The Energy Non-Crisis
Are you and your family finding the cost gas taking it's toll on the money you have available for food, clothes, and everyday living expenses? Well there is a sinister reason for it and educating yourself will make a huge difference for future generations...
I want to introduce to you a gentleman named Lindsey Williams. Lindsey Williams, who has been an ordained Baptist minister for 28 years, went to Alaska in 1971 as a missionary. Because of the executive status accorded to him as Chaplain, he was given access to information documented in his eye opening book, The Energy Non-Crisis.
More than 400,000 people have signed a petition urging Congress to start drilling for oil domestically. If you haven't signed the petition, I hope you'll sign it now and join me in sending a message to Congress that we need real solutions to stop the pain Americans are feeling at the pump.
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Contents at a Glance
- Bush's Policy Towards Hostile Countries.
- Idea of gas-tax holiday runs into a dead end.
- The Energy Non-Crisis - Part 1 of 8
Bush's Policy Towards Hostile Countries.
Idea of gas-tax holiday runs into a dead end.
July 19, 2008
Talk now is to raise tax a dime a gallon to fund road improvements.
WASHINGTON - The political vision of a summer gas tax holiday died a quick death in Congress, losing to a view that federal excise taxes on gasoline and diesel fuel will have to go up if they go anywhere.
Despite calls from the presidential campaign trail for a Memorial Day-to-Labor Day tax freeze, lawmakers quickly concluded - with a prod from the construction industry - that having $9 billion less to spend on highways could create a pre-election specter of thousands of lost jobs.
Now, lawmakers quietly are talking about raising fuel taxes by a dime from the current 18.4 cents a gallon on gasoline and 24.3 cents on diesel fuel.
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"Drill Here. Drill Now. Pay Less."
Petition signatures that will be presented to both the Republican and Democrat Conventions in August. You can help us reach this goal by inviting your friends and family to sign the petition.
WASHINGTON - The political vision of a summer gas tax holiday died a quick death in Congress, losing to a view that federal excise taxes on gasoline and diesel fuel will have to go up if they go anywhere.
Despite calls from the presidential campaign trail for a Memorial Day-to-Labor Day tax freeze, lawmakers quickly concluded - with a prod from the construction industry - that having $9 billion less to spend on highways could create a pre-election specter of thousands of lost jobs.
Now, lawmakers quietly are talking about raising fuel taxes by a dime from the current 18.4 cents a gallon on gasoline and 24.3 cents on diesel fuel.
Article Continues...
"Drill Here. Drill Now. Pay Less."
Petition signatures that will be presented to both the Republican and Democrat Conventions in August. You can help us reach this goal by inviting your friends and family to sign the petition.
The Energy Non-Crisis - Part 1 of 8
Alaska's Gull Island Oil Fields Could Power U.S. for 200 Years
The Full Length (75 minute) Energy Non-Crisis Google Video
The Full Length (75 minute) Energy Non-Crisis Google Video
Dollar Collapse - $12 per Gallon Gasoline?
Dollar Collapse - $12 per Gallon Gasoline?
As the dollar tumbles and oil supplies plateau, $4.00 a gallon gas will be considered the "Good Old Days".
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This 4th of July we're declaring our energy independence!
We All Know What Happened the Last Time an American Declaration of Independence Was Ignored...
However you're most comfortable doing it, make sure you deliver this message: This 4th of July isn't business as usual. Not this time. Not this year.
This Independence Day the American people are declaring our independence from high energy prices, from foreign dictators, and from pathetic excuses for inaction in Washington.
This 4th of July we're declaring our energy independence.
And we all know what happened to the last ruling elite that ignored an American declaration of independence...
Click here to find out which leaders in your state have signed the Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less Petition in Your State
This Independence Day the American people are declaring our independence from high energy prices, from foreign dictators, and from pathetic excuses for inaction in Washington.
This 4th of July we're declaring our energy independence.
And we all know what happened to the last ruling elite that ignored an American declaration of independence...
Click here to find out which leaders in your state have signed the Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less Petition in Your State
The Price They Paid
Author Unknown
Have you ever wondered what happened to the 56 men who signed the Declaration of Independence?
Five signers were captured by the British as traitors, and tortured before they died. Twelve had their homes ransacked and burned. Two lost their sons in the revolutionary army, another had two sons captured. Nine of the 56 fought and died from wounds or hardships of the revolutionary war.
They signed and they pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor.
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What kind of men were they? Twenty-four were lawyers and jurists.Eleven were merchants, nine were farmers and large plantation owners, men of means, well educated. But they signed the Declaration of Independence knowing full well that the penalty would be death if they were captured.
