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The New Energy Cold War: The Warsaw-Tehran Connection
Ominous for the Globe but Good News for Oil Bulls
Aug 31 02:38 PM
Obama wants to be elected. (So does McCain). I want to solve the problem.
Considering much of the flux flow between free enterprise, unfree enterprise, natural and contrived disaster, who's on the take, corporate greed and personal greed, I am convinced that we need to create our own crisis to get off oil and coal and the natural resources we BURN before we find ourselves in another crisis without a paddle - not unlike the '73 embargo and the '78-79 gas crunch (we know who caused eash so we know who the enemy is - an as you know we, the American consumer and American Business, are not exempt).
So let's do the unthinkable - the action and the results are not new - other nations have done it - it's time we did it. Put a $5 BURN TAX on each gallon of gasoline and diesel, equivalnet mcf of NG, ton of coal, lb or gal of propane etc., - A BURN TAX - where ever; from wherever: import or domestic. That tax (God help us because it goes to DC) is to be used only for installing infrastructure like electric railroads, electrified inter/intrastate hiway ferries, electric grid improvements and expansion (beefing up) to handle 20 Quads/yr, INCLUDING SOLAR AND WIND HOOKUPS.
In addition, the electrified railroads, electrified hiways and power grid will have an attached lesser TOLL TAX for prime-movers (the railroads, the ferries, the utilities) and a CREDIT REBATE (reduced fee) for baseline users (John Q Public and businesses).
Doing this:
1) the Govt provides the means for the common good which is it's role,
2) making the profiting entrapanuers pay to play (ie., the capitalistic risktakers placing their bets), and
3) forcing thru taxation (punishment) and relief (rewards) the behavior change desired where,
4) additional capitalistic risktakers will develop the additional means to make it all happen (the R&D, investment, and providing of solar, wind, electric vehicles, hybrids, etc., etc, whatever the need).
5) AND THE GOVERNMENT HAS TO DO WHAT IT HAS ALWAYS DONE, PUT A TAX ON IT'S PEOPLE AND NEVER REMOVE IT.
AS THE BEHAVIOR CHANGES THE PUNISHING TAX NATRUALLY EVAPORATES (NO MORE BURN; NO MORE TAX).
AND THE NEW ECONOMY IS ESTABLISHED FOR THE NEW DESIRED BEHAVIOR WITH BURDEN AND REWARD IN PLACE, BOTH PAYING FOR USE; AND KNOWING IT, SATISFIED.
Ominous for the Globe but Good News for Oil Bulls
How can dormant (no current production) dryland cause or add to any food shortage??
What Happened to Peak Oil?
What Happened to Peak Oil?
CONSIDER::
Aug 31 02:38 PM
Obama wants to be elected. (So does McCain.) I want to solve the problem.
Considering much of the flux flow between free enterprise, unfree enterprise, natural and contrived disaster, who's on the take, corporate greed and personal greed, I am convinced that we need to create our own crisis to get off oil and coal and the natural resources we BURN before we find ourselves in another crisis without a paddle - not unlike the '73 embargo and the '78-79 gas crunch (we know who caused eash so we know who the enemy is - an as you know we, the American consumer and American Business, are not exempt).
So let's do the unthinkable - the action and the results are not new - other nations have done it - it's time we did it. Put a $5 BURN TAX on each gallon of gasoline and diesel, equivalnet mcf of NG, ton of coal, lb or gal of propane etc., - A BURN TAX - where ever; from wherever: import or domestic. That tax (God help us because it goes to DC) is to be used only for installing infrastructure like electric railroads, electrified inter/intrastate hiway ferries, electric grid improvements and expansion (beefing up) to handle 20 Quads/yr, INCLUDING SOLAR AND WIND HOOKUPS.
In addition, the electrified railroads, electrified hiways and power grid will have an attached lesser TOLL TAX for prime-movers (the railroads, the ferries, the utilities) and a CREDIT REBATE (reduced fee) for baseline users (John Q Public and businesses).
Doing this:
1) the Govt provides the means for the common good which is it's role,
2) making the profiting entrapanuers pay to play (ie., the capitalistic risktakers placing their bets), and
3) forcing thru taxation (punishment) and relief (rewards) the behavior change desired where,
4) additional capitalistic risktakers will develop the additional means to make it all happen (the R&D, investment, and providing of solar, wind, electric vehicles, hybrids, etc., etc, whatever the need).
5) AND THE GOVERNMENT HAS TO DO WHAT IT HAS ALWAYS DONE, PUT A TAX ON IT'S PEOPLE AND NEVER REMOVE IT.
AS THE BEHAVIOR CHANGES THE PUNISHING TAX NATRUALLY EVAPORATES (NO MORE BURN; NO MORE TAX).
AND THE NEW ECONOMY IS ESTABLISHED FOR THE NEW DESIRED BEHAVIOR WITH BURDEN AND REWARD IN PLACE, BOTH PAYING FOR USE; AND NOT KNOWING IT, AND SATISFIED.
Obama's Green Promise
Considering much of the flux flow between free enterprise, unfree enterprise, natural and contrived disaster, who's on the take, corporate greed and personal greed, I am convinced that we need to create our own crisis to get off oil and coal and the natural resources we BURN before we find ourselves in another crisis without a paddle - not unlike the '73 embargo and the '78-79 gas crunch (we know who caused eash so we know who the enemy is - an as you know we, the American consumer and American Business, are not exempt).
