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By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 21:24:51 +0000

There is ONLY ONE WAY for the American people to solve their $$$ crisis:
HERE IT IS:
By a sovereign act of Congress, DECLARE WAR on the Federal Reserve Bandits and outlaw their system.
The Federal Reserve (a group of private bankers) has continually been given the right to print US $$$. Then the American people, through their elected government, has been borrowing said $$$ at crippling interest rates. Simply put, this is ‘banditry’.
Why did the US government not originally have US government print said $$$ at no interest rate to the people? This unnecessary paying of interest to the private sector has accumulated to a totally unmanageable level. SOLUTION: Ban the bandits and simply write off the accrued debt plus interest as an act of war. War, not on any sovereign nation, but War on the private bankers that seduced USA when they set up that evil system so many years ago.
The Federal Reserve was set up as a tap (of interest) to siphon off the wealth of the American people into the coffers of the so-called elitists who owned the banks behind the Federal Reserve.

By: Jack Keats

Jack Keats — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 09:44:43 +0000

As I recall, former President Bush origionally spoke of using high cellulose grasses, not corn, when he proposed a biofuel initiative. In any case, as I understand it, in the corn “refining” process, the cellulose is seperated from more digestable nutritional fractions that can be used for fuel production without loss of food value.
Truly though, it is becoming apparent that the only “shortage” of domestic oil is a result of our own laws. Gulf oil fields and other offshore resources as well as our own western oil shale could provide us with fuel for the next 200 years, and that does not include domestic coal which is estimated at 25% of the world reserves which with clean generating technology could provide domestic fuel for any forseeable future needs. Government research on alcohol deisel engines has already exceeded 40% efficiency when used in a mg set for hybrid use. I’ve read recently about various bio-alcohol solutions for turning sewage into fuel when we get around to converting old facilities, and there’s news of solar cells getting down to $1/watt and batteries becoming 10 times more efficient than the current lithium/iron technology in use now, so once we bridge this gap with current domestic energy we are going to be in good shape. We just need to get moving, eh?

By: Keith

Keith — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 22:16:44 +0000

For people who don’t think OPEC caused this economic meltdown, see what happens when Chavez and Ahmadinejad and whoever else–Saud–raises the price of oil to 200$ per barrel. In other words, I dare you to talk all this about loans and whatever else when you are paying over 8 dollars per gallon of gas. Remember, less than half a year ago, when some people were paying over 5 dollars a gallon. Hmm…

By: anthropisces

anthropisces — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 03:43:31 +0000

Our new president-elect has proposed to implement a massive public works program to restore our highway/roads infrastructure. While this is generally a sound strategy, it has to be revamped as if we were already living in the future.

What is true is that roads will lead to our salvation. Those roads must extend into the future rather than into the past.

What must be done is to create a new roadway. We must not however look back at the past and decide as a past president has. Rather, we must decide to do something which has never been done before, if we are to become something new.

Vehicles lighter than 500lbs are the foundation of the plan. It is for these that the new, two-lane roadway will be built.

Each lane of the new roadway will be optimized to accomodate light vehicles, which will be narrower than standard vehicles yet will still permit passengers sitting side by side. New speed limits and rules of the road will be utilized on the new roadway.

The new road will permit the emergence of myriad new vehicle companies and more.

The materials from which the road will be constructed will be specialized and like all aspects of the undertaking-sustainable. The lighting for the roads will be completely new, the barriers which separate the new lanes from existing lanes, the signals, the paint, the reflectors, the smart elements of the road, will all be of a completely new design.

The roadsides will be reserved for wind and solar capacity, plants for biofuel or other sustainable production, native habitat, or businesses which harmonize with the new plan for the new society.

The businesses servicing road traffic will incorporate new standards of sustainability and automation. At a roadside restaurant, your sandwich will be prepared by a machine; Future generations will design and maintain automation equipment rather than flipping burgers.
Fast battery recharge stations, battery swap enterprises, and renewable fuel providers will be the best and in fact the only permitted energy vendors (lest we slip into the past).

Special consideration and expemptions will be provided as incentives for setting up shop in these new locations, which will, before long, become the premium place to do business. Guaranteed leases with highly favorable terms will be granted to those who are willing to innovate. The expectations and demands will be great, the rewards and incentives will be greater.

The road and everything traveling on it or surrounding it will be completely new, incorporate new technology, under a new set of standards that the rest of the world will be unprepared to meet, and which our own citezens will be uniquely enabled to take advantage of.

When it is done our nation will have 100,000 healthy new companies, exporting our technology to the rest of the world and continuing to innovate our own nation. Our nation will be cleaner, greener, better educated, safer and will have a more secure future.

It will not happen overnight, but it will begin overnght

By: Carney

Carney — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 19:07:43 +0000

David H Dennis, drop the counterproductive tarrifs we have in place against Brazilian ethanol and watch the price of E85 plummet.

We can reassure US farmers with a Flex Fuel mandate that creates so much ethanol business that there is more than they or anyone can handle alone, plenty to go around.

Plus, you neglect the existence of methanol, which can be made from ANY organic matter without exception, today (no more research required), and is far cheaper than gasoline.

A real flex fuel mandate would require methanol compatibility. And because methanol is the simplest alcohol molecule, any engine that can run it can also run on ethanol, and propanol, butanol, and biogasoline too.

By: andrea

andrea — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:41:50 +0000

Check this video out for insight on our economic crisis. http://www.thetruthabout.com/public/297.cfm?affID=and16

By: Dissenting Opinion

Dissenting Opinion — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 01:31:35 +0000

Interesting discussion but all over the map.
1. The low hanging fruit is drilling/mining(new oil fields and oil shale) and nuclear. Start now.
2. Flex fuel is good alternative when the new technologies that convert biomass to biodiesel mature.
3. Corn based ethanol should not be subsidized.
4. Electric cars are good and will be the urban area solution – problem is rare-earth materials requirement that has to be solved(we are running out of rare earth minerals).
5. Yes high gas prices broke the back of the housing market (last straw).
6. Subsidize any non-petroleum solution that is more than 50? efficient (most of the biomass conversion technologies could pass that test when mature).

We want to get out of the oil consumption business but not kill ourselves doing it. We want to explore all the alternatives because there will be niche markets for at least several of them and one of them will be the most cost effective oil replacement. We want to generate as much power from Nuclear because it is the efficiency king at generating the most energy for the energy cost of producing the fuel and can be relied on to produce steady power.

Oil-free future not going to happen tomorrow if we start today. But we should start today.

By: dena

dena — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 16:57:32 +0000

We need to stop depending on forgien oil and start re-bulding our own fuel in America we have the sources keep compaines from taking job’s away from Americans from leaving to other counties looking for cheaper workers – or no benefit/heath/noninsure- labor’s to do the work we can do here do not not allowed them to sell back in the USA if they leave. Stop blaming the poor or low credit comsumer on bad judgement on brokers that lie to the consumer and the bank’s they were selling home loans over price and not worth the paper they had them sign. this 700-bill- bailout is going to the same people who crash there compaines to the ground the banks are not lending the money and do not want to help those that are losing there homes once again the American people have been taken, those that fear to spred the weath are the same people who do not want to share with those who have work for this county all there lives and still cannot pay off there homes or send there children to collage and still want the American dream to make a better life for there childen and grand children. lets take care of american first and stop giving away American tax dollars to other country with no benefits to Americans first.

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Bookworm Room » The Watcher’s Council results — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 22:29:12 +0000

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