The whole struggle over declining global oil resources seems silly and futile when you consider that in five days time more recoverable energy reaches the earth from the sun than can be found in all the oil fields in the Middle East. (about 85 trillion kilowatts, THE COMING AGE OF SOLAR ENERGY, by D.S. Halacy). Big oil does not own the sun and wants to keep us dependent on fossil fuels for as long as possible. The Bush Administration has reduced the funding for solar energy research and development and hopes that coal, shale oil, natural gas and more nuclear power will take care of our energy needs after the oil runs out, but this would be environmentally disastrous. Oil, coal and natural gas are only the fossilized remains of solar energy from millions of years ago. Instead of grubbing around in the dirt and fighting wars for these remains we should be going dirctly to the source. Then there is wind energy, geothermal, greater energy efficiency and conservation, ZPG, (zero population growth) and more trains and mass transit, all of which have been ignored by the oil drenched Bush Administration. If we do not begin to make these transitions very soon we are finished as a species. The earth will die and we will perish along with it, or return to the stone age in a single generation. We must get rid of of the stranglehold big oil has on us. along with the politicians who are in its pocket. The alternative is the destruction of the earth and universal extiction. C.B. Edelman, USA
The whole struggle over declining global oil resources seems silly and futile when you consider that in five days time more recoverable energy reaches the earth from the sun than can be found in all the oil fields in the Middle East. (about 85 trillion kilowatts, THE COMING AGE OF SOLAR ENERGY, by D.S. Halacy). Big oil does not own the sun and wants to keep us dependent on fossil fuels for as long as possible. The Bush Administration has reduced the funding for solar energy research and development and hopes that coal, shale oil, natural gas and more nuclear power will take care of our energy needs after the oil runs out, but this would be environmentally disastrous. Oil, coal and natural gas are only the fossilized remains of solar energy from millions of years ago. Instead of grubbing around in the dirt and fighting wars for these remains we should be going dirctly to the source. Then there is wind energy, geothermal, greater energy efficiency and conservation, ZPG, (zero population growth) and more trains and mass transit, all of which have been ignored by the oil drenched Bush Administration. If we do not begin to make these transitions very soon we are finished as a species. The earth will die and we will perish along with it, or return to the stone age in a single generation. We must get rid of of the stranglehold big oil has on us. along with the politicians who are in its pocket. The alternative is the destruction of the earth and universal extiction. C.B. Edelman, USA