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Energy, Ending Oil Wars, & Boosting the Dollar 10/14/07
Hey girl, unless USA gets some new ENERGY sources you’ll be cold this winter, your car will be way more costly or not even run, jobs will be scarcer yet, America will go deeper in debt to OPEC countries, we’ll lose even more of our Sovereignty and become even more dependant, the next oil war will be against Iran and will last for 30 years, and each “emergency” along the way will cost you more civil liberties, and finally your Rights! 4 years ago, Howard Dean started out with a flash bang, but he failed to present an alternative and renewable energy strategy that would push aside the Bush-Cheney-Rice “Oilygarchy”. Kerry always had some front row kids holding signs for the TV cameras reading “HYDROGEN FUEL”. Kerry got the nomination. Then he did nothing about hydrogen or any of the other alternative and renewable fuels. The “Oilygarchy” at least had a plan to get more oil, as well as steal the election! Here’s a letter from John Fitzhugh Millar, Harvard Class of 1966, that was published in HARVARD MAGAZINE, October 2007, on page 6.
Of course, this oversimplifies all the problems, and solutions. There’s more to budget and trade deficits, but a sane and practical alternative and renewable energy policy — even a national crash program — would go far to balance the budget, and cut oil imports. There’s more to terrorism’s roots than just our American addiction to Middle Eastern Oil. But Radical Islam can be more easily dealt with by diplomacy when we have other sources of energy, we keep our money, and they can drink their oil or pave over their deserts with it and make parking lots. There’s more to the question of “Global Warming” than human burning of ancient fossil fuels and other carbon-releasing and greenhouse gas activities. Solar flares and solar evolution may even explain the present warming cycle. But energy conservation, and changing to pyrolysis of plant materials for bio-fuels, gathering passive and active solar rays, burning water as fuel in vehicles, planting more trees to gather and store carbon dioxide and exude more oxygen, further development of wind and tidal rise and fall electrical generation — all these together might make a huge dent in oil imports! Pyrolysis is simply obtaining overnight oil and coal from plant materials. Nature takes millions of years worth of heat and pressure in sedimentary layers. Technologically, humans can do this in a few hours! Burning water as fuel is simply putting water in your tank and hydrolyzing it into hydrogen which most cars can burn as well as gasoline, and oxygen, which many drivers need a lot more of. The Garretts did it and obtained a patent for their hydrogen carburetor in 1935! I have their patent application with 4 drawings posted on my website. Developing hydrogen simply means going to the Energy Conversion Devices Company website and reading what they already do, with retired GM CEO Stemple on their Board. Its an American company, in Michigan, their inventors are Americans, and their technologies are “made in the USA”. Growing plants for pyrolysis is simply taking CRP lands (we pay farmers and ranchers to not grow anything on Conservation Reserve Program lands, which is a form of insanity given today’s world) and encouraging high forage crops be grown instead of nothing of economic value. Industrial Hemp may be the best crop because it can produce up to 40 tons per acre per year, is no more smokable than corn silk, can be used for paper-making, and blue jeans, can be pressed for direct production of bio-diesel, is fermentable for distillation of ethanol or methanol, and finally is feedable to livestock as a high protein feed as a last resort by-product. The Democrats will back Brian Schweitzer’s plan to mine and burn more coal, liquefy some of it, and all that does is add to the carbon dioxide load in Earth's atmosphere. The Republicans will follow Bush-Cheney with more “Oilygarchy”. I think the door is wide open for Dr. Ron Paul to propose novel, new, combo alternative and renewable technologies, on a free enterprise, private sector, competitive bid basis. All government need do is get out of the way, remove oil from its present exclusive near-monopoly preferential position, open up energy to competition for winning technologies, and let supply and demand in the market place determine prices. |
