I have some comments regarding my fellow citizen's comments from Dallas, Texas, but first I'd like to say that this list is fantastic and very useful.
I'm a grad student in California trying to move into renewable energy production. As a research scientist I KNOW that the technologies are totally feasible - biodiesel, ethanol, photovoltaics, wind - and I also know that California gets 25% of its oil from Iraq (pre-war). So it is (unfortunately) a political issue - if it wasn't, California would have switched to renewables entirely about 25 years ago - no fossil fuels whatsoever. So I completely appreciate the 'political' posts as well as the technical ones, and I'm sure as hell not going to give up my citizenship and leave the state! Some of my fellow citizens apparently don't understand the fact that the only reason we have any rights in the US is because people fought for them for hundreds of years. Leave the country? I think not. In any case, what we are going to do in California is do what should have been done 25 years ago- completely switch to renewable energy sources. There are about a thousand entrenched obstacles, but we really have no other choice. There are thousands of people in California that are behind this approach, from all levels of society. We are going to build ethanol and biodiesel processing plants, using local agriculture, we are going to build and manufacture solar arrays and wind turbines, and anyone with the necessary skills can participate. Everyone I talk to has had enough of the energy barons and the ripoffs - see Greg Palast's chapter on "California Reamin'" in his new book for the details. We want no part of the Bush-Cheney-Rumsfeld-Ashcroft junta and their dreams of world conquest. What do they worry about most? Losing control of the energy supply - which is what renewable, dispersed energy means to them, which is why the first thing they did was to slash the renewable research budget. Yes, the propaganda is piled on thick here - see www.dieoff.org for a cleverly disguised example. The theme of this site is that we (in the US) are going to die a horrible death of energy starvation unless we grab the world's oil....since only an idiot would trust solar energy and biofuels to 'do the job'....This is high-brow propaganda - for more examples, see www.luntzspeak.com, and then try doing a Google search for 'luntzspeak'- is that a first? Is that really censorship on Google? I hope its just technical. GW BUSH Luntzspeak: "I'm proposing 1.2 billion in research funding so that America can lead the world in developing clean, hydrogen-powered automobiles...The first car driven by a child born today could be powered by hydrogen, and pollution-free." GW BUSH English translation: "The Big 3 automakers have fought for decades against fuel efficiency. But, its the State of the Union, and I need a way to look green. By 'proposing' research funding, I can put off any real emissions reductions for years." http://www.luntzspeak.com/decoder.html Anyhow, this list is great. Best wishes, Karus Solem ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Make Money Online Auctions! Make $500.00 or We Will Give You Thirty Dollars for Trying! http://us.click.yahoo.com/yMx78A/fNtFAA/i5gGAA/FGYolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