Carter Braxton of Virginia, a wealthy planter and trader, saw his ships swept from the seas by the British Navy. He sold his home and properties to pay his debts, and died in rags.
Thomas McKeam was so hounded by the British that he was forced to move his family almost constantly. He served in the Congress without pay, and his family was kept in hiding. His possessions were taken from him, and poverty was his reward.
Vandals or soldiers or both, looted the properties of Ellery, Clymer, Hall, Walton, Gwinnett, Heyward, Ruttledge, and Middleton.
At the battle of Yorktown, Thomas Nelson Jr., noted that the British General Cornwallis had taken over the Nelson home for his head quarters. The owner quietly urged General George Washington to open fire. The home was destroyed, and Nelson died bankrupt.
Francis Lewis had his home and properties destroyed. The enemy jailed his wife, and she died within a few months.
John Hart was driven from his wife's bedside as she was dying.Their 13 children fled for their lives. His fields and his gristmill were laid to waste. For more than a year he lived in forests and caves, returning home to find his wife dead and his children vanished. A few weeks later he died from exhaustion and a broken heart. Norris and Livingston suffered similar fates.
Such were the stories and sacrifices of the American Revolution.These were not wild eyed, rabble-rousing ruffians. They were soft-spoken men of means and education. They had security, but they valued liberty more. Standing tall, straight, and unwavering, they pledged: "For the support of this declaration, with firm reliance on the protection of the divine providence, we mutually pledge to each other, our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor."
Contributed by Garry Hildreth - Erie, PA
They gave you and I a free and independent America. The history books never told you a lot of what happened in the revolutionary war. We didn't just fight the British. We were British subjects at that time and we fought our own government! Perhaps you can now see why our founding fathers had a hatred for standing armies, and allowed through the second amendment for everyone to be armed.
Frankly, I can't read this without crying. Some of us take these liberties so much for granted. We shouldn't. - Garry Hildreth
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As someone who lived through the energy crisis of the 70s when people killed each other waitiing in line for $.50/gal. gas, I am still stunned that we ever got to where we are today. Why did we not continue using the lessons that we learned then? How did we ever get to plastics everywhere, gas guzzler vehicles, wasting energy on so many levels, the throw away mentality and the excesses that we have today?
Some of the things that we could be using might cost more to implement but would save us so much money in the long run and certainly save on the things that matter most to Mother Earth.
We have the knowledge to have very energy efficient and safe homes. Instead, we have shoddy construction that waste massive amounts of energy and blow away in the winds.
We are paying dearly for lessons not learned.
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I like this Lens. I give it 5 stars! This has been a mind blowing year. A week ago I saw the Lindsey Williams videos and was shocked! I encourage everyone to educate them selves now. This is new Lens I made after learning that you can Run Your Car on Water. Please stop by to review it. Posted June 05, 2008 |
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Alaska's Gull Island Oil Fields Could Power U.S. for 200 Years
By Mark Anderson
"Crude oil is the real 'currency' of the world," said Lindsey Williams at a gathering of the Midwest Concerned Citizens group in Kansas City on July 22. But Americans will never hear about huge oil and gas reserves in the United States, which, if ever tapped, would bring today's fuel prices at least as low as $1.50 per gallon and make America more energy independent.
As a Baptist missionary in the 1970s, Williams said he rubbed elbows with members of the world's power elite-who boasted of detailed 30-year and 50-year plans to control the flow of oil and information.
A huge quantity of crude oil and natural gas exists under Gull Island, located in the waters of Prudhoe Bay in Alaska, says Williams. He cited key British Petroleum memoranda and related the statements of upper echelon oil officials who told him that Gull Island would be kept under wraps, limiting domestic supplies so Americans would someday see prices hit up to $10 a gallon at the pump.
"Every issue in the world today relates to crude oil," said Williams. The U.S. occupation of Iraq and the saber rattling about attacking Iran fit into the crude oil matrix.
Iran is being targeted because it's one of several countries that want to use their own currencies for oil sales, rather than using the U.S. dollar. Williams told AFP that any country that doesn't want to "play ball" with the U.S. government and the financial and oil interests is, in essence, put on a hit list.
The United States, he said, learned that Iran intended to form its own bourse and not use the dollar for oil sales. Therefore, the notion that Iran is a menacing "almost-nuclear" country was trumped up, presented as fact via the corporate media and Iran is now in the crosshairs.
Other nations wanting more independence from U.S. meddling include Norway, Venezuela, Nigeria, Bolivia, Sweden and Russia.
The 30-year plan, which was first proposed three decades ago and is nearing fruition, included smug assurances from oil officials that the United States will triple its crude-oil usage and alternative fuels will not be allowed to gain enough ground to make a difference. They also noted that all foreign oil production will be scaled back to the United States and that Americans soon will pay $4 to $5 a gallon at the pump and could pay as much as $7 to $10 down the road.
