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U.S. Democrats call for new energy-saving strategy
Posted on Saturday, October 08, 2005 @ 15:51:17 GMT by vlad
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08 Oct 2005 15:00:58 GMT /Source: Reuters
WASHINGTON, Oct 8 (Reuters) - Hurricane-driven oil prices showed it was
time for the U.S. Congress to adopt a new energy strategy requiring
stricter fuel efficiency standards for vehicles and offering consumer
tax credits for hybrid cars, Democratic lawmakers said on Saturday.
Rep. Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut, speaking for the Democratic party in
its weekly radio address, criticized a Republican bill to help U.S. oil
refineries that squeaked through the House by two votes on Friday.
That legislation "provides billions more in tax breaks to the oil
refining industry, rolling back environmental laws unrelated to the
nation's energy problems, but doing nothing to lower gas prices," she
said.
The bill offers abandoned military bases for refinery
construction sites, extends federal insurance to any refinery projects
that are delayed, and speeds up permits by giving the Energy Department
more authority over the process.
Read the whole article here: http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N0737376.htm
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Enslaved by Oil... (Score: 1)
by vlad on Saturday, October 08, 2005 @ 16:00:16 GMT
(User Info | Send a Message) http://www.zpenergy.com | The Conservative Voice
Enslaved by Oil and the Jewish Problem
October 08, 2005 12:00 AM EST
by Rachel Neuwirth
The world has become critically dependent on
fossil fuels. Prominent among those fuels is oil. This critical
dependency is placing the entire world at great risk in at least three
ways.
Having failed earlier to take remedial action on
energy independence we now find ourselves backed into a corner with few
options and running out of time to fix the problem. We are drifting
towards a global catastrophe because of long-standing government energy
policy. Advanced energy technologies that could have liberated us from
enslavement to fossil fuels, and to nuclear energy as well, have all
been suppressed for decades. The primary blame falls on the usual
suspects, namely the powerful global energy establishment plus their
influential friends in government and in the major media. Part of the
blame must also be assigned to the American Jewish establishment along
with the radical Jewish left. They had every opportunity to meet their
major moral obligation to investigate the suppression, to expose the
media blackout and become public whistleblowers - and they failed.
Understandably, some of these assertions may generate surprise and
skepticism. This article will briefly outline the basis for these
allegations.
Danger No. 1 - Large price increases in energy threaten the global economy:
The supply of oil and natural gas is experiencing difficulty in meeting
demand and that is driving up energy prices. Global oil production, now
at 83 million barrels per day, can barely meet rising demand -
especially from America, India and China. The easy oil located near the
surface has already been found and tapped. Finding new oil is becoming
more difficult and is also deeper and hence more expensive to extract.
“Petroleum geologists have known for 50 years that global oil
production would "peak "
[www.peakoil.org] and begin its inevitable decline within a decade of
the year 2000. Moreover, no renewable energy systems have the potential
to generate more than a fraction of the power now being generated by
fossil fuels. In short, the transition to declining energy availability
signals a transition in civilization
[www.dieoff.com] as we know it.” - The
path we are on is leading towards a global economic convulsion with
dire consequences for human society.
Danger No. 2 - Oil revenues help to fund terrorism: Our oil imports are
actually funding both sides in the war on terror. Regimes such as Iran,
Saudi Arabia, Nigeria, Sudan, Venezuela and others are profiting
greatly from high oil prices enabling them to fund terrorism, the
spread of weapons of mass destruction and the teaching of radical
Islamic doctrines.
Danger No. 3 - Global climate shift: During the past century the world
has consumed about a trillion barrels of oil along with huge amounts of
natural gas and coal. Burning these fossil fuels generates atmospheric
carbon dioxide, the major greenhouse gas. It is now at historic highs
and still rising in response to continued burning of fossil fuels.
Environmentalists warn that climate shift is causing global warming
along with floods and droughts plus storms of increasing frequencies
and destructive power. Rising ocean temperatures are said to greatly
intensify moderate hurricanes into becoming Hurricane Katrina’s.
Climate shift will also degrade growing conditions and endanger the
global food supply of 6.3 billion people. Even in a peaceful world the
ongoing climate shift alone would endanger civilization.
Alternatives to fossil fuels: Massive dependency on fossil fuels has
placed civilization in a dire predicament which is now becoming
painfully evident. Some claim the solution lies with an array of
familiar energy alternatives such as solar, wind, nuclear, hydrogen
plus conservation and efficiency. There are also geothermal, ocean
waves, hybrid cars, hydropower, biofuels, etc. One extensive study
[www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net] argues compellingly that, even in
combination, these alternatives fall far short of meeting global energy
needs and we have already run out time needed to fully implement even
these limited alternatives.
