story and we always have different guests and today our guest we have is from cascade power well come along thank you so much for having me on the show and i feel so honored to have the privilege of being able to share what we've this year is elections day and this is an election year so we have to remember that obama's cause is to be reelected and this is his big chance to tell the world how he feels and also the more positive that he can make his message the more likelihood he is to get more votes now that's not to devalue the words that he said it's just to put things in perspective right so there was a couple of things that he said during his address that i was really excited about us as a company are really excited about but there were some other things that he said that maybe i was wondering if there was some some other interests involved and being hawaiian we have to see what it is and really know the truth because used the word twenty three times during his state of the union address which means clearly that this is a big topic for americans the question for me though was what how does that affect us like ok i see the big guys there doing their thing and they're all talking about how to use energy but what about me well i started to look into a little bit about the cost of energy one thing i noticed was that we pay seven cents a kilowatt hour here in washington state in hawaii they pay almost thirty five cents a kilowatt hour we're talking about residential commercial you know like whole that is a lot of money i mean you take your utility bill two hundred dollars or whatever it might be and multiply it by five and that's what hoeing is paying for their electorates cost of living there outrageous and so what obama was talking about was about getting more energy so one of the things he said was over the last three years we opened millions of new eight years of land for oil and gas exploration in another statement he said two percent of oil reserves is not enough that the country needed an all out strategy that develops every available source of american energy cleaner cheaper and full of new jobs well my question to the president is how can opening up new millions of acres of new land to further mine for oil and gas how does that become cheaper and more efficient you touched on a really really powerful topic and that's waste we waste more energy than we would ever have to mine for we just don't see it  so our job so that's educating the masses absolutely that is what we know exactly so cascade power group as an entity myself and our our staff is dedicated to that absolutely we've designed a program that basically takes people from step on to basically the way that it works is we waste so much to just identify what we're wasting market down say ok we're not going to waste that and we take the savings from that and we use that to invest into a bank account or whatever might be the case to get that solar panel at least you're working toward yes something everyone ok so you have regarding the state of the union yes he had mentioned some things that i thought you know why are we drilling some more why are we going to the offshore drilling that he had mentioned one of the very powerful statements that he made was tonight i am directing my administration to open up more than seventy five percent of our offshore oil and gas resources the initial thought that came to my mind was are we breaking the bank or breaking our piggy bank because we don't have enough resources but when i look around as a member of cascade part grooved all i see is waste waste that we don't need to mine for waste that can provide the energy that we don't have to put people at risk for like the louisiana oil spill if we start drilling here who can tell where we're going to start drilling next alaska hawaii where it's full of natural resources well it's companies like yours ok and what you're doing that i believe if there's more local companies educate the local people of ways that they can reduce it we're not going to have a we live on oil i think that i think i really love the idea that earlier we had talked about a company that you had helped them share that that little little nugget of how much money you see them ok so one of our flagship clients one of our most successful clients is a school district here  on the east side of washington the school district is about forty two schools larch so it's a pretty good sized school prior to us coming they were spending about seven million dollars a year on utility resources you know  and ultimately we've been able to reduce that about a million and a half dollars per year and we've been there for about five years so we've got about seven million dollars and utility savings from just this one client well that can buy a lot of new school books and educate more teachers to be better absolutely all of that money that we save goes back to what they call the general fund and that money goes directly to help the students you know see now that the way more people do that we i mean we're going to be people are going to have to ask the same thing i'm asking so what does that mean so there's a middle school on the east side and we're going to litter their roofs and it's actually already in construction with solar panels which is going to help power the school and three hundred fifty five kilowatts is a big system and it's going to be washington state's largest publicly owned system which means that it which is part of the state owns all solar that's just one more island utility co op and basically what they've done is all these folks got together and decided that they wanted to be independent yes and so now all these folks got together created a private utility my electric and then you have hawaii electric and then you have the hawaii electric company which is the folks on the big island know that because they get those bills yeah yeah so i mean co op is another utility company so there's four three of them being the largest and the co op being for now we can duplicate that same community togetherness for the sake of the independence of their grid basically and they get to now all reap the rewards of this certainly i mean they're right in the middle of nowhere absolutely the middle of a lot of they were in the middle of nowhere but they got everything they needed needed now they can do it and there's been they've been talking a lot about that i think their biggest issues are the biggest issues is market for profit you can look at exxon profits you can look at all of these different companies profits and you're talking about billions of dollars in profit every year coming from the global i know i know meaning land so but they can make the same kind of they can make the same kind of money with the savings that they're going to make absolutely you know it starts with a community that desires to be independent and if you guys know how and how ions really enjoy their independence and soul if you take that same energy that you have toward your desire to be independence and instead of being frustrated and angry harness that channel  and put it into a it's a matter in which you can bring everybody together yourself and everybody together to educate yourselves and to work toward a cause together that's all koichi they did and  just need help you want to you either need help or you want to be involved volunteer training internships whatever may be the case we will give come online a discounts to anyone who wants to help poa eat or washington state and we will give from high school students so if you're young you're sixteen seventeen no worries no scared just come say hi we will teach you everything you need to know so we can teach energy but we can't teach the passion that goes behind wanting to commute to your community so my urge to people is if you feel that need to find some way to give back to your community whether you're native american or hawaiian or washingtonian home it starts with your own mindset and once you start to recognize your own waste as an individual you can just multiply that over how many people use a building ok so if it's not the building what could they do that can help ok so if you are a commercial and or if your home actually you just want to start to identify what am i using that i don't that's the first place to start but yes when it comes to actual measures of saving energy it does include turning things off and it also includes taking some of these measures out of your hands and automating them so that when you're running around in your daily life i don't have time to think about energy or my home being on my lights being on in my home or what have you that's a very good idea automate a simple timers there are forty dollars plug it in  turn on the way and off the lights at this time i can't even tell you how many light bulbs there are on during the day and if you could equate that to dollars it would make you crazy but you know here's here's an example ok silk is made out of natural the little wonderful little koons are made by these little silk and i resisted because of the collage of home would get a letter i actually invested in one so we have one and you know what we learned we could turn on the heat lot of people get afraid that if they start turning off their lights and turning down the heat they feel they start to get flashbacks of mom and dad during the depression telling them to turn off all the power we get out you know what i mean but we but it doesn't have to be that way there is technology now that i readily available that helps people to automate these things in their lives and you won't even miss it you know i mean i can hear and feel your passion if you are just really passionate about this and that this is something that the the whole nation can buy into and that everybody needs and learn about it and so but i just won this year before we move on i want to continue talking with you but i do need to share some of the spawn in this area a little one of them is we have got which with the chocolate truffle he's going to be around he's going to be going to he's and he'll now too with called ohana chocolates and he is going to be at the wine and chocolate fest in you know while fairgrounds and the mats and wine tasting festival look him up on