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Monthly Archives: June 2008

Lions in the Snow – Global Warming strikes again

Saturday, June 28, 2008

Is this picture real? My guess is a careful PhotoChop.

Lions in the Snow


Zoobooks Magazine

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Lexington Project – Who wins?

Friday, June 27, 2008

I spent the morning reading a bunch of blog posts about John McCain’s Lexington Project. As I mentioned yesterday, I am very excited to see this proposal. Is it perfect, no, but it is at least a stake in the ground.

Over the next couple weeks, I plan on exploring each section of the Project in more depth, please make sure that you actually read the full document. It is more than what is generally highlighted in the mainstream media.

So, while reading the various blogs, what was the most interesting thing that caught my eye?  Many blogs use Ads by Google to help generate some income.  Look at the common ads that were run on sites that discussed The Lexington Project.  Look interesting?

Ads by Google
Oil Industry
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EnergyTomorrow.org/OilBuy Energy Vending Route
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EnergyVendingBusiness.com/EnergyHow can we power a planet
hungry for electricity without damaging it? Siemens answers.
www.siemens.com/answersThe Bakken Oil Formation
The New Black Gold Rush Is On. Early Profits Revealed: New Report.
EnergyAndCapital.com/Bakken_Oil_Rpt

Well, I am glad to know that no matter what happens, Google will continue to be the middle man and make their money. :)

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Lexington Project

Thursday, June 26, 2008

Well, it appears that John McCain has been following my blog. Today he has kicked off his plan for US Energy Independence, named The Lexington Plan. McCain’s plan states that the U.S. will be independent of foreign energy sources by the year 2025.

For the town where Americans asserted their independence once before,” McCain explained of the plan’s namesake in Virginia. “Let it begin today with this commitment: In a world of hostile and unstable suppliers of oil, this nation will achieve strategic independence by 2025.”

“Much will be asked of industry as well, as automakers and others adapt to this great turn toward new sources of power, a great deal will depend on each one of us, as we learn to make smarter use of energy, and also to draw on the best ideas of both parties, and work together for the common good.”

“That is the scale of our achievement when we set our minds to a task, that is what this country can do when we see a danger, and declare a purpose, and find the will to act.”

As the readers of my blog will notice, that is exactly what we have been saying here for the past several months. If the country focuses, and asks for sacrifice, we can become energy independent in the not too distant future. What a difference that will make across out country, as well as around the world. We can stop the huge transfer of wealth from the US to the Middle East while strengthening our economy.

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Fossil Fuel Use to Grow

Wednesday, June 25, 2008

According to the Energy Department, despite persistently high oil prices, global energy demand will grow by 50 percent over the next two decades with continued heavy reliance on environmentally troublesome fossil fuels, especially coal and oil.

The projections by the Energy Department’s statistical agency said that without mandatory actions to address global warming, the amount of heat-trapping carbon dioxide flowing into the atmosphere each year from energy use will be 51 percent greater in 2030 than it was three years ago.

“Fossil fuels … are expected to continue supplying much of the energy used worldwide,” the Energy Information Administration report predicts, in spite of the growth of renewable energy sources, especial wind and biofuels.

“Global energy demand grows despite the sustained high world oil prices that are project to persist over the long term”. Oil could cost as little as $113 a barrel or as much as $186 a barrel in 2030, the analysis concluded.

This seems to be common-sense information, who would guess that energy use would not increase in the future? What seems even more obvious is that we need to start taking strong steps towards isolating the US from the rest of the world in terms of energy supply. We need our own supply of energy, preferably renewable or nuclear based, that will shield us from the volatility of the global energy market.

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Hillary Clinton’s “Debt”

Tuesday, June 24, 2008

This is ridiculous, the Clinton’s have made over 100 million dollars since Bill left the oval office. Now, she is shilling for money from the average American. I am amazed that our political leaders have the gall to do such a thing. She loaned money to her losing campaign, it failed, so now she is out the money. How can anyone think that it is even reasonable to ask hard-working people to help payoff a loan for someone who is worth over 100 million?

