The New Atlantis - The Hydrogen Hoax - Robert Zubrin

[madrchsod]

http://www.thenewatlantis.com/archive/15/zubrin.htm

http://www.boingboing.net/2007/02/08/false_promise_of_the.html
Boing Boing: False promise of the hydrogen age


"By simply exposing the oil cartel to competition from such alternative fuel sources, we could impose a powerful constraint on its ability to run up prices. Combined with an unrelenting tariff policy favoring alcohol over imported oil, we could destroy OPEC completely, and effectively redirect over $600 billion per year that is now going to the treasury of terrorism to the global agricultural and mining sectors. Instead of sending our money to the Islamists to spread fanatical ideology, we could give our business to the world’s farmers, coal miners, and other people who actually work for a living. Instead of selling off blocks of stock in Western media companies to Saudi princes, we could be selling tractors to Honduras. Instead of funding terrorism, we could be using our energy dollars to finance world development. That’s what a serious energy policy would look like."

[sam sarrha]

1. we could be free of forign oil with agro hemp oil.. or just using AMSOIL with 1/4 million mile oil

oil changes.. and you get over a milion miles on your engine.. it is a non carbon chain oil, it has a flash piont of 980*F

[Porcupine]

2. We don't get to keep burning fossile fuels.

If we do we are killing our children. That was the point of this article: Game Over On Global Warming? on DU the other day. http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=115&topic_id=81711&mesg_id=81711

"To stabilize atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide — the primary contributor to global warming — CO2 emissions would have to drop 70% to 80%, said Richard Somerville, a theoretical meteorologist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla. Such a reduction would bring emissions into equilibrium with the planet's ability to absorb carbon dioxide. The last time the planet was in balance was more than 150 years ago, before the widespread use of coal and steam engines."

We have to shut everything down but food production and efficiency efforts or we cook off the atmosphere. It sucks but it appears to be the case.