Where have you been since the oil Embargo in the early 70s,Horace> We mobilized and brought viable and proven energy technologies ready for turnkey by the late 70s to mid eighties, only to have the door closed by the gas pipeline companies, and the electric power companies that had a glut of newly constructed coal and nuclear plants.
Same song third verse in the White House Choir.. I ought to know, I lost my butt that mobilization. Fred > [Original Message] > From: Horace Heffner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <vortex-l@eskimo.com> > Date: 2/8/2006 6:42:24 PM > Subject: Re: Your Surrender has Been Ordered > > On Feb 8, 2006, at 12:43 PM, Jed Rothwell wrote: > > > These things are caused by stupidity, greed, bad management and -- > > in the face of terrorism -- energy policy that is tantamount to > > treason. (These policies have been endorsed by both parties and the > > last six presidents, but I still think they are close to treason.) > > Myriad technical solutions to these problems have been available > > all along, in plain sight. > > You certainly have a good point there. Moving forward requires a > substantial attitude change, the good old American "can do" > attitude. This can do attitude is the opposite of that demonstrated > by Exxon Mobil Senior Vice President Stuart McGill. A united > political position that we have to break our addiction to foreign oil > should go a long way toward the needed attitude change. A fully > united position is not there yet, but with Bush's State of the Union > address, the possibility of such a united front seems to be there for > the first time. If driving big gas guzzlers is clearly unpatriotic, > then most people won't do it. The rest can be handled by energy > taxes collected to build a new energy infrastructure. The entire > nation was mobilized in a few years to fight World War 2. It won't > take that kind of full mobilization effort to achieve energy > independence if we really get motivated and united.
