U.S. vs China in Ugly Clean-Energy Race

The Oil Industry’s Monopoly on Transportation

Once again, high gas prices are draining our wallets and making us crazy.

What to do?

We’ve drilled, baby, we’ve drilled. We’re now drilling more in this country than we have in nearly a decade.

We’ve given tax breaks and other wasteful incentives to oil companies to try and ease our pain at the pump. We now give about $4 billion in tax breaks to the oil and gas industry each and every year.
We’ve listened to naysayers tell us that pursuing clean energy alternatives to oil and gas is a waste of our time and money. Now, the United States is lagging much of the rest of the world on clean energy.

And what have we gotten in return? … Continue Reading

The French Revolution And Today’s Activist Movements

 The French Revolution (French: Révolution française; 1789–1799), was a period of radical social and political upheaval in France that had a major impact on France and throughout the rest of Europe. The absolute monarchy that had ruled France for centuries collapsed in three years. French society underwent an epic transformation, as feudal, aristocratic and religious privileges evaporated under a sustained assault from radical left-wing political groups, masses on the streets, and peasants in the countryside.^[3] Old ideas about tradition and hierarchy – of monarchy, aristocracy, and religious authority – were abruptly overthrown by new Enlightenment principles of equality, citizenship and inalienable rights.

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While not trying to incite violence, we are simply pointing to any noticeable similarities existing before the upheaval… So without the violence, how can the oppressed affect true lasting change?

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“We The People” Can The Pawns Ever Win?

The pawn always dies in route to victory or in defeat...

I think we can all agree that renewable and clean energy is a forgone conclusion – it’s just a matter of time; 5-years, 10-years… maybe even 50-years but, we all know it’s inevitable. This is in no way to say that oil and other fossil fuels will not be in use, instead and at the very least though, America’s importing of oil will be greatly diminished.

More and more technology and all reports indicate enormous advancement opportunities in energy outputs; electricity for heating and cooling, automobile powering, lighting, manufacturing capabilities, etc. The problem unfortunately for the U.S. and its citizens, has been China.

China beat the us to the punch. They took what U.S. leaders knew, but hesitated in developing a market for, and ran with it all the way to the bank. And now that China has shown the way to these advanced possibilities, the United States has decided to cut them out of the market, or at the very least limit their superiority – hence the current international litigation regarding China’s solar products. It should be noted, that contrary to what the Republican Congress would like for us to believe, if the U.S. thought there really wasn’t any validity to a true substantial solar market, they would not have taken any action at all against China. For why would anyone care if someone was manufacturing a product that hadn’t any true market value.

No folks, Solar is coming to the U.S. The only problem is that it will cost Americans much more than it needs to. In part however, it makes perfect sense not to send any more U.S. dollars over to China for a product that we know leaders will be pressing residents to take full advantage of in the near future but,  it also means that Americans will have to pay much more for something that we could have had at a more reasonable and affordable price.

To date, and over the past 5 years or longer, the largest of America’s investors; hedge funds, billionaire private investors, and the U.S. Government have dropped hundreds of billions of dollars into the renewable/clean energy space including solar. However, by its publicly open and firm stance against China’s solar-panel exporting business which by the way has been going on for several years supplying the rest of the world including the U.S. with solar panels for many of the world’s largest solar projects at enormously cheap prices, this signals it is time for investors to recoup their investments. Unfortunately, it will be at the expense to us, US residents to pay everyone back.

We have all been put in the predicament of; we could slowly send all of our money to China for supplying us with our needs or, we can keep our money at home in the U.S. and instead, we just have to pay more for our needs, because investors must be paid back. Either way we’re screwed, because those who truly control our country have already made the decision for us. It would simply be nice though, if they would find a way for our wages to increase proportionately as well…

WE THE PEOPLE are but pawns in this chess game where only those at the top truly continue to benefit, here in the U.S., China, and elsewhere too!

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Where will Gas Prices be in 10 Years?

The United States has the world's largest motor vehicle registered fleet, with almost 250 million vehicles.

With China and India at currently less than 10% of their citizens owning an automobile, yet they continue to grow and industrialize and push for more automobile ownership – where will gasoline prices be say 10-years from now? … Continue Reading

Should The U.S Have A Clean Energy Policy Or Not

• The Federal government has aggressively committed to supporting clean energy over the last few years.

• More importantly, based on early returns, this support for clean energy appears to have paid off handsomely.

• In spite of the success of these policies, many of them are about to vanish.

Experts from Brookings, Breakthough Institute and WRI released a report today with some insightful and thought-provoking conclusions.  In it, they quantify the amount of government funding provided to clean energy from 2009-2014 and the rate that funding will fall off post 2014 (from $44 billion in 2009, to $16.1 billion in 2012, to $11.0 billion in 2014), and the impact that will have on clean technology industries. The report then outlines a host of policy reforms that would improve the efficiency and functioning of our clean energy policy framework.  It represents a well-researched and well-intentioned attempt to start a conversation about energy policy reform that we really need to be having.

Do you think we should continue and thus have a Clean Energy Policy or should we just forget about it all together and stick with what we’ve been doing for the past 100-years -

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Talking about Nonsense, Ignoring the Necessary – Are We Doomed To Fail?

Hopefully the U.S. has not hit an iceberg several hours ago...

With all the political game playing, gamesmanship, ‘necessary part of the process’ going on in Washington, DC over everything from Renewable/Clean Energy to Secret Service Agents’ behavior to China, Afghanistan, Colombia, Canada’s XL Pipeline, etc…,

Is the country becoming the better or worse from all the stone-walling on issues that need resolution and hyping over the absurd (ie; SS Agents’ “playtime”)?

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How About a U.S. 50% Carbon Neutral in 40 Years?

A biodiesel tractor on Samso

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What do you think… If it weren’t for opposition from Big Oil, could the U.S. ever become even 50% Carbon Neutral?