We need many voices, you and your friends, to make the message of FUEL CHOICE
(an integral component of energy independence) reverberate in the offices of the
administration and the Halls of Congress so it becomes part of their agenda!
For a summary of the problems with dependency on foreign oil & America's
at hand solution watch the 2 minute video at : www.setamericafree.org  

If you wrote your Representatives last year it's time to do it again, as it is a NEW session of Congress.  To write to your Senators, Congressman and President Obama to support the open Fuel Standard: http://capwiz.com/citizensforenergyfreedom/issues/alert/?alertid=12929786&PROCESS=Take+Action

To join the activist network, receive updates and action alerts contact:
info@setamericafree.org  

If America is ever going to achieve Energy Independence, we must begin now.  The road to Brazil's transportation energy independence was paved by fuel choice. 

Gas (only) stations must become a thing of the past... if we're going to have a viable future.   If it's been done in Brazil, so can America!

-A Message From Stephen Oppenheimer, DDS
oppyga@aol.com