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…)

Energy independence at the personal, local and national level is possible.

At the personal level, the low hanging fruit is saving energy, or more accurately, wasting less energy.

Estimates are that Americans waste 30% of the energy they use.

Endependence thinks the way to harvest this energy saving fruit is to work together.  The Declaration of Endependence ( www.endependence.info/declaration ) is a place to share the way you save energy with your neighbors.

YOU CAN take some steps toward reducing your energy use.

YOU CAN share the ways you save energy with your neighbors.

WE CAN get involved with efforts in your community to address local energy challenges.

WE CAN vote for local, state and national politicians that do more than yack about energy independence.

WE CAN understand that energy independence takes the people, government and business working together, and the days of “cheap energy” are going, going, gone.

Here are some examples of the ways people are making their Declaration of Endependence.

http://endependence.info/declaration/dec-d-141.html

http://endependence.info/declaration/dec-d-134.html

http://endependence.info/declaration/dec-d-148.html

Tell us how you save energy, we’ll copy your great ideas.