In the early 1960s crude oil was selected as a tool of world control, Williams said, adding, "What we pay at the gas pump is a form of taxation." The American consumer's dependence on crude oil thus far has enabled people from foreign oil-producing nations to buy T-bills (U.S. treasury notes) in order to support the U.S. national debt and continued deficit spending. The need to support that debt puts the U.S. government in a bind, forcing Americans to remain dependent on foreign oil.
Williams, as a chaplain in 1970 when the trans-Alaskan oil pipeline was finished, ministered among the pipeline workers. However, as time passed he made a favorable impression with the top brass and was asked to improve worker-company relations. Next thing he knew, he said he was sitting at meetings of the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and various meetings of oil executives over a three-year period.
He told AFP that the IMF-World Bank acts as a middleman between oil producing nations and refineries. In so doing, they set oil prices, he said.
The big event in that three-year period was in 1977 when an Atlantic Richfield oil executive told him, "We have just drilled into the largest pool of oil in North America-[and] in the world!"
That pool was Gull Island. It was said that there was enough natural gas to supply America for 200 years. But to this day, "not one drop" of that oil has been released to American refineries, Williams said.
Williams said the executive had warned him that the Gull Island find was highly classified. Do not repeat any of this, he was told. Obviously, that warning did not stop him.
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Mr Miller's prediction is well beyond even the most heady market forecasts, the most extreme of which fall between $150 and $200 per barrel, and was explained only by vague references to demand from the developing world. It nonetheless stoked an already febrile atmosphere of growing public anger across Europe over a soaring fuel cost that is wreaking havoc at nearly every level of the economy.
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The New Zealand Water Car One Year Later (and the State of Alternative Energy)
by: Mark Joyner May 26, 2008
It's been over a year now since I did the famous water car video testing what Steve Ryan from Biosfuel in New Zealand claims is a water based fuel that runs on a normal car.
The test was dramatic, but inconclusive: it was not performed in a controlled environment, nor did it analyze the emissions of the car.
I asked to set up a 2nd experiment in an accredited lab and the folks at Biosfuel agreed. Unfortunately, up until this point the promised test has never materialized.
Without analyzing the emissions, it's impossible to know what is actually happening with this fuel. For example, some have rightfully suggested that it may just be burning the waste oil mixed into the fuel and not hydrogen as Biosfuel claims. Indeed, something has to be happening with the waste oil.
Analyzing the emissions would tell the full story. And of course you'd have to do that in a controlled environment independent of the inventors to gather any scientifically-useful evidence.
So, I'm going to have to lay this one to rest ...
The folks at Biosfuel showed me other alternative energy technologies that seemed promising, but without testing them there's no way I can know all of this isn't just a hoax. (Nothing personal against the folks there. They have all been friendly to me every step of the way. But I can't allow that to cloud my reporting of the facts to you, and there you have it.)
Conclusion: Inconclusive. I wish them the best and cordially invite a rebuttal from them in the comments below.
Moving on ...
So, what about the toy hydrogen fuel cell car I showed you?
Well, despite what some of the supremely ignorant flamers on YouTube would have you believe, hydrogen fuel cells are still quite promising.
In fact, there are now "Hydrogen Highway" projects in Canada, Denmark (together with Norway and Sweden), Japan, and the United States (in California and Florida).
And the suggestion I made about creating a network of solar panels to power the fueling stations is becoming a reality as well.
Further, it's not just for cars. Many of these Hydrogen Highway projects are showcasing consumer electronics that use micro-fuel-cells and various industrial applications as well.
It appears the biggest bottleneck is getting the cost of hydrogen production down. Setting up a solar grid that is constantly producing and storing the hydrogen sure seems like a solution that would work.
Conclusion: there are still a few issues to be worked out, but they don't seem in any way insurmountable. Like it or not - believe it or not - hydrogen fuel is coming.
No matter how you slice it, our dependence on the industrial-era technology of fossil fuel seems to be one of the primary causes of planetary havoc right now ...
1. Whether or not you agree with Al Gore's global warming arguments, we can all agree on this: air pollution sucks. I don't know of anyone that is "pro-smog" (it would be sort of like saying you're "pro-cancer") and fossil fuels are one of the primary causes.
2. In the United States we are highly dependent on fuel imported from other countries. Not only does this weaken our economy, but it negatively affects our national security as well. Think about it like this: the military runs on fossil fuels. If forces outside of the U.S. control this resource (remember what I said about Technology Binds), we can be controlled.
