Every so often I read the daily news and I just get feed up with the inept leaders that are running this world. They do not seem to have a collective grain of wisdom between them.
Today we read that wholesale prices are up 1.1 percent in one month! Oil is at $113 a barrel and rising and food prices have gone up so much that people in poor countries are in danger of starvation.
Now who were the idiots that suggested we make grains into alcohol to run cars? I recall that Bush signed a piece of nutty legislation that will make 20 percent of our liquid fuel alcohol. The EU and other countries are also converting grains to alcohol. Meanwhile, people in poor countries are going hungry and are in danger of starving. Great thinking guys! With leadership and thinking like that you must of slept through your education classes and especially through your leadership training. These nutty polices must be reversed now!
I know the hype coming from Al Gore, had something to do with these government polices and that is why I say Al Gore is the most dangerous man in the world. Those that follow his leading will in the end bring starvation to millions.
Since you world leaders are clueless let me tell you the solutions?
1. Stop converting grains to make alcohol to run in cars. It was never needed. It is inefficient and the world does not have food to burn! Will this increase demand on oil? Not much. Any oil shortfalls can be taken care of quite easily as I will outline below.
2. Stop paying over $100 a barrel for oil to these vultures. I would not pay more than $50. How do we do that? First we DISBAND OPEC by world or U.S. decree. It is an illegal monopoly. If anyone whats to argue about it, that is why our taxes pay for all our aircraft carrier task forces. They were built to protect us from foreign enemies. If anyone thinks paying these extortion rates for oil (from wells that we developed in the Middle East) are not a huge danger to our country they are not living in reality. By the way, “our friend” Saudi Arabia alone could pump enough additional oil to bring the world oil prices down significantly.
3. Cut through the environmental red tape and allow for oil drilling off our coasts and in Alaska. There is significant oil there. All oil companies during this national emergency should be required to reinvest most profits into new energy production until balanced energy levels are achieved.
4. Vastly expand coal production and scrap all the restrictions put on new coal plants because of the global waring nonsense. We could make liquid fuel out of coal slurry for our cars and also use coal generating plants for spare electric generation at night for charging electric cars.
5. Build some damn refineries. Not one has been built in 30 years in this country mostly due to asinine environmental regulations. Meanwhile stop the insane laws that required scores of different types of fuel and fuel additives that adds to the costs and creates spot fuel shortages. Let the refineries we have produce 5 or 6 different major fuels and not be required to make 50.
6. Stop this crazy oil speculation in the markets. They are adding a third to the price of oil and they add nothing to our economy other than gambling. It can be stopped.
7. Government Incentives for mass production of reasonable priced electric cars for city commuting.
8. A major national project to develop solar energy production. They are doing it in Israel, we can certainly do it here. Solar energy at less then 10C a KW hour is easily achievable in the Southwestern deserts with today’s technology. The above ground land area in the Nevada Nuclear Test Site alone could produce much of the electricity needs for this country at reasonable rates.
Contact your representatives in Washington and demand action.