Sunday, December 13, 2009

Global Fleecing vs Post Carbon World

Living in a Post Carbon World

I was a guest speaker this month at a Green Summit held here in Tysons Corner, Virginia featuring GREEN technologies and strategies to power our country and manage power consumption. Vendors and investors from South Korea, Denmark and other nations around the world are far ahead of introduction and adoption here in the US. Unfortunately, companies here in the US will continue to lag behind the rest of the world because the Obama administration lacks the leadership ability to draft an effective energy policy ... Uncertainty brews complacency and I don't blame US firms who choose to sit and wait.

As leaders from nations considering Global Warming legislation are meeting in Copenhagen this week amist "Climate-Gate" and the world financial crisis ... there are a few of us in this world that see a totally different scenario for 2030. Realists like me feel that the futile efforts these leaders will attempt will not make any difference to the climate but are sure to disrupt and destroy the delicate balance of the world financial situation in ways that will harm us for decades.

Despite what climatolgists will argue this week debating both the data available to us (which incidentally is less than 150 years of data) and what was destroyed ... it will make no difference at all. In fact, the relationship to the Earth's billion year timeline to the data that scientists utilize to predict the climate crisis is a tiny blip on the radar. As an example, history has recorded that there was a mini ICE AGE in Europe just 800 years ago. The Earth influenced by our place in the solar system has been shifting and changing for billions of years.

Besides, we will run out of carbon based fuels way before World Leaders will have any effect. Wow ... that's a powerful statement! So why are politicians and scientists waisting their time this week? Because enviornmentalists are convinced that the human element is the only reason for the increase in world wide CO2 levels. Behind alarmists like Al Gore they are fleecing the entire globe with flawed data. They are missing one important fact - The world has reached PEAK OIL this year and we are headed to the other side of the curve to ZERO CRUDE in our childrens life time.

Zero Crude in 2030

Matthew Simmons, David Heinberg and others have been warning our leaders for over a decade that world consumption and the depletion of know reserves is revealing a serious world-wide crisis ... ZERO CRUDE. The end of carbon fuels is at its peak and well informed Geologists are predicting an end to oil, gas and other non-renewable energy sources in less than two decades. China and India are acellerating the depletion and even with new discoveries ... incresed consumption will out-pace reserves. We are running out! The Century of cheap oil is in the Twilight of its lifespan on earth.

Change Direction Now!

President Obama and leaders on Capitol Hill have no long-term energy policy that will ensure that the US will not suffer serious consequences during our childrens lifetime. Geologists predict that even if we act today to adopt new "Green Energy" and take a path towards "Energy Independence" that there are still difficult and paniful consequences ahead ... and the longer we wait to change our habits ... the more painful the transition will be.
Cap and Trade is not that solution. Placing financial burdens on Businesses will only transfer the burden to the US taxpayer ... who are already in financial trouble. Creating another costly government program to regulate carbon emmissions is down right stupidity.

What can we do?

Adopt financial incentives and tax breaks for firms who are developing alternative energy solutions for consumers to adopt immediately.
Write local, regional and national legislation that will encourage consumers to buy wind, solar, hydro, geo-termal solutions and send the excess power back to the grid. Do not tax the power generated or place additional taxation to adopt these technologies.
Finance and build a new smart grid and give incentives to businesses who adopt "smart-power" buildings that regulate the use of power.
Cut government spending by 20% and the massive growth of government by reducing the size of every agency by 20%.
Stop building cars that run on oil and gas. Allow American auto makers one year without paying tax ... if they introduce cars that run on Hydrogen, Bio Fuels or Electricity.
Make every trip count and conserve energy. Stop running to the store 10 miles away to pick-up a stick of butter.

Zero Crude before Global Warming

Forget about Global Warming and Polar Bears ... the Bears will learn to adapt - they have for centuries. What we need to do is work very hard to wean ourselves off of OIL. This is a challenging yet realistic goal to set for America. We should abandon the heritic philosophies proposed by Former Vice President Al Gore and the alarmists who blindly follow the fleecing of the world and begin to plan and adopt a long term energy strategy immediately. To do so will lessen the burden for our children ... and in the long run advance the possibility to achieve energy independence from foreign governments that now dictate world policy with the price of a barrel of oil.
If we ran out of oil today ... can you imagine the chaos? No gas to get to work. No JetA to fuel our planes. A global crisis beyond comprehension.
On the other hand if we begin to plan for the future and adopt Wind, Solar, Hydro and other forms of energy and take the lead creating, adopting and selling these technologies to the world ... we would climb out of this financial crisis in short order and create a safer world for our children.

