There is no safe haven in oil alternatives that can avoid this looming crisis. Most of them, such as natural gas, coal and uranium, are also finite and will peak and decline shortly after oil-if they are mined to the degree that would be necessary to actually replace oil as an energy source, global warming would escalate so rapidly that within a short period of time the earth would be too hot to support any life.
Most renewable sources, such as ethanol and bio-diesel, take more energy to extract and create than they generate.
If you follow the money, oil companies own the majority of these resources as well, and you can bet they’re laughing all the way to the bank.
Take corn ethanol for example. It takes almost as much oil to create as it gives; if we realistically wanted to power all the cars in America on it, more than 90 percent of the nation would have to be covered in corn.
In addition to that, it would take trillions of dollars to convert our oil-based economies to operate on such energy systems (money that we simply don’t have, what with our burgeoning national deficit and war costs), not to mention a huge increase in oil system usage, just to create the technology to make those conversions.
We might have had a hope in wind and solar energy, if they had been discovered fifty years earlier and made mandatory in building codes ever since. As it is, such systems account for less than one percent of global energy and would be ridiculously too large scale to implement-if only to power all the houses in the US. We’d have to cover every inch of California in solar panels . . . and we wouldn’t have enough energy to drive our cars, assuming every car was electric.
The only remotely possible way to keep energy levels at a comparable fraction to those with oil would be to replace oil with every single one of its alternatives in conjunction. Even then we’d need a handful of miracles-from worldwide peace and prosperity to unprecedented international collaboration. Not to mention a complete lack of interference from energy corporations.
If you’re still hopeful at all, let me remind you that water, too, will quickly become a valuable resource which will be the source of many international conflicts.
As the energy needed to transport such necessary items as food and water declines, the demand for them will brew another whole category of warfare. War in general will not only persist but escalate.
In lieu of this, the Pentagon and others have been on the march.
In 2004 the Selective Service proposed registering women, instead of only men, and extending the service age from 25 to 34.
Since any such measure would need to be presented to Congress, no forward move on the subject has occurred.
But one of the agency’s directors of public and congressional affairs noted to several news sources that the agency “has begun designing procedures for a targeted registration and draft of people with computer and language skills, in case military officials and Congress authorize it.” A retired Pentagon official and Colonel, now an author and lawyer, Ron Ray, has pointed out several key government gestures that indicate preparations for a draft, including a 20 percent increase in the “Selective Service System’s High School Registrar Program.”
The federal government is constructing several massive internment compounds in expectation of mass illegal immigration and probable masses of destructive citizens.
Friends of Liberty estimates that the numbers of these compounds across the nation approaches 800.
Many of these compounds are placed under FEMA jurisdiction. You may be reading this with some level of incredulity-but where did all the Japanese go during WWII?
America has proved without a doubt that becoming more fuel efficient has absolutely no effect whatsoever.
Within the last several years, America has increased fuel and energy efficiency by 50 percent-but because of multiplying populations and the growth of industry, fuel consumption has risen nonetheless.
Why am I still in college? Why aren’t I hunkered down in a bunker or partying on student loans?
Because of you. Because of my faith in you.
Our generation-every student attending this and every other university, every adolescent that suffered to be a customer doormat for Pizza Hut for minimum wage-stands to make a difference so profound that our actions will dictate whether humanity will survive another one hundred or one thousand years.
Out of the inevitability of violence, we stand to light a new path for mankind: one that can sustain a stable market, and also foster a strong community.
It is only by coming together as a nation and as a people, for the good and benefit of all of us, that we will rise above.