Energy Crisis self inflicted

“Mother F@$%, Bastard!!”

That is what I said when I saw the Exxon Regular gas prices for the first time while driving around in Sacramento, California. I was angry, shocked and wanted amazed that there were no riots. I glanced over at the docile faces in the cars and SUV to my left and right. “Are they seeing these prices,” I thought. Every seemed to have the same complacent cattle-like expressions of business as usual.

Then it dawned on me that my state, Colorado, and the rest of the country was next. Indeed, $4.00+ a gallon gas was already happening all over the country. Its ironic that everyone talks shit about California, but don’t notice that as the most populace state (over 33 Million+ about 10% of the US population), most mass social issues happen there first. Examples include: Environmental issues, rolling black outs, serious immigration issues, gay marriage ect. Those issues then follow California’s lead or are able to hedge challenges as they develop.

The energy crisis really make me upset. Mainly because I believe that there are solutions RIGHT now to this “problem”. In fact, I believe we had solution decades ago. Moreover, the writing was on the wall in 1973 when member of the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries (OAPEC) decided that they would no longer ship oil to nations that had supported Israel in its conflict with Syria and Egypt. These countries were: Parts of Europe, Japan and the U.S.). Europe and Japan were smart enough to adjust their dependence on foreign oil, but for some reason the Unites States did NOTHING but beg, borrow and threaten. We sent Henry Kissinger to beg and lie to the Saudi’s.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_oil_crisis

Months later Project Independence was born. It was the definition of “fucking pathetic”:

Project Independence was an initiative announced by U.S. President Richard Nixon on November 7, 1973, in reaction to the OPEC oil embargo and the resulting 1973 oil crisis. Recalling the Manhattan Project, the stated goal of Project Independence was to achieve energy self-sufficiency for the United States by 1980[1] through a national commitment to energy conservation and development of alternative sources of energy.[2] Nixon declared that American science, technology and industry could free America from dependence on imported oil. [3]

Some of the important initiatives to emerge from Project Independence included lowering highway speeds to 55 MPH, converting oil power plants to coal, completion of the Trans-Alaskan pipeline and diverting federal funds from highway construction to mass transit

They planed on reducing oil dependency by “lowering highway speeds to 55MPH”! That nor anything else they did got us off of foreign oil. With some of the greatest scientific minds in the world, the most daring innovative thinkers on EARTH “lowering highway speeds to 55MPH” is the best that we could do. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Independence

As the richest most powerful nation in the world, I find it hard to believe we are in this crisis by accident. I don’t know why this would be by design and I am skeptical of “conspiracy” to break the US economy, but a collusion of super rich global countries to make more money by suppressing REAL alternatives seems about right to me.

Who Killed the Electric Car?

When you look at the death of the electric car in California (where it started to happen first), its easy to see greed as a serious motivation behind keeping the status quo at all costs. Why would multi-billion dollar automotive companies, oil and gas companies allow their money tree to wither & die? Why would they support a new technology that might cut into their profits? Why would they take a chance on such a volatile market? How could they have known there would be this kind of crisis today?

Water 4 Fuel – Urban Legend or Epic Historical Tyranny

One legend you can see all over the web is water for fuel mythos. The story is that a brilliant man created a machine that run a car for miles and miles on nothing put water. Its seen by main stream science and engineering as a ridiculous myth that is believed only by those would have no understanding of basic scientific principals. Its one of those odd ball fringe fascinations that are immediately dismissed and categorized with Alien encounters and Big Foot sightings. But What if..? What if it were real? Imagine for a second that this technology has been around since the 70’s. Imagine that it could be put in almost any automobile engine to convert tap water into hydrogen.

Well there are a couple of people who have say that this is not only true but have working prototypes. Their names are Stan Meyer & Dennis Klein. How is this possible without being all over the national news?! Such a discovery would change the world. The oil industry would die out fast. Stan Meyer claimed that the Saudis and others attempted to bribe him to simply sit on the invention or allow him to purchase the device for about 1 billion dollars. He also claims to have been silenced by certain government agencies. He later poisoned. Is this story true? You be the judge. If it is true, humanity has suffered a great, great injustice. Such an invention could have taken us in a whole new direction of less war for resources, a weaker set of oil baron tyrants and war profiteers. Less poverty due to an invention that is powered off of the most abundant element in the known universe (hydrogen) and less famine and death world wide.

Instead, we must suffer at the pump as prices go up and up with no end in sight. And there is seemingly nothing we can do about it but work more to pay more on everything as the dollar is inflated away from its previous value causing us to work more for less and less and less. One must wonder, what is the end goal of a fiat monetary system and what is the meaning of life according to capitalism? To work? Is our life then measured by our networth? Is Fiat paper money’s market value more important that human life?

I question any system that puts an imaginary value over the worth on living breathing sentient souls. “To be” is an immeasurable worth that can NOT be captured by any monetary, political, religious, or philosophical system.

Why America Must Stay in Iraq

First off let me tell you I have never voted for ANY Bush past or present and I’m proud of that. Secondly, I did NOT agree with going to Iraq to search for fuckin’ WMDs or for OIL (operation Iraqi Liberation) or any other reason, particularly when we had allegedly been attacked by TERRORISTs not by Iraq, Iran, North Korea or any other member of the cartoonishly infamous “axis of evil”.

I do believe that there are terrorist who want to destroy America, but prior to America’s preemtive strike on Iraq they didn’t have the numbers, motives, power or news coverage that they do now. The war in Iraq has possibly made internation terrorism have a united cause.

I actually agree with 94′ Dick Cheney’s views on why it is a bad idea to take Iraq:

So why, then do I think we should stay? I see it as our responsibility to help the Iraqi people out of this chaos that was created by uprooting the structure they had in place. I am not an apologist for Saddam Hussein. I believe he was an evil man who violated the UN resolutions (a violation punishable by war, I might add). And though I think it was a VERY bad idea to unleash this “quagmire” that is now up to nearly half a trillion dollars (at a time when America itself faces a baby boomer social security disaster) we have an obligation to follow through. If we bail on the Iraqi people it will be worse than mere cowardice, it will dishonorable, heartless and above all, it will be betrayal. The same kind of betrayal that the U.S. exhibited in the Gulf War when we abandoned the Kurds and the resistance that rose up when we and many other nations stomped Saddam and got him out of Kuwait.

While I think we should stay in Iraq, I don’t buy into the AM radio, RUSH-Ditto-headed, “We have to win for OUR freedom” BULLSHIT! Its the height of arrogance to pin the successes of a stable Iraq in our hands for our own purpose when all the heavy lifting MUST be done by the Iraqi people. Yes, we will be will benefit by their stability but it is their country. We can help them attain stability, but ulimately success is in the hands of the Iraqis.

What annoys me about the Democrats and main stream liberals rhetoric is that they claim to want prosperity, health and love for everyone, but they want to bail out on the Iraqi people. I mean, yes it was wrong to go! Yes, the Bush administration sucks, but the fact is that we are there NOW and those people are suffering because of our actions.

Leaving Iraq now would be like a hit and run. We could call it “Sucker Punch” Diplomacy. It is sad that only the war mongers that flirt with a nuclear world war III (Guiliani) are the only ones who want to stay in Iraq and even they want to stay because, “We have to win for OUR freedom.”

I believe it is our moral and spiritual duty to stay in Iraq. Not for some BS religious reasons or devious political and strategic reason, but because there are people there (woman and children) who just want to live their lives.