And Mr. Gore ... give back the Oscar!

Gary DeMoss
In My Right Mind

Thursday, December 10, 2009

Congress = Unlimted Debt

Did you know that Congress wants to raise the current national debt ceiling Twenty Percent to $14 Trillion Dollars?

Listen closely ... they will get their way, one way or another.

While most of the citizens of this country are either unemployed, struggling to pay their mortgages and/or busy managing their daily expenditures and cutting back on spending ... your elected officials are busy spending more money they don't have and advocating adding a whopping twenty percent to the deficit to finance their runaway spending spree.

And how do they plan to do this?

Right under our noses and despite oposition from Americans from both sides of the isle. The emergency they will create is that they will tell us that the US Government will stop operating if they don't act and raise the deficit. They will also frame it in a way so that if they don't get their way ... "the troops won't have enough money to wage war against terrorism." Sound familiar? Their plan is to pass it right away so that it happens well in advance of Mid-Term Elections during the Fall of 2010 so that we forget the Democrats increased the deficit by $4 Trillion dollars in less than a year. Wow! Thats double the spending during the Bush and Clinton Presidency's combined.

When you and I can't afford to pay our expenses ... we cut back, only spend our available resources on neccessities and many of us struggle with those issues every day. We can't just print more money that we don't have.

So why does Congress continue to spend and not cut back?

Because we continue to let it happen. Democrats (the majority in Congress) continue to spend at an alarming rate. In fact they are spending at a rate of $120 Billion per month. Republicans are at least united in their opposition ... but they can't end the madness as the minority. The Congress and the Senate can do whatever they please ... and they will despite public opinion and against the opposition of Fiscal Conservatives.

What can we do?

In 2010 and 2012 ... if we are still solvent ... CLEAN HOUSE!
ELECT ALL NEW CANDIDATES AND GET THE SCOUNDRELS OUT!

Gary DeMoss
IN MY RIGHT MIND

Health Care at any Cost

What's the rush?

The Senate is now debating health care legislation that will affect every American (and those here illegally) so why rush this through the Congress and the Senate just to pass a new Two Trillion Dollar entitlement program run by the US Government?

Just wait a cotton pickin minute!

First I would argue that the government doesn't have the greatest reputation with previous entitlement programs ... like Medicare that is broke and already fractured. Now there is dicussion that Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi are backing off of the "Public Option" in favor of expanding Medicare, adding another 40 Million uninsured and offering a "non-profit" Insurance Plan ... which will ultimately raise premiums for the 80% of Americans that pay for their own insurance and the 60% of Americans that don't want to change anything! Thank you very much keep the Change!

So why in the face of mounting opposition and adding another 10% or Two Trillion Dollars to the Twelve Trillion Dollar deficit ... would the Congress and Senate trudge onward? And by the way ... a 2 Trillion dollar plan today will end up 10 Trillion in four years doubling the current deficit.

Are leaders on Capitol  Hill not listening to the American Public and the constituients who elected them? You bet!
Are there deals and private interest groups benefiting from the close door sessions? You better beleive it!
Should we all be concerned? Yes ... all of us!

I don't dispute that there are problems with the Health Care System. But do we want the government in control? No ... we do not.
What can and should be done?

Pass sweeping tort reform ... that strangles all Doctors and raises your premiums.
Regulate the relationship between large Insurance Companies and Doctors Groups and bring back regional small doctor-owned health care ... eliminating the middle man.
End uneccesaary tests
Wipe out fraud in the Medicare System already in place.
Add common sense end-of-life solutions and prevent doctors who abuse patients wishes.
Require a Living Will for every American with every Drivers License
Close the borders and send Illegal Aliens back home.

And require transparency in Government.
And hold Obama to his word.
He promised live meetings on CSPAN during this process. Have you seen the pictures of closed door sessions? Wouldn't you like to know how they plan to spend our childrens money?

And in 2010 ... Clean House.
End the terms of every single Senator and Congressman and give new candidates with fresh ideas and an honest agenda a chance to make real "CHANGE"

Gary DeMoss
In My Right Mind