With competition, oil may suddenly be found in “new” places and energy prices may plummet, partly to drive the new alternative and renewable technologies into failure and bankruptcy, as was done in the 1970’s after Earth Day brought forth so many solar and hydrogen developments. If oil remains costly, American companies like GE and John Deere will manufacture more windmills and develop more wind farms. More Americans will buy solar photovoltaic roofing shingles. More wells will be converted to sun power off solar tracking PV panels and the windmill power technologies we’ve known and used on ranches since the 1920’s. And Industrial Hemp will be grown for pyrolysis on thousands of acres now growing weeds. Incidentally, Montana and nine other states have legislation on the books permitting growing of Industrial Hemp by qualified growers. However, the turd blossoms in DC working for DEA say they have controlling jurisdiction. Horse feathers! I want a new President who will tell them what their limited jurisdiction really is. And propose new energy development “made in the USA”. And lead the way with domestic alternative and renewable energy policy which also solves a huge foreign policy problem, and lessens both the budget and trade deficits, and eliminates the balance of payments red ink. Does the Ron Paul for President in 2008 group listen to suggestions from the grassroots? Over to you, “Dagny”! Respectfully yours, from TonyO (aka Deerefly and “Hank R.”) References
Ron Paul in Missoula, Monday 4/21/08
From: TonyO Jo, it was way better! Dr. Ron Paul is THE Real Deal! He flew into MSO alone on the 3:15 Northwest arrival. No entourage. Alone! About 30 of us sign-waving nuts were there with cameras, etc. He signed books at the UC Book Store for almost 2 hours (“The Revolution: A Manifesto”, his newest) including any older ones folks brought like “Foreign Policy”, and someone even had him sign Jesse Ventura’s new book, “Don’t Start The Revolution Without Me”. He poked his head through the UC Ballroom stage curtain promptly at 7:30 and waved to a packed standing room only and very noisy crowd (the Missoulian reported 1,000 which is the Fire Marshall’s limit) and then had David Hart, his only paid man in Montana, announce that the coming 20 minute delay would be due to a press conference backstage (none of which was reported in the papers that I could see, later on. My guess is the editors spiked all that!). And then he spoke out for 40 minutes without notes or teleprompter on foreign policy, pork and waste, downsizing DC, what’s ruining the dollar and what to do about that, why radical Islam reacts to the US as they have, and what to do about that too. And then he answered questions, which would have lasted all night had David let him stay on stage at the mike. Instead he came down into the front of the crowd and signed more books, papers, anything folks asked him to, including a lot of T shirts, some very original! Any one who wanted to shake hands, have a friend snap pix, or just ask questions did so, and he stayed with folks until the last person shook his hand and said, “Thank you” (that was me, because I’d agreed to help our RonPaulMeetup guys take down the huge signs and stash any bumper stickers or slimjims that were left — nothing was left but a box of metal yard sign stakes). And then David took him back out to the airport to catch the “RedEye” back to PA for Tuesday’s primary, where he got almost 17% of the vote even though he made only 4 appearances there in April. That made front page of Tuesday’s Missoulian with 2 pix and you can read it at www.missoulian.com — going to 4/22/08 news (i.e. Ron Paul articles: primary & secondary). Phyllis and Danielle stayed with Polly so I could do this, and I was home by midnight. I recorded most of that day using my new Panasonic 32X optical zoom with optical image stabilizer (for old geezers) camcorder on mini disks, as did Matt Beard from MCAT, and the best of both will be put together for a newsreel hour on broadcast and cable, and a 6 minute version will go up on YouTube shortly, so I’ll send you a link when that happens. — TonyO
The 100 Year Secret, Perpetual Cheap Green Energy Persist reading down this “eye and mindstraining” technicolor stuff and you’ll find the history of the fuel cell, commercially using hydrogen from water, from Bacon through the GE PEM, P & W, and the now-feasible and competitive uses. Great potential with oil at $140/barrel! Even if huge new oil reserves were found, drilled, and brought into the pipeline in N. America, there’s not enough refinery capacity here to utilize it. No new refinery has been built in the USA since 1976, and the NIMBY syndrome will probably prevent building more by hamstringing construction with court cases for 10 years. High gas and diesel prices are here to stay — new energy technologies are now competitive! • Daily Paul, My experience with HHO Gas. Note the comments! The Patriots website presents an excellent platform for America. |
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