Give Me Energy Independence or Give Me Death.

The International Institute of Nonviolence

News&Opinion

By: Rev. Jermano

Identifying our problems is the first step to seeing where we are going as a people in the world. We hope for the best for each other, and use politics as a means to convey choices we have in our countries but how is it that foreign countries to our own homeland become slaves for our upkeep?  In identifying the major problem the world faces is energy independence. We just do not have it yet. It is still only being recognized and what to do. Lot's of people can't even read or write in the world, let alone use a computer and have the electricity to run it.

We have seen the US markets hit harder than the WTC on 911 and things are still not really looking up. They have mortgaged our future by bailing out banks, or the said rescue, to a tune of a trillion bucks...But its is just added debt. Where are we going to come up with the bucks to pay off the huge American debt?

Certainly home values are not going to come to the rescue, and there are no real major inventions to mass produce around the world such as the computer revolution..and the space program expends more money than what it produces. Are we doomed to a forever debt, that not only affects the US first but chains the rest of the world to it? When the US falls so does the rest of the world?

It all boils down to energy independence. We are all reliant to other countries for our energy. The main energy givers are

• Saudi Arabia (262 billion barrels)
• Canada (179)
• Iran (126)
• Iraq (115)
• Kuwait (102)
• United Arab Emirates (98)
• Venezuela (77)
• Russia (60)
• Libya (39)
• Nigeria (35)

While the biggest energy users are:

• United States (11.8 million barrels per day)
• Japan (5.3)
• China (2.9)
• Germany (2.5)
• South Korea (2.1)
• France (2.0)
• Italy (1.7)
• Spain (1.6)
• India (1.5)
• Taiwan (1.0)

http://internationaltrade.suite101.com/article.cfm/top_ten_oil_countries

This does not take into consideration to how many more countries are in the world, who do not have energy independence. Would you think it is more than a US problem? How is it the US always makes us feel if they go down so must the rest of the world?

On the contray if we supported Energy Independence for all countries in the world the snowball effect would not happen. If the US or any economy acquired the blues the rest of the world need not suffer its deadly grasp.

What is that energy resource? The sun? The Wind? Oil? No I am certain. It takes more energy to make solar panels or paint and the sun  doesn't shine at night, nor does the wind blow all the time. We know Oil is being sucked up quicker than a Frosty Dad's Root-beer, and what then?

The world encompasses all countries, and at the center of the earth is a very huge energy resource, we tend to ignore. That energy is geothermal. We can drill anywhere in the world to acquire geothermal energy. We need not drill to the center of the earth, because in reality it would be too hot. We do go down far enough to get the radiant heat seeping upward, to sustain a circulation of water to create steam for powering electric turbines.

There it is! Geo-Independence 24-7 energy resource that can make power for each country. We need only attach a line to the current electric grid....instead of erecting cumbersome Windbins, or an array of Solar Panels across millions of peoples homes. Think of the expense to those idiotic ideas to make Solar and Wind viable. It just makes no sense when the expense to drill for Geothermal is more favorable.

Energy Independence is achieved, and the threats of price hikes, or military invasions eliminated. Geothermal can support electric car transportation and trainlines.. Countries can set the electric rates to their own choosing, while benefiting everyone instead of only the elite capitalist who keep our nose to their agenda instead of our own.

How about supporting Geo Independence for us all in the world?

Rev. Jermano