WHAT
YOU HAVE BEEN LED TO BELIEVE ABOUT OUR ABSOLUTE NEED FOR PETROLEUM IS A
LIE! We will always have energy requirements, but energy does not have to come from petroleum. We send vast amounts of our wealth overseas for oil. We pollute our environment by burning oil. We invest vast human and military resources to ensure our oil supply. Renewable alternatives exist! steps to take Our heavy reliance on foreign oil has resulted in armed conflict in many regions of the Earth. We have also perpetrated great harm upon the environment, the complex balance which supports our lives. We need to protect the environment which spawned human beings. We cannot grow our economy nor our population indefinitely. Growth of the human race cannot be controlled by law, it has to come from each one of us on this planet. However, basing our economic growth on renewable energy supplies can be controlled by federal incentives and policy changes, when the will of an informed people is brought to bear. Historically, we needed to rely on fossil fuels to foster our industrial development. We needed something easy to sustain our growth. While the oil industry was so important in the last 100 years, innovation in power production has not kept pace with the development of new technologies. Now it is time to seek real progress in the implementation of alternative power sources. Hubbert's Peak describes how the total quantity of oil on Earth is finite. Petroleum production will reach a peak, after which it will never surpass that maximum peak. Oil production will fall as the most economical reserves are exhausted. Oil prices will rise. If our economy is based on a non-renewable fuel source and the production falls, then our economy will decline. We have to adapt our economy to run on renewable energy. Burning oil adds carbon dioxide to the atmosphere. Carbon dioxide traps heat in the atmosphere. Atmospheric samples frozen in 2 miles of ice in Antarctica show us that carbon dioxide levels are currently at a 420,000 year peak! This span of time covers several Ice Ages and sea level fluctuations of at least +100 to -40 feet from current mean sea level. [See article #1] The Sun provides more energy to the Earth each day than our current population can use in many years. Plant life, over the history of our planet, has evolved as the most efficient solar energy collector possible. We now have the technology to harvest the abundant energy stored in agricultural products, supplying our cities with needed energy while reducing toxic by-products and employing American farmers. We can employ our skilled labor with the task of converting our oil refining infrastructure to refine an agricultural crop. Corn
as well as a multitude of agricultural products, even wastes such as
corn
husks, wheat and rice chaff and part of municipal solid waste can be
converted
to a raw fuel source from which liquid hydrogen fuel could be derived.
President George W. Bush said in a November 2001 address to the
Farmers
Journal Corporation Convention that renewable fuels, such as ethanol,
can
improve homeland security in a solid domestic national energy plan.
"These
fuels are made right here in America, so they can't be threatened by
any
foreign power," he said. He went on to say that "Ethanol and
biofuels
are fuels for the future of this country." Bringing
about an end to our reliance on foreign oil would result in many
It
may take some time, but we can wean ourselves from this non-renewable,
costly resource. Recognizing that we cannot stop our oil
consumption
overnight, domestic oil production could continue in the short term.
However,
it needs to be conducted with the best possible safeguards against harm
to our environment. As we turn to the task of restructuring our fuel
use,
government mandated change will have to occur. Oil companies have
invested a lot of capital, but with retrofitting, their equipment would
not go to waste. Likewise, the oil industry workforce need not
face
unemployment. The conversion of oil refineries to processing
plants
for agriculture based fuel would require capital investment, but would
also stimulate the economy by employing skilled We have vast human resource potential, and with a nationwide commitment to converting to alternative energy sources, a nearly limitless potential to succeed. Supporting articles:
MoveOn.org
has been
very successful in organizing activism through the use of the internet.
Let your voice be heard! Economies for Life by David C. Korten Just Say No To Oil: A Ten Year Plan to End the War on Terrorism By Lawrence Hagerty, November 13, 2001 Question everything you have been told at TRUTH-NOW.Hubbert's Peak describes how the total quantity of oil on Earth is finite. Petroleum production will reach a peak, after which it will never surpass that maximum peak. (U.S. oil production has already passed its peak.) Oil production will fall as the most economical reserves are exhausted. Oil prices will rise. If our economy is based on a non-renewable fuel source and the production falls, then our economy will decline. We have to adapt our economy to run on renewable energy. For Our Information: U.S. Oil According to the Energy Department's Energy Information Administration: The United States had 22.4 billion barrels of proved oil reserves as of 1 January 2002. During 2002, the United States is estimated to be producing around 8.2 million barrels per day, among the lowest in 50 years. In 2000, there were 534,000 producing oil wells in the United States. The United States is consuming about 19.7 million barrels per day of oil in 2002; nearly half is motor gasoline. The United States imported 11.2 million barrels per day in the first 9 months of 2002, around 57% of total U.S. oil demand. As of 12 November 2002, the Strategic Petroleum Reserve contained around 590 million barrels of oil. That quantity is enough oil for the U.S. for around 30 days at current levels of consumption. Even with rationing the reserve is only good for months and would be mostly used by the military anyway.
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Here is my personal crisis: I AM one of the ugly polluters on Earth. I drive my car, I use fossil fuels, I am part of the problem. My wife and I both work hard, we earn good money, but we can’t seem to get out of the cycle. We are still part of the problem. What am I hopeful for? The bright bright spirits of our children which, if kept intact, will fill the World with light and burn away the rot of the past. What concerns me the most? The death throes of the power structure of the 4th Sun. Those corporate dinosaurs who see profit as their god and an economic system which demands constant growth might still spell doom for our environment. You know the place, the only place we have, to live.more Lulled to Sleep. For less than 100 years, the soothing, warm hum of a car has been amongst many people’s first sensations, along with mom and dad on the way home from the hospital. more Hubbert's Peak describes how the total quantity of oil on Earth is finite. Petroleum production will reach a peak, after which it will never surpass that maximum peak. (U.S. oil production has already passed its peak.) Oil production will fall as the most economical reserves are exhausted. Oil prices will rise. If our economy is based on a non-renewable fuel source and the production falls, then our economy will decline. We have to adapt our economy to run on renewable energy. For Our Information: U.S. Oil According to the Energy Department's Energy Information Administration: The United States had 22.4 billion barrels of proved oil reserves as of 1 January 2002. During 2002, the United States is estimated to be producing around 8.2 million barrels per day, among the lowest in 50 years. In 2000, there were 534,000 producing oil wells in the United States. The United States is consuming about 19.7 million barrels per day of oil in 2002; nearly half is motor gasoline. The United States imported 11.2 million barrels per day in the first 9 months of 2002, around 57% of total U.S. oil demand. As of 12 November 2002, the Strategic Petroleum Reserve contained around 590 million barrels of oil. That quantity is enough oil for the U.S. for around 30 days at current levels of consumption. Even with rationing the reserve is only good for months and would be mostly used by the military anyway. Independence from Petroleum! We will always have energy requirements, but our energy does not have to come from petroleum. We send vast amounts of our wealth overseas for oil. We pollute our environment by burning oil. We invest vast human and military resources to ensure our oil supply. Viable, renewable alternatives are available now! more steps to take A community project: Renewable Black Rock City Web Links that Lead Us Ahead:
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