Two big energy ‘secrets’ that the public urgently needs to know:
The first ‘secret’ is the existence of advanced energy technologies
which could rapidly obsolete fossil fuels and nuclear power with clean,
cheap, safe energy, universally available. Many doubt their existence
by assuming, incorrectly, that if those technologies existed it would
be public knowledge. And many also assume, incorrectly, that inventors
are free to bring out advanced energy technologies and would be
universally applauded if they did.
The second ‘secret’ is the ongoing suppression of these advanced energy technologies.
(Note that allowing the limited alternatives to emerge is an
insignificant challenge to the giant global energy infrastructure, but
it pacifies the public into believing the illusion that there is no
suppression.) The truly advanced energy technologies burn no fuel,
produce no emissions, are totally safe and can produce unlimited
amounts of cheap energy under all conditions. They would make energy
available to all people and all nations just as are the sun and the
air. They would obsolete the entire global energy establishment,
including the nuclear power interests. The multi-trillion dollar
capital infrastructure of the energy establishment would become
worthless. All those whose power, wealth and influence derive from that
energy infrastructure would lose. Along with widespread energy
independence would come a large measure of economic and political
independence which would trigger a global revolution in power,
influence and wealth. Is it reasonable to expect that those possessing
such power would quietly relinquish all of it without resisting?
These far-reaching assertions can, understandably, generate skepticism
and doubt. Following are three web sites that can serve as an
introduction to both the technical and the non-technical issues which
need to be widely known.
1. Visit http://www.seaspower.com and click on “Strategic Overview”
2. visit http://www.free-energy.cc/background.html and click on “Technologies”
3. We should not assume that scientists have already discovered all of natures’ secrets.
“...The time has come for the Establishment scientists to wake up to
the possibility that we can draw upon energy in the space medium ...
Editor's Note: See Correa's U.S. Patents numbers 5,416,391 and
5,449,989.” - From http://www.padrak.com/ine/BLOWSNASA.html
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For the whole article goto: http://www.theconservativevoice.com/articles/article.html?id=8832
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Re: U.S. Democrats call for new energy-saving strategy (Score: 1)
by ElectroDynaCat on Saturday, October 08, 2005 @ 17:11:20 GMT
(User Info | Send a Message) | It was a nice gesture of the Congress to their Big Oil Campaign contributors, but believe it or not, the Oil industry does not want to operate at a capacity more than what they have now. Further supply will depress prices, and getting a lower price on a depleting resource is not a good way to make money.
The Oil Companies know they'll run out of feedstock within a decade, thats why they're not going to the hassel of building new refineries, they've been shutting them down to keep prices stable.
The Oil companies want to make as much money as they can while they can and invest that money in something else, solar cells or hydrogen like BP is doing right now. |
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Re: U.S. Democrats call for new energy-saving strategy (Score: 1)
by sparks35 on Sunday, October 09, 2005 @ 02:44:15 GMT
(User Info | Send a Message) | The W.Bush thing is something close to this...
Son of former US president...(Got Lucky with the Sperm thing.)
Gets to go to Yale...Joins the "Skull and Bone".
Learns the whole "get power, give power, to your buddies thing".
Teams up with guys like Carl Rove, political GURU.
Has is underlings press the Gay, Race, Abortion hot buttons.
Somehow gets elected President. by the narrowest of margins.
911 happens.
TIME TO MAKE A POWER MOVE.
His buddies make big money making weapons to destroy stuff.
His buddies make big money rebuilding stuff.
His buddies have ties to Big Oil.
GREAT TIME TO INVADE IRAQ...
Billions of dollars going to his buddies...
More money...more power....
Money loops back to the GOP...
Perfect "Skull and Bones" plan.
Gets elected again...against another, yet rogue, "Yale Skulls Member".
This enforces his position. Be "on board" or the accumulating power will squash you.
The Big Money is flowing. Power is centralizing around the "perfect plan".
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And yet...things are not going well...the people, THE PEOPLE WHO PUT HIM IN POWER...are slowly becoming aware of what is really happening.
The little guys...the expendable workers/employees/armys....
....the underprivileged people......(losers in the sperm contest).....those who did not go to Yale....and never were privileged enough...to join the club.....those who's fathers were not President....
TO BE CONTINUED
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