The enemy in the War for Endependence (energy independence that ends dependence on polluting fuels) is aggressively prosecuting the war.

The War for Endependence is a war against “cheap energy“.  Fossil fuels have been cheap energy for the last 150 years or so, and now with the short term dip in oil prices, they are even cheaper.

In July 2008, oil was $147.00 per barrel, and now in November it is about $50.00 per barrel.  Gasoline that was over $4.00 per gallon is less than $2.00 per gallon.  What seemed like a no brainer in July, driving fuel efficient vehicles, is again a quandary less than five months later.

The truth is that cheap energy is only cheap if we don’t count what the economists call “externalities”, things like greenhouse gas emissions and other pollutants.

Here is a video about the greenhouse gas externalities by Sir David Attenborough.

http://endependence.info/research/videos-c-13-v-81.html

With a world wide economic downturn and a drop in fossil fuel prices, how easy it is for people, businesses and governments to get lulled into complacency.

George Washington and the Continental Army did not surrender or return to their farms when they lost early battles in the War for Independence.

This is a good analogy for the War for Endependence.  We can’t return to our old energy wasting ways and delay our move toward alternative energy because cheap energy will put less strain on our economies.  Staying home on the farm through the winter would have put less strain on the soldiers of the Continental Army, but they decided that the battle to free themselves from British tyranny was worth the effort.

To end the tyranny of cheap energy, the steps to win the War of Endependence are:

personal action to use less energy

local action to get our communities to make sustainable energy choices

state action to enforce renewable portfolio standards for utilities and expand distributed energy programs

and federal action to stimulate growth of renewable energy industries and jobs and establish a “Manhattan Project” for energy independence.

Despite the enemy’s tactic of dropping polluting fuel energy prices, we must keep our army on the march  in the War for Endependence.

Help us win.  Sign the Declaration of Endependence at http://endependence.info/declaration .