When you gas up your car some of the money you pay goes to kill our soldiers

Whenever you pay fill your car at a gas station some of your money is used by our enemies for guns and bullets to kill our soldiers. You would think that fact alone would be sufficient to drive a national energy policy toward renewable energy solutions like solar and wind. Our U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps are taking action in this regard. See links below. 

You would think that the extreme and unusual weather events all over our earth and the specter of an underwater Manhattan Island and submerged Florida would prompt the end of reliance on fossil fuels.

But none of this makes the slightest dent in our pattern of energy use.

What is driving the push of auto makers to electric vehicles, more and more use of solar, wind  wave power, geothermal and liquid fuels made from algae lies within the word we use to describe the fuel we convert into energy, fossil fuel. Fuel made by dinosaurs and the plants they ate millions of years ago.

Ok, I know that some GOP freaks think that dinosaurs walked our earth a few thousand years ago but that's something for Republican leaders like Glen Beck, Sarah Palin, Joe Barton and their psychoanalysts to deal with.

Anyway once the fossil fuel is burned it's gone forever.  We are well past the peak for fossil fuels. There might be enough coal to last for 100 years but it’s incredibly dirty, unhealthy, dangerous and increasingly expensive for our country. And the people like the Koch brothers who own coal are also incredibly dirty, unhealthy, dangerous and increasingly expensive for our country to deal with. There is some gas and oil locked up in shale but even though Dick  “Tin Man” Cheney and his Halliburton Company are getting filthy wealthy putting their toxic chemicals into the ground to blow out gas; we may be destroying our fresh water sources, forests and the American West in trying to use that gas.  

In any case it's very clear to every auto maker on earth that if people are going to continue to drive cars in the near and far future the energy for those cars will not be any form of fossil fuel because it will be increasing expensive and finally non-existent. And electricity made from renewable sources is going to be used to drive our cars, trains and eventually our aircraft and heat and cool our living and work environments.

Fossil fuels will not entirely disappear from our earth but they will be incredibly expensive to use. That is what is driving our switch to renewable energy. For the most part our politicians, our leaders, don’t consider the killing of our troops or violent storms, floods, droughts and submersion of lowlands to be a problem. Money is the only thing that talks and walks in our political system and ALL the bets are on renewable energy. 


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NAVAL ENERGY A STRAGETIC APPROACH

Message from the Secretary of the Navy

 December 18, 2010

The U.S.S. Prius

By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN