ENERGY IS REALLY A WEAPON

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I see an opportunity for Mr. Obama to make a real mark on our future. We need a clean, low cost, multiuse, storable, plentiful, reusable energy source now! One that will create good jobs and improve our standard of living. Everything in our life uses energy in one form or another. Lowcost energy would reduce the cost of everything!!!

I hear you saying, come on, Bob. That is a dream. No such energy source exists!

My answer is that it does exist. It is hydrogen. We get it from water and other sources. It can be burned in a heating system, or pass through a fuel cell to generate electricity. Even internal combustion vehicles can run on it and also jet engines. When we use it we get water, which we can use over and over. There is no other fuel in the world that once you use it with a little energy. You can get it back again!

If we believe in this country we most think for this country. It may sound selfish but we must come first. We must realize that terrorism is only part of the war we are fighting. Energy is the key to our way of life. Without it our economy stops. It affects everyone's life in a very profound way. It is being used by our enemies as a weapon against us. Maybe the term enemies could be replaced by “countries looking out for their own interest.

We should not be asked to reduce our energy use. We should develop a low-cost, abundant fuel that will allow us to do whatever we want to do. Drive whatever we want to drive. Fly whatever we want to fly. Have a powerful car if you want one.

We have the technology. It has existed for years. I believe its development has been blocked by what I call the oil damn. And yes, I mean damn. If hydrogen were online now, those oil rigs would be rusting away.

China has 2 billion people all wanting to drive SUVS. If we include India the total is about 3 1/2 billion. The energy requirement for the total of 3 1/2 billion people has already surpassed ours. We are only 310 million people.

We are told, it is a sin for 310 million people to be using so much of the world's energy. I say, that is what made us great. The trick is to use our own energy. These multi-national energy companies have got to go back to the 50s and start exporting our energy to the world again. When we start exporting energy the jobs will be here. The world population is growing and developing countries are going to need energy.

Hillary Clinton has just concluded a major arms deal with India. It is the biggest in the history of the world. That means jobs in this country. A little known fact about the deal is the two atomic reactors American companies get to build in India. General Electric is one of those companies. We have not built a new reactor in this country in 30 years. The rest of the world is moving right on past us. There are thousands of them being built all over the world. Our own Navy has hundreds of them all classified.

China is now our greatest competitor for the world’s energy and is aggressively pursuing more energy. If we don’t use our technology and work hard to get energy independent as soon as possible we could be facing a real disaster. It is like an invasion with no one firing a shot. It is a national emergency.

Our elected officials are supposed to represent us not just their own reelection. State projects, such as bridges to nowhere or highways that go to the same place, are fine when it comes to getting reelected but won’t do very well without the energy to use them. I see grand medical plans being developed. The Cap & Trade program being pushed forward at lightning speed.

If I owned an oil company I would be pushing this bill as hard as I could. Carbon Credits being sold on the stock exchange guarantees that every drop of oil will be squeezed out of the ground before we go to something as practical as hydrogen.

I have this practice of giving everything the grand kids test. What kind of a country would you like to leave behind for them to live in? What is worth them fighting and dying for? Energy is an item that meets this test. However, I would rather spend tax money now to develop alternate energy sources so our grandchildren don’t have to die latter trying to defend someone else’s oil well. That will be the end result, if we don't develop an alternate fuel source now.

I realize our government has said we are not in Iraq for oil. I for one hope we are. We have competition from the rest of the world to obtain the oil that we need to move forward with our life style. China has made deals with Cuba, Bolivia and Venezuela.

Those tankers that presently cross the ocean carrying LP and LNG should be going the other way, carrying hydrogen.

We think Communism died when Russia collapsed. I am sorry to tell you it is alive and well right in our hemisphere. Mexico could be next. Many of these countries, their only source of income is oil. Without us and the rest of the world using their oil they would have no income. They would be very happy if we imposed cap and trade on our selves. In fact, I believe they would rejoice.

Oil was discovered around 1850 in Pennsylvania then in Texas about 20 years later. Most homes until the Second World War ended around 1946 or 47 we used coal. We then started converting to oil. This put a drain on our oil supply. We exported the excess until the 1960s. That’s when our needs started to exceed our production. We gave them our money in exchange for their oil. The availability of oil on the world market has continued to satisfy our needs since then. It is only recently that world demand has started to approach ours. Our push to industrialize the world has created our own monster. Now the proposal is to return to cool again.

Those of you that have read my other Blogs know I keep mentioning the two billion Chinese waiting to drive cars. They are developing and industrialized economy and we are helping them do it. Our politicians keep telling us about the great business opportunity they represent yet the trade imbalance continues to grow.

