OPEC, Go Pound Sand

A Title Story From Parade Magazine

It is time for a change in our energy policy. 

Ethanol's High Price

Since 2005, U.S. energy policy has mandated that billions of gallons of corn-based ethanol be mixed into gas every year. Last year, more than $3 billion of taxpayer money was spent on subsidies to achieve that goal, and 20% of the corn crop went into making the biofuel. Now, a new U.N. report cites our emphasis on ethanol as a contributor to high food prices. Scientists also believe that an expanding “dead zone” in the Gulf of Mexico, which is killing aquatic life, is caused by increased fertilizer runoff from Corn Belt states. What’s more, “the U.S. focus on corn ethanol has taken precious financial resources away from efficiency and conservation options,” says Dulce Fernandes of the nonprofit Network for New Energy Choices. Counters Kristin Brekke of the American Coalition for Ethanol, “High oil prices, global crop shortages, speculation, and rising global demand have much more to do with food prices than ethanol does. Ethanol can significantly reduce our dependence on oil for transportation fuel

A Time For A Change In Technology

We are being held hostage by foreign interests.  As oil prices continue to go up, record profits are the norm for those associated with the oil industry. 

I have never had a problem with businesses making money.  I too am a businessman who works hard to have the rewards of providing services and solving problems.

It is simply time to move forward with technology.  Technology that is already here and available to us.  Hydrogen technology and fuel cell cars are being promoted throughout the world.  It is only a small sound bite here in the country, the USA. 

We need to make a change.  A change at the legislative level.  At our site, www.opecgopoundsand.com  , we are drafting a New Contract With America.  This contract will make our congressional leaders accountable and help them bring America into the 21st century.

A quote from Richard D. Masters from Hydrogen Commerce:

"Unless the western democracies institute agressive programs to develop renewable energy resources now, all future democratic policy will be necessity be based upon access to diminishing supplies of oil - the great majority held by Middle Eastern dictatorships.  Hence, freedom will be lost and foreign dictators will rule the west by proxy."

Western world, please, give us your thoughts.