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STAGE1 works to promote America’s energy independence first by Stop Taxing American Grown Energy – STAGE1. The elimination of the at-the-pump gas tax on E-85 ethanol and bio-diesel will help create the consumer demand for American grown energy alternatives. A consumer market for American grown energy will be greatly enhanced when millions of American drivers can ask gas station attendants, “Where’s the pump that I don’t pay the gas tax?”

Cleaner air, more American jobs, less petrol-dollars going to hostile countries, and drivers get a tax break when buying American grown energy! That’s a pretty good start – that’s STAGE1.

GUEST EDITORIAL

What do President George W. Bush and Senator Hillary Clinton, Texans Willy Nelson and T. Boone Pickens, and organizations as diverse as the American Conservative Union to the Sierra Club all agree on? American energy independence isn’t just a good idea…it’s imperative. For the protection of our environment, protection of our economy, protection of our citizens from terrorism, our addiction to foreign oil must be reduced. On this all Americans can agree.

So what are we doing about it?

The quest for American energy independence will take many stages, but the first stage should be this: Stop Taxing American Grown Energy. That’s what the new citizens group STAGE 1 is all about.

When American drivers pull up to the gas pump, we pay 18.4 cents per gallon in Federal gas tax as well as state taxes between 8 and 32 cents per gallon. That’s a total of 26 to 50 cents of tax for every gallon of gasoline we pump into our cars and trucks -- as much as $20 in taxes every time we fill up a big SUV.

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	THE STAGE 1 PROPOSAL
	Encourage America’s Drivers to choose clean American grown energy over polluting imported oil by: 1. Placing on the ballot by citizen initiative and winning the elimination of state imposed at-the-pump gas taxes on American grown energy. 2. Getting state legislatures to eliminate at-the-pump gas taxes on American grown energy. 3. Getting Congress to end the Federal 18.4 cent per gallon taxes on American grown energy. We can do each of these…but only with your help!



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