United
States Energy Policy
The purpose and scope of this blog
is to provide a forum for those interested in the intense study of Energy
Policy. It serves to collect comments,
essays, and posts on Energy in one location to make them easier to find. It also serves to avoid clutter from other
topics.
This Energy blog is motivated by the
fact that we believe the world, especially the United States is in a severe
energy crisis. Jimmy Carter (in office, 1977-81), the 39th
President of the United States, and his energy czar, James R. Schlesinger (in
office, 1977-79) first alerted us to this crisis. Since that time, we believe that United
States Energy Policy has been nothing but a series of obfuscations, designed to
hide the truth from the American public.
In short, there is no United States Energy Policy. If we the people wish to have a United States
Energy Policy, it appears that we shall have to build it at the grassroots
level. We cannot count on the federal
government to get anything done in its present condition.
Why is this a Christian
concern? At the present time there is no
verifiable full disclosure of the facts of energy availability worldwide, or
within the United States. The reports
that do exist, may or may not be accurate: nevertheless, they are challenged
every day in public news. Our hope is
that sufficient political pressure will be generated to force an accurate and
full disclosure of the facts about energy; and silence forever the cacophony of
disinformation being bandied about in the news, as well as from many of our own
public officials.
The information we seek is very
valuable to those who presently control it.
There is every reason for a corrupt politician or corrupt government to
hide the facts in the effort to manipulate world politics. Equally, there is every motivation for
powerful businessmen to keep this information as a trade secret. Typically, such politicians and businessmen
view energy as their personal property.
That being said, we are the ones who clean up their messes, and live
with the environmental damage they cause.
We submit to you, the radical idea that energy is a set of God given
resources that belong to all the people of the world: all 7.25 billion of
them. We are not arguing for shared
ownership, we are arguing for shared disclosure, and mutually guarded
conservation.
What is at stake? Someday, much of the world’s energy supply
will be depleted, never to be recovered again.
We don’t want that day to arrive as an abrupt catastrophic shock. We want the opportunity to plan and manage
any such major energy event. We believe
that failure to manage the world’s energy supply and our responses to it will
result in massive human fatalities and hardship. We depend on energy for life. The sudden loss of energy due to storms,
works great public hardship. The
permanent loss of a major energy resource due to depletion will most likely
result in many deaths due to famine and exposure: exposure by freezing or
hypothermia in winter and heat stress or stroke in summer. Moreover, should such a catastrophe ever
occur, there will be no way to bury the dead: they will simply rot where they
fall. In the interest, love, and respect
for human life, we hope to prevent this from ever happening. This can only succeed as we all work together
to manage the problem.
This is not the sort of blog to find
new posts periodically. But when you are
looking for information on Energy, whatever we have collected will be here.[1]
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