You have an energy crisis if you can’t get out of bed in the morning! A shortage of cheap gasoline and electricity is an inconvenience indicating that the crunch is a lack of problem-solving leadership by nearsighted government regulators, bureaucratic public utilities and the political sponsors of polluting technologies.
Our infatuation with fossil fuels as the foundation for progress is fading and the marriage for money between political institutions and the dominant energy producers is strained; as social and environmental costs become intolerable.
The resolution, which will cleanly and brightly power the future that inventive, energetic youth create, resides in selectively tapping other natural forces: water, wind; solar, tidal; magnetic, genetic; fission, fusion; geological, biological; godly, demonic.
Worldwide attention to “renewables” is exemplified by the wind turbine project along the Columbia River – the potential for aero-generation of power in the Northwest is unlimited. There’s enough flatulent belching from Olympia’s politicos alone to power a 100 megawatt wind farm.
Monroe
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