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. (more…)

Do they think we’re stupid?

It is all the rage in Washington to talk about energy independence.  As a matter of fact, Presidents have been talking about it as far back as Nixon.  Watch this video to see how easy it is to use energy independence as a talking point from the right or the left.

http://endependence.info/research/videos-c-12-v-65.html

So, what has happened since 1974?  We are dependent on foreign countries for close to 70% of our transportation sector energy (oil).   All they did was talk, not act.

The spike in oil prices this past summer made for more good political palaver.

Drill, baby, drill

How can a country with 3% of the world’s oil supply that uses 25% of the world’s oil drill itself to energy independence?

Then there is “all of the above” rhetoric.  Clean coal, nuclear, wind, solar, tidal, geothermal, hybrid electric cars.

This is another political pander.  Where is conservation is this mix?  What the heck is clean coal?  Nuclear plants take years to build, we don’t have a way to dispose of the radioactive waste and they cost hundreds of millions of dollars to decommission?

Check out these sites to find out about nuclear waste storage and decommissioning issues:

http://library.thinkquest.org/17940/texts/nuclear_waste_storage/nuclear_waste_storage.html

http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/basic-ref/students/waste.html

http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/basic-ref/students/decommissioning.html

This is a chance for the people. business and government to work together to merge the two goals of energy independence and ending dependence on polluting fuel.  Solar, wind, tidal, geothermal, conservation, plant waste biofuels, electric cars.  These are the things we must do to achieve endependence.

Endependence=energy independence

that ends dependence on polluting fuels.