We need a change...NOW!

[SHRED]

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Looks like we better start utilizing solar, wind, hybrid-biodiesel/biomass fuels, and hydrogen.

http://www.biodieselamerica.org/
http://www.hemp4fuel.com/nontesters/hemp4fuel/link.html

We needed and still need something like Kennedy's "Project Apollo" but instead of the moon in 10 years it's energy independence as the goal.

It should have been undertaken while the President had the will of the country just following 9/11. He could have explained how oil money sponsors terrorism and how our dependence, on petroleum, involves us meddling in the affairs of middle eastern countries via the multinational petroleum industry, CIA, and the military which also fuels terrorism (well he won't say that but you get my point).


We need to fight smarter not harder.
Let our farmers grow fuel, let's utilize green algae lakes as a biodiesel source, let's spur new cottage industries centered around industrial hemp, let's take advantage of solar, wind, and hydrogen.
We can become more prosperous, better jobs, and less foreign dependence.
I look at these ideas as the most patriotic action(s) I can think of.
We need to take care of us...for a change!


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Here is a prime example of how waving a BIG stick is not going to cut it unless we want extreme financial and physical damage by taking on China.

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China Rushes to Complete $100B Deal With Iran

SHANGHAI, Feb. 17 -- China is hastening to complete a deal worth as much as $100 billion that would allow a Chinese state-owned energy firm to take a leading role in developing a vast oil field in Iran, complicating the Bush administration's efforts to isolate the Middle Eastern nation and roll back its nuclear development plans, according to published reports.

The completion of the agreement would advance China's global quest for new stocks of energy. It could also undermine U.S. and European initiatives to halt Tehran's nuclear plans, possibly generating friction in Beijing's relations with outside powers.

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http://www.theinsider.org/news/article.asp?id=1868

[long_green]

1. Your last link is good news

anything that makes us less likely to go to war is good news. Who knows it may the thing that forces us to use greener fuels.

[panader0]

2. I'm with you Shred!

What's up with the plasma thing I readon DU yesterday? That sounded like a great source of energy but one that was being squashed by forces on high.

[SHRED]

3. Didn't hear it about that

Algae looks oh so promising however.

[postulater]

4. But, But, But

If we were energy independent, how would the UAE get enough of our money to buy our ports from us?

[SHRED]

5. True dat....