My Last Political Blog Post? I hope so.
Disinvest in fission and invest in fusion. Disinvest in oil and coal and invest in alternatives like geothermal, wind, solar, tidal, ocean wave, ocean current (like the Gulf Stream), and nanoantennas. Like fission, coal and oil have no long term future. So remove your capital while you still have capital to remove. You heard it here first.
Don’t come back whining in a year that nobody warned you and you got wiped out. Somebody is warning you right now. Even the oil sheiks are investing in solar and electric vehicles and not just to undermine the technology. A lot of inventors (I know some of them personally) complain that they come up with energy alternatives that never make it to market because the big oil companies buy up the patents and then sit on them with absolutely no intention of developing them. All that stuff on the commercials about “we’re looking into alternative energy sources” is public relations, in other words, lies. They will declare bankruptcy before they will diversify out of oil. The oil companies are about as committed to non-oil as General Motors is committed to electric vehicles — which is to say zero commitment.
Quite a few people look forward to the final liquidation (not reorganization) of both the old GM and the new GM because with that dinosaur out of the way, the new electric vehicle manufacturers will have more than a snowball’s chance in Hades.
I am a taxpayer and since (against my explicit statements in blogs) my government propped up the corrosively bad General Motors with my tax dollars, I am quite prepared to accept the loss on the “investment.” Bush and his corrupt cronies have our military in Iraq wasting billions when we needed to pull out the same day that President Obama won the election. We get no oil, the Kurds and Yazidis face genocide, Christians in Iraq are being forced out of their homes and many are leaving that country. Because Bush could not tell the difference between Iraq and Iran, Iran will soon have nuclear weapons and Iraq never would have. We turned friends, the Marsh Arabs, into enemies. We let the blood bath Baath Party get off scot-free. We ruined the good name of the USA with Abu Ghraib. There is no upside to Iraq. The USA got nothing out of a preemptive invasion of another country (granted Saddam was a dictator who used vats of acid and wood chippers to dispose of anyone he didn’t like) except the hatred of Muslims and Arabs.
Instead of taking the worldwide goodwill on the day after 9/11 and letting the police agencies of the world track down Al-Qaeda (there were candlelight vigils of sympathy for the United States in the streets of Iran!), Bush turned it over to the military. The US military consists of fine people to be sure but they have no business handling what was and is a police matter. Why dignify Al-Qaeda by treating them like an army? Treat them like the criminals they are. How much money do you want to bet that this administration and the next two leave this in the hands of the military instead of getting the military out of it completely (completely is the key) and letting the police handle it? I hope I’m wrong but even a president this smart won’t see it.
None of the villagers who have had long-term contact with Al-Qaeda like them any more than they like the Taliban. They traffic in drugs, they kill innocent people who disagree with their methods, they destroy education for girls, and I could go on with fifty other items. No one who sees Al-Qaeda or the Taliban up close (but isn’t a part of those organizations) likes them. They are medieval thugs with emphasis on the evil.
A long way from talking about oil coal, and fission but it is all linked.
When you embrace bad energy technology and bad transportation technology, you get all that comes with it: pollution, terrorism, dictatorships based on monopolization of oil, destruction of your most cherished values, the death of your children and parents in pointless wars far from home, global warming, rise in sea levels, nations going under water, the destruction of forests, asthma, emphysema, bronchitis, cancer caused by pollution, toxic waste dumps of petrochemicals, loss of species (including eventually Homo Sapiens), heart attacks caused by the decrease in the percentage of oxygen in the air, dirty bombs (fission plants are factories for M.U.F., material unaccounted for), loss of civil liberties & loss of the Bill of Rights lamely excused by the need to stop terrorism (which wouldn’t exist if we didn’t buy their darned oil), a garrison state and a police state which will happen when the first dirty bomb is exploded in the USA, ad nauseam.
Is it any wonder that cities, counties and states are moving ahead because the federal government is dragging its feet? Is it any wonder that ordinary people are having their existing cars converted into electric vehicles because they are tired of waiting for Detroit to sell affordable electric vehicles? I say with animus and anger: screw GM! They went out of their arrogant way to recall and grind up all EV’s. And certain executives in the US oil industry are flat out traitors and ought to face capital punishment. Get the police to hunt them down like deer. The Big Three automakers are more concerned with their bonuses (which they don’t deserve) than with the decline of America that they helped engineer. The arrogance of arriving in Washington in corporate jets to beg for handouts. Correction not beg. Demand. Rick Wagoner even had an attitude.
For you job seekers at a certain nuclear site, if you’re dead of cancer, a job that pollutes won’t do you a darn bit of good. What good are you to your children if you are dead? And that goes triple for coal miners. Do you really think that they can invent a dust mask that will prevent black lung? If you even bother to wear it?
Even if you don’t work in the petrochemical or coal industries, you can see the ugliness, see your grimy curtains, see the soot on your walls, and see the asphalt everywhere. You can hear the gasoline and loud diesel engines everywhere. You can smell it EVERYWHERE.
Most of us feel this way. All I’ve done is articulate it.