3. If those who believe we have already passed the Peak Oil mark are correct, you aren't going to see a reduction in gas prices any time soon (our presence, or lack thereof, in Iraq won't make much difference if the real issue is one of production capacity).
4. Our National Debt is at $9.5 trillion. About 25% of that debt is owed to foreign creditors, and that percentage is growing. One of the reasons this is happening is the war in Iraq. No matter how you feel about the war, the fact is that we can't afford it. So, we're allowing the central banks of foreign countries (primarily China) to purchase treasury bonds in order to fund the war. Is that somehow tied in to our dependence on fossil fuels? Well, it depends on whether or not you believe oil was one of the motivators for going to war. Can we really know?
What baffles me is that none of the U.S. presidential candidates are addressing this issue in their campaigns. At least, I haven't heard anything about it ...
(I'd like to personally thank the mainstream media for ensuring that I'm far more familiar with Obama's pastor than I am with his energy policies.)
We need to pick up the pace, folks. Our governments are moving on this, but not nearly fast enough.
What are you going to do about it? Mark Joyner's Blog
The test was dramatic, but inconclusive: it was not performed in a controlled environment, nor did it analyze the emissions of the car.
I asked to set up a 2nd experiment in an accredited lab and the folks at Biosfuel agreed. Unfortunately, up until this point the promised test has never materialized.
Without analyzing the emissions, it's impossible to know what is actually happening with this fuel. For example, some have rightfully suggested that it may just be burning the waste oil mixed into the fuel and not hydrogen as Biosfuel claims. Indeed, something has to be happening with the waste oil.
Analyzing the emissions would tell the full story. And of course you'd have to do that in a controlled environment independent of the inventors to gather any scientifically-useful evidence.
So, I'm going to have to lay this one to rest ...
The folks at Biosfuel showed me other alternative energy technologies that seemed promising, but without testing them there's no way I can know all of this isn't just a hoax. (Nothing personal against the folks there. They have all been friendly to me every step of the way. But I can't allow that to cloud my reporting of the facts to you, and there you have it.)
Conclusion: Inconclusive. I wish them the best and cordially invite a rebuttal from them in the comments below.
Moving on ...
So, what about the toy hydrogen fuel cell car I showed you?
Well, despite what some of the supremely ignorant flamers on YouTube would have you believe, hydrogen fuel cells are still quite promising.
In fact, there are now "Hydrogen Highway" projects in Canada, Denmark (together with Norway and Sweden), Japan, and the United States (in California and Florida).
And the suggestion I made about creating a network of solar panels to power the fueling stations is becoming a reality as well.
Further, it's not just for cars. Many of these Hydrogen Highway projects are showcasing consumer electronics that use micro-fuel-cells and various industrial applications as well.
It appears the biggest bottleneck is getting the cost of hydrogen production down. Setting up a solar grid that is constantly producing and storing the hydrogen sure seems like a solution that would work.
Conclusion: there are still a few issues to be worked out, but they don't seem in any way insurmountable. Like it or not - believe it or not - hydrogen fuel is coming.
No matter how you slice it, our dependence on the industrial-era technology of fossil fuel seems to be one of the primary causes of planetary havoc right now ...
1. Whether or not you agree with Al Gore's global warming arguments, we can all agree on this: air pollution sucks. I don't know of anyone that is "pro-smog" (it would be sort of like saying you're "pro-cancer") and fossil fuels are one of the primary causes.
2. In the United States we are highly dependent on fuel imported from other countries. Not only does this weaken our economy, but it negatively affects our national security as well. Think about it like this: the military runs on fossil fuels. If forces outside of the U.S. control this resource (remember what I said about Technology Binds), we can be controlled.
3. If those who believe we have already passed the Peak Oil mark are correct, you aren't going to see a reduction in gas prices any time soon (our presence, or lack thereof, in Iraq won't make much difference if the real issue is one of production capacity).
4. Our National Debt is at $9.5 trillion. About 25% of that debt is owed to foreign creditors, and that percentage is growing. One of the reasons this is happening is the war in Iraq. No matter how you feel about the war, the fact is that we can't afford it. So, we're allowing the central banks of foreign countries (primarily China) to purchase treasury bonds in order to fund the war. Is that somehow tied in to our dependence on fossil fuels? Well, it depends on whether or not you believe oil was one of the motivators for going to war. Can we really know?
What baffles me is that none of the U.S. presidential candidates are addressing this issue in their campaigns. At least, I haven't heard anything about it ...
(I'd like to personally thank the mainstream media for ensuring that I'm far more familiar with Obama's pastor than I am with his energy policies.)
We need to pick up the pace, folks. Our governments are moving on this, but not nearly fast enough.
What are you going to do about it? Mark Joyner's Blog
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