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We as individuals are the consumers, the ultimate power is in our hands, not the corporations.
For example, there's nothing stopping a person from not buying that next new car. Instead they can take their old car in and have it slightly modified and retrofitted with a carbon fiber gas cylinder to run on Hydrogen gas and purchase a hydrogen gas generator. Then they can spend 2 cents + for the electricity it cost to generate hydrogen equivalent in potential to that of a gallon of gasoline.
If a majority of people began doing the above... the car manufacturers would be forced to comply with the consumers fuel type demands or lose the business altogether.
So the problem is actually all of us. We set the standards ourselves by how we spend our money. We have become creatures of convenience and lost our sense of personal accountability and handed it over to others to decide for us. Now we conveniently kick back and whine and point fingers at the opposing political party and place the blames on them. Too many people think they grew up as they grew older but in fact they simply developed more creative ways to remain non-accountable children.
Who's your Daddy?
Bottom line, we reap what we sow.
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How many here have bought into the auto manufacturer scam of the new alternative energy cars? You've diligently thrown away your money and avoided researching the topic of alternative energy altogether or simply exercised convenience and supported a scam. The current alternate energy car are purposely built to dance around simple conversion to direct hydrogen with purposely over engineered nonsense to jack the vehicles price up.
Had you researched alternative energy sources, you would know Henry Ford considered a few different fuel sources for his automobiles internal combustion engine. Hydrogen gas and a couple others including modern gasoline which was a waste byproduct of the petrol industry at the time that was pumped back into the wells they extracted the crude from.
Ford selected gasoline because it was a waste product at the time, too powerful for use in any mechanical devices of the day and garbage value cheap. Hydrogen gas required more expensive methods of disassociation at the time and electricity wasn't widely available enough at the time to utilize the electrolysis method of disassociation. There was also storage obstacles to overcome with hydrogen then ie... gas tank/cylinder. Ford found hydrogen to be the best in performance of all the fuels tested. It just wasn't easy to get in those days.
The common internal combustion engine is perfectly capable of using hydrogen gas with much better performance and significant reduction in engine wear. By simply retarding the timing and porting the hydrogen gas into the intake manifold. A very simple modification. Then your car only uses hydrogen which when exposed to a spark and oxygen reunites to water vapor BANG! Steam exits the tail pipe. A fully renewable endless fuel supply that is far less expensive to produce and itself does no destruction to the environment.
You're the consumer... if you want the pipeline and the hydrocarbons released into the atmosphere, stick with spending your money conveniently.
The most powerful vote ever cast is the vote you cast when you purchase.
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I would like to believe we are capable of caring about future generations of man
Those in power aren't looking much further than next quarter's profits.
they can take their old car in and have it slightly modified and retrofitted
They can't afford a large purchase without financing, which isn't available for the retrofit.
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So they remain voluntary subjects of their masters, the central banking system and its system.
The alternative choice is to keep the old car and put those payments into savings instead.
For every excuse of convenience there's a less convenient accountable choice. Face it, self discipline is a rare commodity these days.
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Those who saved money were unwittingly profiting from the banking cartel. The cartel didn't like that and took the appropriate steps to shake them off their legs by making it no longer profitable to save money.
The pipeline will go through and it will go through because the people have already eagerly voted for it by their financial actions. The web is effective because as with all prey, they don't notice it, until they're in it. Unfortunately for people, we really have no excuse because we have brains that we would rather not use because it's not convenient to do so. It's much easier to make up an excuse than to be accountable.
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It much easier to make up an excuse than to be accountable.
It's much easier to allocate "emergency funds" to the disaster than it is to spend "preventative funds" to limit the scope of the disaster.
Look for the next President to inherit the environmental wreckage when the pipeline spills into the largest aquifer in the US -- this is more or less inevitable, because "safety" cuts the profit margin...
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Thanks, Betsy, just called Sen. Hirono's office to urge her vote against it. Really appreciated your commentary too, Rob.
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Oh the tangled webs we weave when first we practice to "receive".
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Did you realize that not building it will continue to cause more greenhouse gas emissions since transporting the oil by rail and truck is much worse for the environment than a pipeline?
Did anyone else realize that extracting oil from tar sands uses more energy than the oil releases when burned?
It's only cost-effective when oil is trading at over $100/bbl.
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@ kalakoa:
Touche.
Fracking is insanity.
Actually the expenses and environmental impact
on such things as local drinking water and other health related issues
have not been noted, much less quantified.
We'll pay the increased prices for the product in Hawaii both directly
and indirectly; that is at the pump and in taxpayer financed mitigation
for the damage that fracking does even elsewhere than Hawaii.
That's what is called corporate welfare.
Privatize the profits, socialize the costs.
Socialism for the rich in other words.
