Big Oil's State of Denial

"We have met the enemy and he is us"

... a famous quotation you all should recognize and come to grips with... our lavish use of energy and attitude that cheap energy is an entitlement are the root of the problem. Don't beat up on the oil companies for succeeding in what they do best and demonstrating the spirit upon which our country was built. EM is in the business to produce oil and has the technology, expertise, and effectiveness to do it well... so let them do their job and let the marketplace sort out which of the alternative energy sources is worth pursuing.

Same old energy, alternative universe

"They are in the business of supplying oil products."

That won't be so bad if that's all that ExxonMobil does. The thing is, in order to sustain its business model -- which is getting more and more unviable -- it has to continue funding front groups such as the Heritage Institute, the AEI, etc. to pump out eco-inactivist bollocks.

Oh yes, Tillerson tells us that they recently stopped funding _some_ of these front groups. _Some_.

-- bi, http://frankbi.wordpress.com/

Alternative energy

Why should we expect oil companies to develop alternative fuel? They are in the business of supplying oil products. Let someone else create the alternative energy sources, then the oil companies can go the way of buggy whip makers.

Abolish the HOV

Today's WAPO:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/01/AR2008060102582.html

A quote from the article:

"It's 25 minutes to Woodbridge this way; it's an hour and 25 minutes in the regular lanes," said Gonzalez, who had been working since 6 a.m.

This is insanity. HOV's increase demand.

energy solutions,many roads,many answers.

for many years , i have looked at the problems facing the worlds transportion problem,but first i must tell you i am a self taught man,i worked all my life in various fields of work,but i always had time to read,in time i realized a grave error in car motors was made the normal car motor was only half way built, you may be laughing right now but its true,fact a motor only runs 20per cent of its potential a blue printed car only at 24per cent of its potential if i am right all the great men in the last 90years have been so buzy they have missed the target of 45% because the answer has been looking at them in the face all along. nikola tesla was a man simple, but a genius, please look close at a car motor ,if you look hard you will see what is missing,i am 62yrs old but my mind is like a razor blade. i would tell you the answer but if i did it would shame all the elite geniuses , i have one us patent already issued in 1999yr , no big deal but in 1980 i wrote brock adams dept of transportion a letter and told him what was going to happen to oil and the results are here now , its time to put a task force together to get the problem fixed now our tommorows will be to late, to little to late if the boys cant see the problem with the motors design , just call if anything , i by nature as an inventor dont generaly say much to anyone for people are generaly ,very stupid when it comes to simple answers, if i am right it may be just the idea that starts the ball rolling to make things right, maybe a way to power a car with less fuel and emissions. too! my p.o.box is 754 point arena california, if you laugh its ok because many visionary people in the past were laughed at to tesla , columbus,the wright bros. etc . at present rate the system will be chaos, then the end will be terrible.thank you for reading this simple letter from a man with a vision.DR.HILL if not i tried .sincerely peter paul.

Rockefeller - XOM - etc....

Rockefeller family offers no solutions to our energy issues...XOM's mandate is to find more energy solutions, and provide a return for it's stock holders. The family should sell their XOM, but they can't because most of them are probably living on their XOM dividends. The Congress could be a great help in finding solutions by drilling for more oil and gas [NOW] off shore and in ANWR to provide the energy for our economy. We [XOM] included need to invest in R & D for our future econ-friendly energy sources, and that does NOT include Congressionally subsidized corn ethanol...Congress ought to review Brazil's energy program. XOM will continue investing it's money in successful alternative energy projects, but they are to well run to waste money on subsidized programs i.e. corn ethanol.

Note - American consumer is taking it in the ear with our ethanol fuel....energy produced is less than gas by a wide margin, and costs the same?

Global warming is still being debated...32,000 scientists recently declared that the UN/Gore Global Warming Blame Game is wrong.

FYI - XOM paid $30Billion in taxes in 2007 @ 42% rate....It operated at a after tax profit margin of slightly over 9.5%. Have you ever checked the profit margins on some of your favorite stocks, i.e. technology, tobacco, drugs, internet, etc?

