Gotta Have More Oil
Gotta Have More Oil Or We Will All Be Riding Bicycles
I was listening to public radio. The anchor interviewed a miner, union man from northern Minnesota was asked who he supported for president. He said his Daddy was a miner and union man too who would have voted democratic, but the young miner himself was voting for Mcain. He trotted out the old we gotta have more oil chestnut. “We gotta have more oil or we’ll all be riding bicycles.”
When I was a kid in the 50’s I recall my uncle repeating that. We gotta have more oil, over and over.
I believe what leadership is, is seeing the way ahead. I believe Obama is the leader who has the courage to try. Folks will follow when they see a protocol, know what will work.
Many concrete thinkers say we gotta have more oil, other wise it won’t be like it has always been. We don’t have more oil. I am not interested in the dregs. They are dirty and expensive. Peak oil and global warming, the end of the economy as we know it is upon us. Has been for a half a century.
Mistake it is, to spend our time and capitol drilling for more oil. Doing so makes the world dirty, unsustainable. If we have more oil people keep driving gas guzzlers. We can run the tapes over and over keep living the same day over and over until we get it right, like in the movie Ground Hog Day, we can do this for a few years more, but some time we gotta awake to a new day.
What are the young folks thinking for their future, and now that we have used up most of the oil, how can we help them for their future? Conservation for now. Us urban folks could drive bicycles if it was safer and if we could stop for a shower at the health club near work. The folks in the sticks are going to have to have vehicles. My 2008 Ford Focus has a cool readout that will tell me my average MPG. My son’s 94 Caddy has the same thing. Apparently luxury car drivers have had this devise for a while. I enjoy using the gadget, driving slower and with slower starts and stops, reminds me of my youth in the 70’s during the oil crisis when we’d milk every tankful of gas for as much as we could. (We had a 55 mile and hour speed limit nationwide, we’d start slow, coast down hills.)
We will need to try new innovation asap. Fortunes will be made and lost. This innovation could have been done privately before the mortgage and credit crunches. Corporate welfare and obscene profits do not seem to have been spent on innovation. It will have to be the government who will have to invest in innovation now.
There is a guy in California who drives an electric car. He has a solar panel on his roof to charge that car. He had to develop this technology, convert the car himself because he couldn’t buy one. I tried to find an electric car before we bought the Ford Focus. There is an electric car being made, but it is made for the carriage trade. (Costs, 60-90,000. Henry Ford made us all think affordable cars were a birthright when the Ford Company made a model T. Then the government built roads. Sorry, we are going to need an electric car that costs under 20,000 to keep those roads up.)
Solar panels on all of our parking lots, provide shade, lower temperature make electricity and catch runoff. (I am a hydrology watcher, live by an urban river and hope to use technology to return the hydrology of rivers and watersheds to healthy.) A solar panel on every roof (Including the White house), wind generation stations on every breezy corner (with technology to stop the turbines so as not to hurt birds or kids), grass to garden technology, healthy ecosystems.
There are lots of Yada Yadas. Every wild eyed visionary has a plan. Lets get to it before the baby boomers get too old to help.
BTW experience in governing the nation might be useful, but youth and stamina will be more important, this ball game is gonna mix it up, because we all need to do this together. We are all gonna have to let some of our favorite beliefs go, work together. I hope we have learned how to be good to each other. Gentleman, ladies, folks, start your engines.
Fans of learning by doing, this is time to shine. Institutionalizing it all will have it’s place, but the institutions cannot keep up, get intrenched. The question of our time will be for the institutionalizers to shake hands with the innovators. Good thing we all have computers and the internet to keep in touch.
I was listening to public radio. The anchor interviewed a miner, union man from northern Minnesota was asked who he supported for president. He said his Daddy was a miner and union man too who would have voted democratic, but the young miner himself was voting for Mcain. He trotted out the old we gotta have more oil chestnut. “We gotta have more oil or we’ll all be riding bicycles.”
When I was a kid in the 50’s I recall my uncle repeating that. We gotta have more oil, over and over.
I believe what leadership is, is seeing the way ahead. I believe Obama is the leader who has the courage to try. Folks will follow when they see a protocol, know what will work.
Many concrete thinkers say we gotta have more oil, other wise it won’t be like it has always been. We don’t have more oil. I am not interested in the dregs. They are dirty and expensive. Peak oil and global warming, the end of the economy as we know it is upon us. Has been for a half a century.
Mistake it is, to spend our time and capitol drilling for more oil. Doing so makes the world dirty, unsustainable. If we have more oil people keep driving gas guzzlers. We can run the tapes over and over keep living the same day over and over until we get it right, like in the movie Ground Hog Day, we can do this for a few years more, but some time we gotta awake to a new day.
What are the young folks thinking for their future, and now that we have used up most of the oil, how can we help them for their future? Conservation for now. Us urban folks could drive bicycles if it was safer and if we could stop for a shower at the health club near work. The folks in the sticks are going to have to have vehicles. My 2008 Ford Focus has a cool readout that will tell me my average MPG. My son’s 94 Caddy has the same thing. Apparently luxury car drivers have had this devise for a while. I enjoy using the gadget, driving slower and with slower starts and stops, reminds me of my youth in the 70’s during the oil crisis when we’d milk every tankful of gas for as much as we could. (We had a 55 mile and hour speed limit nationwide, we’d start slow, coast down hills.)
We will need to try new innovation asap. Fortunes will be made and lost. This innovation could have been done privately before the mortgage and credit crunches. Corporate welfare and obscene profits do not seem to have been spent on innovation. It will have to be the government who will have to invest in innovation now.
There is a guy in California who drives an electric car. He has a solar panel on his roof to charge that car. He had to develop this technology, convert the car himself because he couldn’t buy one. I tried to find an electric car before we bought the Ford Focus. There is an electric car being made, but it is made for the carriage trade. (Costs, 60-90,000. Henry Ford made us all think affordable cars were a birthright when the Ford Company made a model T. Then the government built roads. Sorry, we are going to need an electric car that costs under 20,000 to keep those roads up.)
Solar panels on all of our parking lots, provide shade, lower temperature make electricity and catch runoff. (I am a hydrology watcher, live by an urban river and hope to use technology to return the hydrology of rivers and watersheds to healthy.) A solar panel on every roof (Including the White house), wind generation stations on every breezy corner (with technology to stop the turbines so as not to hurt birds or kids), grass to garden technology, healthy ecosystems.
There are lots of Yada Yadas. Every wild eyed visionary has a plan. Lets get to it before the baby boomers get too old to help.
BTW experience in governing the nation might be useful, but youth and stamina will be more important, this ball game is gonna mix it up, because we all need to do this together. We are all gonna have to let some of our favorite beliefs go, work together. I hope we have learned how to be good to each other. Gentleman, ladies, folks, start your engines.
Fans of learning by doing, this is time to shine. Institutionalizing it all will have it’s place, but the institutions cannot keep up, get intrenched. The question of our time will be for the institutionalizers to shake hands with the innovators. Good thing we all have computers and the internet to keep in touch.
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