The price of gas at the pump will continue to go up and down. When it is up the public will complain and when it goes down the furor will stop. It is hardly noticed that the average price never goes down.

It is easy to blame the oil companies for price fixing until you look at the big picture. Oil is getting harder to obtain. It is costing more to find and obtain. The equipment necessary gets more and more costly. The only area of the world where it continues to be economical to pump oil is the Middle East, an area that is politically unstable. There is also transportation costs involved in getting it here. This is a region that doesn't like us much.

Shipping companies are building larger and larger tankers. Where they sail is not important. They will go to the highest bidder. We are fighting a war in Iraq and our people are dying. All the rest of the world has to do is sit back and wait for us to leave then buy the oil.

I am not so naive that I believe that becoming energy independent will make the world leave us alone. To the contrary, if we don’t maintain an aggressive posture many of the leaders, especially in the Middle East will look on it as a sign of weakness. The old term “Paper Tiger” comes to mind.

It is difficult to understand an ego that believes that he or she should run the world, but they keep popping up. I will be 75 this June and for my whole life they just keep coming. I see no reason to believe, in anything like a foreseeable future, it will stop.

The USA being energy independence will take a very powerful weapon out of their hands, our money. We build stealth aircraft and spend billions for the development. It is time to put energy in the same category. It is a weapon. We should think of it that way. If we obtain it from others. They can use our money against us.

If we are independent, we will take the money out of their hands that they are using to kill our soldiers. Instead of guns and planes, we should be investing in hydrogen. It affects every man woman and child in the USA. If you think 9/11 was bad this could be worse.

I disagree with the statement that all democracies are peaceful. It depends on who is elected. Take a look a Venezuela, They have and are making deals with China.

More than half off South America is colored red or at least pink. Next is Central America the same thing is happening there. Communism has a good chance in Mexico.

We can replace many things that we now get from others but energy is not one of them. Unless we act now it will become our biggest problem. Why wait for a preemptive strike. Our energy supply is under attack. It is time to strike back before it becomes a full-fledged war!!!! The Roman Empire collapsed because they started relining on others. We are in the same trap.

We must develop hydrogen. It is the fuel of the future. When everything else runs out hydrogen will be there. This proposal for carbon credits being sold on the stock market is ridiculous. It will hold up the development of hydrogen. Who will put money into a new fuel source after they have paid for the carbon credits?

If man is causing global warming. It makes no sense to allow him to purchase credits. That allowed them to keep on producing CO2. Let’s stop it completely. Hydrogen is a multiuse fuel. There is nothing that man is presently driving flying in or using on the water that can use hydrogen as a fuel.

Energy base of our survival is being taken away by others. We can’t just sit around and wait. It is time for action. The new movement to clean up natural gas by removing CO2 from it is only a halfway measure. The question is, where we put the CO2 we took out of it. Right now it is being dumped into the ocean. Hydrogen use will add water to the ocean, not carbolic acid.

Mr. Obama keeps talking about clean coal. This approach is not practical, and even if it was. Why should we do it when there is another fuel that we don't have to make clean? He also does not consider where the coal will come from. We have it in the ground in the Midwest that is true. Do we really want it strip mined? Those giant ugly gashes in the ground don't need to be there.

Putting money into clean coal is a waste and does not solve the problem. At present, it does not exist. The technology to produce hydrogen does exist. NASA uses it all the time. Let's solve the whole problem and take the leap to hydrogen. It is the most abundant element in the universe. We have lots of natural gas pipelines already in the ground. They can be converted easily. There are some programs out there right now that are playing around with hydrogen. But in less direction comes from the White House, the way John Kennedy did when we went to the moon. It will not go forward to many people have too much money invested in oil.

A total hydrogen production system could be sold to others. They will soon be facing the same thing that we are right now. Carbon-based fuels are running out. It may not be in our lifetime, but it will happen. So let's jump ahead and stop using them now. No carbon credits, they will stop the development of a truly clean fuel.

We need atomic power to develop the hydrogen, and electricity. As I stated above, the hydrogen is a multiuse fuel, but best of all. It is clean. Even our lawn mowers can use it. The exhaust will water the grass.

With a system like this in place, we will be energy independent. We can no longer be threatened. We need energy to grow and energy to live. Clean energy is the best. If you don't believe in global warming just drive behind a bus in the city. You will be for clean air. If you want to have a big heavy vehicle, no one will care as long as you can pay for it.

Energy really is a weapon. A very useful weapon when it is in our hands. No more stealth bombers let's develop hydrogen. When they don't have our money it will do more damage than any bomber. Let's declare it a weapon and put it online now. It is a war that we are in, and hydrogen is a unique weapon, but it will make us win it.

That’s my thoughts. What do you think?

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