Have you checked out our tax on Brazilian Ethanol? Congress continues to be THE ENERGY PROBLEM [Both Dems and Reps], and good long term eco-friendly energy solutions do not seem to be on their radar. BUT, being a bully and blaming someone else for their ineptitude always seems to be their modus operendi. We need to get off the environmental power game, and have all people working together to insure our economic prosperity and meet our clean-energy needs for the future.

Cellulosic ethanol

The biggest obstacle to mass production of cellulosic ethanol (CE) in the United States is the lack of a government directive to begin extensive plantings immediately.

I live in Nevada. There are hundreds of thousands of square miles of barren, sun-scorched land in the desert west and southwest that is controlled by the BLM (Bureau of Land Management -- in other words government owned). That land does not support commercial agriculture and it never has, but it will support native species that are suitable for CE production. Sagebrush (genus Salvia) for one grows rapidly, coppices well and thrives with virtually no irrigation, fertilizer or human attention.

While the politicians and bureaucrats dither and wring their hands we could be putting millions or billions of plants in the ground and getting CE plantations established.

Reference: cellulosic ethanol (CE):

http://www.wired.com/cars/energy/news/2008/01/ethanol23

Oil & Energy Crisis - Wrong thinking to find the Solution

In your country certain politicians are now calling for an equivalent 'Manhattan Project' to solve the oil and energy crisis but where this isolationist thinking by one nation will not work. Unfortunately the present and continual energy crisis from now on is totally different to that of developing the atomic bomb in WW2 or anything else for that matter. The Manhattan project was specifically for the construction and solution of a single problem - a bomb that the Nazis may create before ourselves with catastrophic consequences. It was therefore oriented around a single entity solution. But the energy problem is so multifaceted that it would literally take hundreds of Manhattan Projects to solve. But again the greatest problem is that technological solutions take decades to evolve and make any meaningful impact. The reason, sheer logistics to construct fast enough and the distribution of such technology globally. In this respect it takes at least 2 decades to make inroads with even a new technology created today. Therefore no great change will come about to this solution for at least 3 decades and therefore the world is in for probably the roughest ride that it has ever had to contend with. But again, the real problem is the sheer lack of knowledge of our political classes in understanding the energy problem. In this respect energy and more so the sciences that underpins energy, is alien to over 90% of politicians and therefore the reason why they do not understand how to start to even solve the problem.

Indeed, scientists and engineers have known about the dire problem and the end-game scenario since mid last century but where politicians have never taken the warnings of scientists et al seriously enough to change things and the way we operate. That is basically the reason why we are in the mess that we are in today. Indeed, if our political leaders/masters had taken a long haul view of the problem some 50 to 60 years ago, we would by now have had many of the solutions at hand. But as usual, politicians are reactionary and not pro-active with their endeavors and where it takes many decades to change the direction of global systems and where now due to this political ineptitude of our leaders (since the end of WW2), we just have not the time on our side. Therefore this grave problem is decidedly at the door of politicians and no others, for they were warned decades ago about energy and the problems ahead but where they decided to do nothing about it.

The problem is global and only by constructing a centralized global research and development complex where all nations share in the solution will we as humans succeed. Without this cooperative thinking, we shall not solve humankind's most pressing problem. It is as simple as that to a very complex problem.

Dr David Hill

World Innovation Foundation Charity

Bern, Switzerland

Ps. The late Dr Glenn Seaborg (Element 106 Seaborgium) who was the head of the plutonium plant on the Manhattan Project was our Foundation's first president.

Truth about Rockefellers and KIng coal

Abolition of King Coal and Coal-Fired Plants Everywhere - No Nukes! No Uranium Mining!

If Rockefellers are sincere then they should now divest from Exxon Mobil over Global warming-set a real example-alas...

Stop the Global Warming Machines!

Stop the Coming Genocides - Food/Water/Energy Chaos!

Divest from King coal

Weekly Vigil - presently June 1, 2008

Sundays Noon-1pm

Ottawa, Ontario - Canada

U.S. Embassy

490 Sussex Dr.

Paradigm Shift Environmental Alliance

psea4earth@gmail.com

Please see the following links or google “abolition of coal”

http://quebec.indymedia.org/en/node/28427