[Vision2020] Bush To Eliminate US Dependence On Oil By 4920

[Tbertruss at aol.com]

All:

Now that high gas prices appear to be with us for good, can those living as 
though there is no global energy crisis that cannot be easily solved, while 
they drive their under 20 MPG rigs with abandon, etc., stop emulating the 
Ostrich? 

It is a no-brainer that we should be using the energy from fossil fuels to 
help us establish the infrastructure and technology for non-fossil fuel energy 
sources that will be necessary to maintain any civilization resembling our 
current lifestyle for more than a generation or three.  Waiting till fossil fuel 
resourced energy skyrockets in cost will only make the transition to an energy 
economy mostly based on non-fossil fuel technology much much harder.

I am afraid we can eat our cake now and leave a few crumbs for future 
generations to fight over, and I mean "fight" quite cruelly and literally, or we save 
some of our cake to support an easier transition for future generations to 
make more cakes of a different flavor.  We most decidedly are not going to have 
our cake and eat it to!

Yes, you profit and growth hounds, it may mean less growth and profit in the 
short run.

However, interfering with the overriding first principles of the religion of 
profit and growth riles the faithful more than critiques of local churches!

Nuclear power may be the best means of transitioning away from a fossil fuel 
economy, but there is major opposition to this in the USA.

This first web link takes a hard look at a very possible future we may be 
facing very soon...

http://www.energybulletin.net/4856.html

>From the link above:

"The upshot of all this is that we are entering a historical period of 
potentially great instability, turbulence and hardship. Obviously, geopolitical 
maneuvering around the world's richest energy regions has already led to war and 
promises more international military conflict. Since the Middle East contains 
two-thirds of the world's remaining oil supplies, the U.S. has attempted 
desperately to stabilize the region by, in effect, opening a big police station in 
Iraq. The intent was not just to secure Iraq's oil but to modify and influence 
the behavior of neighboring states around the Persian Gulf, especially Iran 
and Saudi Arabia. The results have been far from entirely positive, and our 
future prospects in that part of the world are not something we can feel 
altogether confident about."

And this link below offers satire on the Bush administrations approach to 
these problems...

http://www.energybulletin.net/7822.html

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Ted Moffett

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