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Kansas Congres

On February 7, @ 9:00 am, I was invited by one of our dealers, Richard Franz, who had been contacted by a Kansas Senator who told him he believed it was time for us to “rise into the radar” in Kansas and announce our project to the Senate Committee on utilities.  He wasn’t on that committee, but he could arrange to have them invite us to speak to them.  Our Dealer told him he might get me to come.  How could I miss an opportunity to speak to a State Senate Committee?  I would not dare say what I wanted to.  To be honest, I had no idea what to say.  I know exactly what they would want to hear and see.  How could I possibly explain why I would not be willing to expose the technology to this legislative body?  They are concerned about their coming energy crisis.  The California thing has also got them spooked as it has all states.  This committee wants to decide whether or not to deregulate and how to if they do.  In Kansas, the price of natural gas is going through the roof.  I didn’t realize that Kansas is the 7^th largest producer of natural gas.  They export 60% of their gas.  I accepted the invitation to speak.  They gave me 50 minutes.  They wanted a script to pass out in advance of the speech.  I tried to think of what to say for a week and it just wouldn’t come.  I told them there was no way to get a script.  I figured God would put the words in my mouth that day.  It was a shock when Alison said she wanted to come with me.  Then, the night before we were to leave we had a snow blizzard.  It was so bad that everyone had to go home at 3:30.  At that exact time, I got inspiration.  I sat down at my computer and my whole speech flowed out of me.  It was done at midnight.  When I sat down to read it, I was a little concerned about what it said.  It was not at all what I had thought I would say, but it was pretty well prepared and did say what the world needs to hear.  It did a great job of explaining why we could not just show them the technology while letting them know what our dealers are currently doing in their state.  I thought about it in the re-read and decided God was right about the approach.  I had no idea if they would accept it but if it was what God wanted me to do, then that was good enough for me.  By a miracle, I got out of our company parking lot and drove home in the snow.  Alison just did have time to proof and put her touches on it in the morning.  In fact, we made the airport limo wait ten minutes while the final copy was printed out.  When we got to Kansas, we found an all night Kinkos to make the 40 copies for the speech at 9:00 am.  We went to the office of the Senator in charge of the committee to meet for about 40 minutes before the presentation.  I had a chance to speak to him first.  I learned a lot there.  Supposedly they don’t care about the majors.  Our supply has peaked and at most, there is 20 years of supply left.  They were considering making a power plant (either nuclear or coal from Wyoming) to supply electricity for Colorado.  The Colorado citizens don’t want either one in their own backyard.  The point was that parts of Kansas are very unpopulated.  They have 3-4 people per square mile in the area close to Colorado.  That means they have no political problem polluting their own state to make power elsewhere.  He explained that they need an industry really bad.  When he told me that I realized that maybe there was a good reason for me to be there.  That was it.  Maybe God was testing their group of legislators in Kansas because they are centrally located in the USA.  How they could react to my presentation would tell the story.  If we had a central distribution system in Kansas, we could ship units anywhere (or even deliver centrally).  They’ve got great railroad and highway everywhere.  Training and local manufacturing could be easily facilitated.  As I sat there hearing him tell me they were not concerned about the major oil and gas guys, I had a really good thought.  What if I read the speech God had given me and I did not get rejected but they understood and were even supportive?  Could it be that was the reason I was going?  That would make it all make sense.  In a few minutes I would know.  We were scheduled to have lunch with this Senator at noon, and we could explore the possibilities.  We were also scheduled to meet the chairman at the House Committee on energy at 1:30 pm.  I knew there were to be 40 people coming, but I was surprised to hear why.  Having heard I was coming, the House Committee decided they also wanted to attend my presentation so they had to move it to a bigger room.  There would be 40 people from the Senate and House.  This was the first time the House had asked to sit in on a presentation! WOW!  Could it be that at long last I had found a legislative body that could support the truth?  If they wanted an industry I’d bring them more than they could ever want.  Imagine a state legislature friendly to our project?  I was really excited as I walked with the Chairman of the Senate Committee to what might be the biggest breakthrough of the last two decades of my life!  I told our dealers we would know if, after my 50 minute presentation, they stayed beyond the 50 minutes asking questions because they would not have planned on that.  It would mean they really got it!  As a confirmation of what the Lord had given me, Richard (our dealer) had written an introduction without hearing any knowledge of what I was going to say.  It was a perfect introduction as you can see for yourself in the speech and introduction that immediately follows:

INTRODUCTION

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