THE ALTERNATIVE ENERGIES MARSHALL PLAN
the problem:
is with a president who is a texas oil man
& a vice president the former CEO of haliburton
the worlds largest supplier
of infrastructure to the oil industry
there is no incentive
to find any solution or resolution
to any crisis in the middle east
or any instability anywhere in the world
from Nigeria to Venezuela
Uzbekistan to Iran,
Sudan to Columbia
Brazil to Malaysia
to Lebanon to even
the Alaska NATIONAL
wildlife preserve,
the slow comeback of the gulf coast
& the strategy of limiting
oil refinery capacity in the US
insuring rumours of rolling blackout
in California, the 5th largest economy
in the world...
rumors of limits, shortages,
long gas pump lines
& high prices
keep gas pump prices high..
what incentive do oil producers
from texas to Dubai
have to keep prices low..?
NONE
low gas prices is what drove
failing young oilman george w.bush
& his oilman contemporaries to
join the midland texas bible study group
become born again
& stop drinking & drugging
low gas prices cause
domestic oil producers to cap wells
'til the price goes up...
well they've certainly enjoyed the benefits
of having one their own
god fearing, born again christian
texas oil men in the whitehouse
playing the roll of the hothead
unreasonable, unpredictable wildcat/
cowboy/ christian crusader/avenger/
loose canon...
the more uncertainty there is
or merely appears to be
with the oil producing nations
of the world
the higher gas prices will stay
rumors of war
serve as good as
actual armed conflict
as an excuse in the justification for keeping the
price of a barrel of oil high...
who are the main beneficiaries
but Canada, the texans, the arabs, the russians
a handful of third world bureaucrats,
oil commodity trading firms,
& their stockholders..
the gross ineptitude & inadequacy
the the bush administration has made
of US foreign policy
through bullying & blundering;
the media parroting the abstract concept of
an endless war on terrorism through the daily repetition
of the words "war", "terror", "threat", & "fear";
[hurricanes, tidal waves, & natural disasters..
all bonus mayhem]
serve to create an atmosphere of instability
that in turn helps to justify high gas prices...
basically these people have no incentive
to do the right thing
except to appear to be doing the right thing
to justify doing little more
than helping their friends
make as much money as they can
out of the status quo
while they can
before either the oil runs out,
they all get run out of office,
or technology changes the playing field
which ever comes first..
the one thing these folks didn't
count on is fear fatigue
where people just get tired of being afraid
& seek to silence the fearmongers
the result of the midterm elections...
wars stop
when enough people
get tired enough
to stop participating in them
the goal of those behind
the insurgencies in iraq
is to create enough
kaos, hopelessness, & despair
for the US and all western influence
to leave in enough disgrace
to think thrice about returning
to meddle in middle eastern/ Arab/ Muslim
affairs ever again
and then establish a ultra conservative global
Muslim theocracy based on a strict interpretation
of the Koran...
[hence the execution by the insurgencies of
barbers: beards are good
shaving is bad to the conservatives..
doctors: western medicine -bad
professors: western training -bad
school teachers: western influences -bad
like educating women.. -an abomination
blowing up schools: more fighting against western influence
such execution serve
the added goal of sending a clear message of
intolerance for those who would stay
& inspiring all the other western leaning
to become refugees/ messengers of fear...]
stability works against this strategy
but as the old saying goes
it takes a carpenters' sweat, skill, & time to build a barn
but a jackass but a second to knock it down
it's easier to create kaos
than to maintain stability...
it appears easier for some
to take life that to nurture & nourish it
to hope earthly hope
it appears easier to some
to be about death
than to live
it appears easier for some
to make war & villains of our fellows
than to do the work necessary
to create & maintain
a healthy environment
that includes tolerance & dissent
given all this
the solution is in ending the argument
through technological advancement
imagine if the people of the united states
& all other like minded countries
chose to lead the world
in discovering & implementing
alternative energies innovations,
completely focusing our national energies on
totally ending the dependency of our global
economies & technologies on oil
through a grassroots technological revolution
resulting in the adoption & creation
of a completely non oil based economy
then that would take away oil
as an excuse, a bargaining chip,
a hostage, a carrot,
a reason or justification
for wars & supporting dictatorships
co opting our own
stated democratic principles
by denying
freedom of democratic
self determination
to other peoples
& developing nations
due to economic expediency & imperative:
i.e."..but we needed the oil..."