So let's do the unthinkable - the action and the results are not new - other nations have done it - it's time we did it. Put a $5 BURN TAX on each gallon of gasoline and diesel, equivalnet mcf of NG, ton of coal, lb or gal of propane etc., - A BURN TAX - where ever; from wherever: import or domestic. That tax (God help us because it goes to DC) is to be used only for installing infrastructure like electric railroads, electrified inter/intrastate hiway ferries, electric grid improvements and expansion (beefing up) to handle 20 Quads/yr, INCLUDING SOLAR AND WIND HOOKUPS.
In addition, the electrified railroads, electrified hiways and power grid will have an attached lesser TOLL TAX for prime-movers (the railroads, the ferries, the utilities) and a CREDIT REBATE (reduced fee) for baseline users (John Q Public and businesses).
Doing this:
1) the Govt provides the means for the common good which is it's role,
2) making the profiting entrapanuers pay to play (ie., the capitalistic risktakers placing their bets), and
3) forcing thru taxation (punishment) and relief (rewards) the behavior change desired where,
4) additional capitalistic risktakers will develop the additional means to make it all happen (the R&D, investment, and providing of solar, wind, electric vehicles, hybrids, etc., etc, whatever the need).
5) AND THE GOVERNMENT HAS TO DO WHAT IT HAS ALWAYS DONE, PUT A TAX ON IT'S PEOPLE AND NEVER REMOVE IT.
AS THE BEHAVIOR CHANGES THE PUNISHING TAX NATRUALLY EVAPORATES (NO MORE BURN; NO MORE TAX).
AND THE NEW ECONOMY IS ESTABLISHED FOR THE NEW DESIRED BEHAVIOR WITH BURDEN AND REWARD IN PLACE, BOTH PAYING FOR USE; AND NOT KNOWING IT, AND SATISFIED.
Will Brazil Really Nationalize Oil?
When we address that, we will no longer need to worry about it.
And drill, drill, drill, is not the solution to be addressed!
The New Energy Cold War: The Warsaw-Tehran Connection
pachanguero - please reread stonebraker's response - think - then think some more.
Ominous for the Globe but Good News for Oil Bulls
Ominous for the Globe but Good News for Oil Bulls
Ominous for the Globe but Good News for Oil Bulls
You foget (or may not know) what we can do when we want to build a nuc bomb and go to the moon. LEADERSHIP is what we need.
All the millions of acres US farmland in CRP (for which we pay farmers $800,000,000 a year to do NOTHING) can be worked to produce a crop in one season to feed biofuel plants (feedstock: switchgrass, canolo, etc., not corn except for husks) which can be built in < 1 yr, adjacent to many existing railroad sidings.
Waste heat recovery using solid state direct conversion to electricy is within a couple years; which will result in replacing internal combustion engines with a no-moving-parts injected biofuel buner encapsulated with the heat recovery devices which directly drive a 20-40 hp electric motors capable of low speed torques of 80-200 hp motors and do 0-60 mph in 4 seconds (like the Tesla), and be fed by the 20+ gallon biofuel GRASS TANK, refillable at 1/3 of the existing service stations because they will need to be refilled 1/3 as often because we are using 90% of the energy in the biofuel (come on XON and CONOCO, etc., get rid of the outlets now because we're only going to need 30% of them within 10 years).
As for all the diesel-electri trains: make them 100% electric (did I mention Switzerland yet?).
And for all the diesel trucks, make them biofuel trucks and haul their cargo on existing electrified rails or electrify the inter/intrastates and add elecrified cargo/hybrid/people ferries.
SIMPLE. SWEET. AND LEADERSHIP.
Ominous for the Globe but Good News for Oil Bulls
Ominous for the Globe but Good News for Oil Bulls
That's the only error in everything I said above. And all else is truth.
Oh yes, I forgot to mention that hooking up all the distributed solar and wind farm stuff is a breeze. There's an existing transmission line within 25-50 miles of any such farm we establish. And if there isn't, put one in. Just kick the rattle snakes out of the way, temporarily.
Ominous for the Globe but Good News for Oil Bulls
Goodbye 21 mb/d crude. Goodbye over 50 Quads/yr of coal, oil, gas, gasoline (and all the shale, tar, liquifaction, gasification, etc.) AND COME ON 5 QUADS OF SOLAR, WIND POWER GENERATION AND 5 QUADS EXTRA OF THE SAME TO SOLVE THE 5 QUADS USEFUL TRANSPORTATION NEEDS.
SIMPLE. SWEET.
GUTS AND MONEY. CLONE BOONE.
Ominous for the Globe but Good News for Oil Bulls
3500 untilities in the US; that's 70 per state on the average (which we understand is the average and not necessarily where the people are - however, the hydro plants are on rivers, 100 nucs are scattered about in most states, coal is by the coal unless it's not, etc). All the electricity is transmitted across millions of acres of empty space - even if on 3 grids as you say. But we know how to and can fix all that, plus beef it up and increase it 50%; easier than exploring, drilling, extracting, etc.So it shouldn't be a scare tactic.
As for the 21 mb/d crude, most of which we burn. We can reduce that to 2-3 mb/d by switching power generation to solar, wind, nuc and hydro power (no coal, no oil, no nat gas) and beef up the grid to handle 18 Quads/yr from the existing 12 Quads/yr: 50% upgrade. (Remember we throw away 70% of the energy in burning coal, nat gas, and oil in power generation; we consume ~30 Quads of coal, oil, nat gas to generate about 7 Quads of electricity - the other 5 Quads come from Nuc and Hydro; so we need 5 Quads of solar, wind, nuc to make up for ALL the coal and ng in power generation). Then, on the transportation side, we burn 40 Quads/yr of crude to produce 5 Quads of useful energy and about 5 Quads of products - throwing away 30 Quads of energy. So those 5 Quads of