"Without question, the most fundamental way to improve energy security would be through gradually reducing world demand for oil by shifting to next-generation transportation fuels. While the major energy consuming countries lack oil, most are rich in other energy resources. Coal - held in abundance by the U.S., China, and India, among others - can be used to cleanly and cheaply produce methanol (a hydrogen rich fuel used by the Indy 500 and other race tracks because it is less flammable than gasoline.) Energy rich agricultural waste can be used to produce ethanol, municipal waste can be used to produce Department of Energy approved synthetic fuel. Electricity produced from nuclear, wind, solar, hydropower and clean coal technologies can move vehicles with similar performance and less pollution. Such a transition is no pipedream. Millions of flexible fuel vehicles on the road today can run on the first three fuels mentioned. Rechargeable electric vehicles with auxiliary fuel tanks (to overcome the range limit issues of pure electric vehicles) are already in the making. Infrastructure issues can be circumvented and hurdles to getting fuel cell vehicles on the road diminished by focusing on practical solutions as opposed to ideal ones and delivering cheap to produce hydrogen rich liquid fuels such as methanol and ethanol to fueling stations rather than tangling with pure hydrogen. Such a shift will not only increase energy independence for America and the free world but will also minimize the need to transport oil across the globe and thus reduce our vulnerability to an energy Pearl Harbor."
Very interesting article...thanks fer the ping...MUD
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"PLEASE REMEMBER ME"
Remember me, America, for I was once your son,
I fought and died at Valley Forge with General Washington;
I was there at Gettysburg on that tragic, tragic day.
When brother fought against brother - the blue against the grey.
I rode with Teddy Roosevelt on the charge up San Juan Hill.
Some came back to fight again - but I just lie there still.
I went to France with A.E.F. to bring the peace to you;
I was twenty-one and full of fun - I never saw twenty-two.
I am still here at Pearl Harbor since that December seventh day of infamy.
Lying silently with my shipmates on the U.S.S. Arizona at the bottom of the sea.
D-Day June 6th 1944, we hit the beaches of Normandy
And we fought uphill every inch of the way.
We routed the Germans and hurled them back,
But what a terrible price we had to pay.
I served on an U.S. submarine, the bravest of the brave,
Until a German depth charge gave us a watery grave.
I bombed the Ploesti oil fields; they blew with one big roar,
But in the attack we were hit with flack - I ll never bomb anymore.
In Korea I heard the C.O. shout We ll make it - I am sure we will.
I lost my life to try and take a spot called Pork Chop Hill.
Vietnam! Vietnam! When will we ever learn?
I am one of sixty thousand that never will return.
I left my town, my wife, my kids, my home, so cozy and warm;
I was killed in a scud attack in a war called Desert Storm!
And so in my eternity my thoughts are all for thee,
I ll never forget my America....
I pray she remembers me.
-John Dirusso
World War II U.S. Air Force - Combat Veteran