The EPA, and the cities it regulates, gave us another reminder this week of how badly we need The War Against Oil.
The agency wants to toughen its air pollution standards, which doctors say are causing death, but Congress is already busy undermining the current standards and cities don’t think they can meet them.
Eve if oil were $5/barrel, instead of $65/barrel, this problem would exist. And it would be getting worse.
The real bottom line is that the carbon energy cycle is unnatural, the atmosphere is no longer able to deal with it, and the only solution is a hydrogen energy cycle.
In order to create a hydrogen energy cycle we need to put our entire economy on a War Footing, searching for solutions to problems like the manufacturing cost of fuel cells and the efficiency of solar panels. We need to be making truly renewable sources of electricity our highest priority, and all our laws need to reflect the urgency of this situation.
Let’s review the reasons for this again:
- Our present energy policy is killing us.
- Our present energy policy is unsustainable.
- Our present energy policy has us in thrall to people who want to kill us.
Can this war be won? It will take a lifetime, but yes. It can. There is
enough solar energy out there to power 100 planets like ours. We don’t
have to just collect it on Earth
you know. There is immense energy, in the form of heat, buried just
under the crust — sometimes it pops like a pimple and reminds us of
this. The air and the water move as well, both are easily tapped.
All that is really missing is a sense of urgency. The fact that the bulleted facts don’t deliver this sense of urgency continually amazes me.
The carbon cycle unnatural? That’s ridiculous! You’re telling us that fire is unnatural? Also the current high oxygen atmosphere/oceans did not always exist. There was life, albeit primitive, prior to that. Massive atmosphere and climate change is hardly unnatural. Fuel cells and fusion are no more natural than combustion or fission — all these activities occur to some degree (without human intervention) in the natural world. Why undermine a worthwhile discussion with such silliness?
The carbon cycle unnatural? That’s ridiculous! You’re telling us that fire is unnatural? Also the current high oxygen atmosphere/oceans did not always exist. There was life, albeit primitive, prior to that. Massive atmosphere and climate change is hardly unnatural. Fuel cells and fusion are no more natural than combustion or fission — all these activities occur to some degree (without human intervention) in the natural world. Why undermine a worthwhile discussion with such silliness?