Former Hemp Clothing Store Owner's Guide To Capping Cap & Trade

Seen through the eyes of a Kung Fu Master (which I am not) the approach to
opposing "Cap & Tax" is very flawed.

The C&P legislation bound for the Senate is the result of decades of
yellow journalism, movies, tv, radio, and video games. This is a behemoth
amount of momentum that, even if blocked now, will resurface again and
again.

So, the best strategy is not to stand in the way of this propoganda
machine, but to use this same environmental tsunami to expose it's false
masters.

Allow me to digress for a moment to give you the insight into the "other
side" you'll need to finally expose this myth. For those who are about to roll your
eyes, I assure you it's worth it to read on to the end.

I am a 29 year old vegetarian, former hemp clothing store owning, San
Francisco Bay Area Native now living in NC.

I was in the "hemp game" (not to be confused with marijuana which is the
narcotic form of the plant) from 2002-2006.

I managed to convince my parents that the college and graduate school
money set aside would be better spent on a business since the "School of
Hard Knocks" is as good as a college education.

The irony of hearing pot jokes left and right for the next four years is
that I had given up such things because I was very serious about being
both successful and advancing the cause of industrial hemp.

And when I say serious, I mean I did tons of research, went out of my way
to get a hold of such exotic items as hemp plastic, hemp concrete, and
even made the 8' x 3' store sign out of hemp particle board.

To summarize, I saw the green wave coming, and being a good little
capitalist tried to ride the wave, but was too early and by the time it
showed up I was too "burned out" by the reality of GREEN.

Saying that I changed my views along the way isn't accurate. It's better
said that vague assumptions had been replaced with solid education over
time.

There isn't enough time between now and the Senate vote for masses of
people and politicians to have all those little epiphanies necessary to
stop this legislation.

So, let me tell you about the "nail in the coffin" news that did far more
to break me from the green slumber than the realization that hemp isn't
the strongest natural fiber in the world(it's flax), and so on.

It's called Helium-3 and you owe it to yourself to watch AT LEAST the
first minute and a half of the video link below.

Helium-3 is found in abundance on all orbiting bodies that don't contain
an atmosphere such as the moon.

One metric ton of this stuff can power New York City for one year (25 tons
for the entire US annually). The "Kung Fu" aspect of it is that it
produces absolutely NO CARBON EMISSIONS meaning that even if carbon were a
threat to the climate, this fuel source solves for their entire argument
for CAP & TAX.

"On the Moon? We don't have time for Sci-Fi!" The reality is just the
opposite because the US Taxpayer has been footing the bill to the tune of
BILLION$ on Helium-3 research for over a decade.

NASA's current ORION Project which goes back to the moon in a few years
has Helium-3 as a fundamental mission objective.

You'd also be surprised to know that we have a successful test reactor in
Madison, WI and that former astronaut and former New Mexico Senator (R)
Harrison Schmidt is a lead proponent (watch the video and you'll learn a
whole lot more).

This means we'll have everything setup to solve our energy/climate issues
right around the same time Cap & Tax is supposed to finally yield
improvements to our climate after years of wreckless taxation.

So, instead of phoning/emailing your Senator telling them to "Vote NO!
Because we can't afford it!!!", you can now tell them "Vote NO! Because
we can't afford it AND we already have a solution called Helium-3 and if
you haven't heard of it you better look it up!!!"

The same'ol arguments that those opposed to CAP & TAX are only worried
about their pocket books and not their children's future goes right out
the window when Helium-3 is brought into the picture.


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Helium-3 articles:

"Mining The Moon" - Popular Mechanics (December 2006)
http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/air_space/1283056.html

"Race to the Moon for Nuclear Fuel" - Wired Magazine (October 2004)
http://www.wired.com/science/space/news/2006/12/72276

"Mining the Moon" - technologyreview.com (published by MIT Review - August
07)
http://www.technologyreview.com/Energy/19296/

"Researchers and space enthusiasts see helium-3 as the perfect fuel
source" - Space.com (June 2000)
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/helium3_000630.html

"Buzz Aldrin to NASA: U.S. Space Policy Is on the Wrong Track" - Popular
Mechanics (June 2009)
http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/air_space/4322647.html?page=2

"NASA - Why Go Back to the Moon?" -nasa.gov (January 2008)
http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/news/series/moon/why_go_back.html

"Is 'MOON's' sci-fi vision of lunar helium 3 mining based in reality?" -
Scientific American (June 2009)
http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/60-second-science/post.cfm?id=is-moons-sci-fi-vision-of-lunar-hel-2009-06-12