Faced with a campaign debt of over $20 million, Hillary Clinton discussed the issue with her former rival Barack Obama ahead of their first campaign appearance together to project Democratic party unity. The two spoke by phone Sunday night, the first time the likely Democratic nominee and his former rival have exchanged words since their private meeting in Washington weeks ago before Clinton conceded defeat and endorsed Obama. They discussed retiring Clinton’s campaign debt, a conversation Democratic sources cited by ABC called “constructive”.

Take a look at all the poor souls who are sending her money…
Begging for $$$

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McCain’s $300 million “Prize”

Tuesday, June 24, 2008

In a speech today at Fresno State University in California, the Republican presidential candidate outlined his proposal for a $300 million prize for new technology that would be 30% cheaper than current batteries and have “the size, capacity, cost and power to leapfrog the commercially available plug-in hybrids or electric cars.” He did not offer any technical specifics! I guess if he could have, we would not need a “prize”. I like the concept, but we need to pump more then $300 million into the search for alternate energy. I would like to see $100 Billion a year for the next 10 years.

McCain called the taxpayer-funded prize — $1 for every man, woman and child — “a small price to pay for helping to break the back of our oil dependency.” If $1 is cheap, why not $333 a year? Maybe then we can make a real difference.

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Four Simple Steps Towards Energy Independence

Monday, June 23, 2008

It all seems so simple.  All we need to do as a nation is to ween ourselves from over-seas oil.  Here are four simple steps, go tell your elected officials to start getting serious. 

1) Prominently increasing North American energy supplies, thereby increasing energy security (technologies include frontier hydrocarbon technologies such as gasification, including hydrogen production; gas-to-liquids; tar sands, oil sands, and other heavy crude extractive and processing technologies)

2) Providing additional nonhydrocarbon supply options (ethanol1, biodiesel, wind and solar)

3) Moving towards globalizing a regionally limited natural-gas market to reduce risks associated with supply and price (LNG)

4) Reducing emissions of greenhouse gases (new emission-free supplies such as nuclear, wind, solar; more efficient end-use technologies such as hydrogen fuel cells and advanced technology vehicles; reduced emissions from hydrocarbon usage such as coal gasification, cogeneration and deployment of CO2 capture and sequestration technologies and strategies).

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Mercedes, Smart to Sell Electric Cars in 2010

Monday, June 23, 2008

Daimler has announced that it is jumping on the growing electric car bandwagon, with plans to roll-out a Mercedes-Benz and Smart EV in 2010.

As far as the Smart model goes, there is currently a fleet of 100 first-generation Smart electric cars running in London, and it’s a fair bet that the new cars will be at least roughly based on these.

No decision has been made regarding the price for the EV models. According to Zetsche, “That depends on whether we sell the batteries with the car or lease them. The willingness (on the part of consumers) to pay more is limited.”

read more | digg story

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Energy Independence

Sunday, June 22, 2008

Starting in June of 2008, I have relaunched z-car.com as a forum to help inform car enthusiasts about our need for energy independence.  I am interested in what alternatives we have, and how we can express our concerns to our elected officials in the government.

How can we transition to a clean, renewable energy and transportation economy?

I would like to see:

  • Policy solutions to accelerate early deployment and market development for hydrogen and fuel cell, biodiesel, and biomass-to-energy technologies
  • Research and advocacy in support of renewable hydrogen and renewable diesel, particularly from waste biomass
  • Opportunities to demonstrate and deploy hydrogen and fuel cell vehicles in tandem with hydrogen fueling infrastructure
  • Development of a standard for pure biodiesel for use as a fuel
  • Options for policy directives to convert agricultural waste into energy in a cost-effective manner
  • Government agencies, businesses and other non-profit organizations understanding the needs, merits, and pathways to the renewable fuels economy
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    Old Land Rover 107

    Saturday, June 21, 2008

    I think I need one of these…  If you have one, let me know.

    Land Rover

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