the result:
the success
of our technological undertaking
through
THE ALTERNATIVE ENERGIES
MARSHALL PLAN:
those whose economies
& politics depend
on the maintenance of the status quo
with regards to oil
both in the middle east
& elsewhere
would be left
with the argument
& not much else...
for at the moment
the argument is financed
through oil
"..living well
is the best revenge.."
the old saying goes
if we want to win the war
exit the argument it's based on
what would an alternative energies
Marshall plan look like?
a.
tax incentives & subsidies
for research, development
implementation, purchasing
alternative energies based vehicles,
power, heating & cooling systems
for home & industry
b.
increased funding for existing national
laboratories specifically for the
development of alternative energies..
c.
the establishment of
8 new regional centers for alternative energy
research, development, & implementation..
d.
matching federal funds
for state centers of alternative energy research,
development, & implementation..
e.
annual national & international conferences for
alternative energies research, development,
& implementation..
[model: world economic forum]
f.
federal & state
[& even united nations] sponsorship
of an annual design competition for grants
for individuals, organizations, & corporations
for alternative energies research, development,
& implementation..
g.
the establishment of both
a national endowment
& a national academy
for alternative energies research,
development, & implementation..
h.
establishment of the department of
alternative energies research,
development, & implementation.
with a cabinet level post..
such an undertaking as this initiative
focuses on our strengths as a nation
what america is famous for:
technological innovation,
organization,
pioneering design,
& capitalization..
we owe this to our children
to do everything we can do
to leave the world better than we found it
ecologically
we would be the first generation
to do so...
any presidential candidate who
would advocate
THE ALTERNATIVE ENERGIES
MARSHALL PLAN
would be a beacon for all those
who would like to embrace a future
of global prosperity beyond
the excuses maintained
& routinely served up
for the past century
by the dinosaurs of the limited pie view
to justify screwing some group of the human race
so that one small group of humans
could own & control all of the global resources
to do with as they please for the benefit
of just them & their friends..
this view & mindset
is inevitably & irreversibly
dying now
because it is fundamentally flawed
by being based on erroneous notions
like
everything isn't connected
that there is such a thing as
trash in the cosmic sense
that one can actually
throw something away
on this planet & not
have it effect something else
that one person could ever be
better than or worse than another
in the eyes of the divine
merely by being better off
or worse off financially..
that because someone
is said to legally own the earth
that that gives them carte blanche
to do whatever they like with it
even if that means
chopping down the last tree
or driving the last species to extinction
all for personal financial gain
over the needs of the whole system
from the ecological to the spiritual
from the earth to the stars..
put another more positive way:
imagine that the world we live in today
is evolving into a globally aware,
energy sensitive,
species conscious world
based on respect for & recognition of
the natural precepts of the infinite universe
like:
everything is connected
to everything else
it's a whole system
everything is energy
everything is light & vibration
everything is awake & alive
everything matters
everything counts somehow
the universe loves everyone equally
every soul born
is welcome
in the universe
&
by the universe
for however long the universe
determines
every soul born deserves to be here
and is equally entitled to enjoy the full benefits
of the natural resources of the universe
what happens to one happens to all
[example:no hording allowed
or necessary
because it hurts everyone
including the hoarder
who is stuck on the illusion
of a reality of lack
in an infinite universe]
true happiness
is to be found in willfully
sharing
the journey
realizing fellowship
recognising spiritual kinship..
growth
even spiritual growth
comes through
the choice of empathy
& the earthly practise of compassion..
for a moment
just imagine an entire world based on the notion
that the universe is love...
Labels: energy policy, geopolitics, iraq, middle east, solutions
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