We can orbit space, dig up dirt on Mars, we can build new technology.
Our government has known for quite some time (years before we were told) that the utilization of fossil fuels is taking a hole out of the Ozone layer, that it is the main culprit in the causes and effects of Global warming". so what! But mainly it has known that its supply is not endless.
There is an endless supply of sun, especially here in Florida and an endless supply of wind, especially in the Midwest and so long as we don't keep pouring crude oil in the seas, we have an endless supply of salt water to desalinize for drinking water. We have the knowledge and technology to utilize all these clean renewable energy and we have had it for quite some time. Others countries are moving fast to break their national dependency on fossil fuels and ground resources. We have the technology to produce clean electricity from these renewable energy but we allow utility companies like Progress energy in Florida, to run coal burning facilities (and a nuclear plant in the works!) to produce dirty power, ever more costly to the users, to the national deficit, to the planet. For several decades, we have developed the technology to make cars run on electric batteries. Tesla has built the Roadster reaching 200 miles an hour and going 313 miles on one charge.
Why criticize people for driving their cars to work, to school, to play, to shop and to a Hand across America protest against oil drilling? Why blame people for bringing plastic bottled water and plenty of it which media, advertising and heath agencies alike have propagandized? Why expect them to make such a sacrifice when our government and law makers elected with corporate monies, do not make any, when the immensely rich legally evade taxes and buy up the foreclosed properties at 10 cents on the dollar, when corporate giants are not required to create American jobs, reinvest in the future of this beautiful land of and use clean renewable energy?
We have heard the drug pusher's argument many times: As long as there is demand there is supply. It is only the argument of a criminal. The Oil Lords have ruled for over a century, they have courted favorable governments and helped shape corporate and fiscal laws to suit them, they have schemed in secret circles, they have scorned the environment, they have created ecological disasters here and abroad, profiteered globally and shamefully until we became entirely dependent on oil. It is time to hold them responsible for our addiction and it is time to demand clean renewable local energy.
Americans are not going to ride bicycles to the grocery store, they are not going to share inadequate public transportation to get to work, they are not going to give up that last bit of autonomy, of privacy, of self reliance, of American pride.
When electric cars will become available and affordable, Americans will line up to buy them. They could have been available 15 years ago, even 20 years ago and then my family could have bought an affordable used one last month, one made in America, with hemp cloth interior and organic rubber tires.
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