Wednesday, May 4, 2005

Intelligent Speakers Support The OIL Industry.

Vijay Vaitheeswaran a Global Environment and Energy Correspondent explained how Iraq only supplies 2million barrels of oil a day while the Saudis supply 10 million a day trying to say the reason we are in Iraq isn't about oil.  He supports his claim by reminding us how the Iraqi people destroyed and continue to destroy their own oil pipelines wherever the American troops show presence.  He also reminds us how shabby the pipes were prior to the war due to Saddam's negligence.

Well well well.  These college educated specialists like Vaitheeswaran want all us little people to think this is where the lame argument begins and ends, but they are a little too trusting of their assertions.

The wars feed off these fuel machines.  Even if America were to rely on methane, hydrogen, cooking oils or anything else, fact is, our war machines overseas must rely on what is available there to get our mighty military over the terrain to where they ultimately desire to occupy. So let them deplete the oil everywhere they go.

Here in America perhaps the businesses can begin to operate on LNG and public transportation on CNG controlled by State run, not private owned entities.  Much of what we really are doing overseas is because we really want the Natural Gas in various regions.  Still, we need their traditional oil reserves to fuel our war machines.  Keep that in mind.

So while the government businesses and large corporations will rely on resources we have to rape from the land here and the land of others citing the world trade agreements for security of said resources, I propose we Americans run our transportation off of electricity and hydrogen and our homes off a safe type of "fuel exchange" much as trees do.  Let us open the Edison archives and rework the patent he purchased right after our government killed it.

Now the Economist would have you believe Russia isn't a threat to oil supplies but he( Vijay the correspondent) fails to mention that Putin claimed the largest exporter of oil and jailed the private owner on trumped up charges then auctioned off all his assets.  Let me remind you that in September of 2003 Russia joined with Saudi Arabia (a saint in the Economist eyes) marrying their companies to form the world's largest oil exporter. 

In all fairness to Vijay he is more motivated to get our voices out on the matter of environmentally safe fuels and resources.  His arguments to do this take too long and are somewhat leading towards a challenge.  The truth is, we need Iraqi resources to get us in better position to move towards Gorgan where the natural gas can be easily accessed.  We still have to displace several thousand Sunni to do this.  And yes, I whole heartedly agree with Vijay.  We need to develop alternative sources to fuel our consumption and We The People are a can do people.  This we can make happen.  What do you say folks?  Are we willing to take the responsibility of raping one country after another just so we can turn on our lights, drive our cars and run our kidney machines? Wouldn't it be a better choice to preserve the environment for future generations, promote wellness in our country then share the knowlege with other countries so they too can enjoy healthier living? 

The only wars that would be fought would be with anti-pluralists and there would be no doubt about the fanatisism of those starting such wars.  Then a spade wouldn't smell like a rose and golfers running corporations wouldn't be saving our forrests by cutting down our trees.  Just imagine.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

This piece is well thought out.
The practicality of oil is far more complex than just the Military industrial complex.
Oil and the securing of it's free flow touch parts of our life we would not associate with demand of oil.
Maybe there are a few of us , but not many
Trees could be harvested less with the intoduction of hemp.  It is a much quicker harvest as it grows dramatically faster than trees.  It can produce many things oile now has a distribution to in marketing.
The point is that by seeing oil for what is is, a national security concern.  Until we develop hydrogen and other alternative power sources we will be yoked by a need for oil.  

Many folks will say oil can't be depleted.  There is no logic to such an arguement.
Many folks do not want war over oil, yet that really is the only logical explanation for national security, and economic supremacy.
If we can change the demand for oil by innovations in technology we will have aspired to our collective greatness as American.  The world will follow as they have with an American ingenuity.  We are faced by a need to reinvest is many capital expenditures, our infrastructure crumbles, while our urban crawl expands to rurual America.  If there ever was a time to rethink our needs with a more
sufficient understanding we would all realize, Oil is far more expensive than what we pay at the pump.
Marty