The KSHB Chronicles
On 7 September 2008, I am to speak to KSHB TV in Kansas City about several issues.
They tell me that they want to know my energy policy, whether I believe in Global Warming, What can be done about Gasoline Prices, When I think American Troops should come home from Iraq, Where the Next Front should be in the War on Terror, Who is responsible for the mortgage crisis, and What I would do to increase jobs.
WHAT ENERGY POLICY?
We need to decide whether our goal is energy independence, or being a member of a globalist energy system. Not wanting our internal policies subject to the whims and dictates of world energy czars, I prefer energy independence.
Today the United States has no real energy policy. Unless, that is, one counts maintaining a strategic oil reserve. Everything else we talk about in the field of energy policy is tainted by globalist preservationism. The latest is carbon footprint taxation. This is nothing less than trying to backdoor the Kyoto accords into national policy.
I believe that we need to get our heads out of the nineteenth century and look forward. I believe that we should move the nation to cellulostic e95 ethanol for transportation, and that we should recognize that sugar based ethanol is only a way station on that path.
I believe that the answer to a fuel price crisis created by government manipulation of the value of the currency can not be solved by offshore or Anwar drilling. Those issues may need to be addressed, but not without developing a real energy goal and policy.
I believe that we must recognize the harm the global preservationist movement has caused, and allow the creation of more localized petroleum refining and ethanol distilling. Today the global preservationist movement has driven 90% of our refining capacity to a handful of counties in South Texas. This is a situation which makes the nation vunerable to weather disasters and man made crisis. We need a more diverse motor fuel supply system.
I believe that we need to make the licensing of small nuclear power facilities easier. We have a nuclear navy. We train nuclear technicians to run that navy without incident. That tried and tested technology could be used to power many of our smaller cities, relieving the strains on our power grid.
As alternative energy technologies become viable they should also be incorporated into our power grid. No one talks about the most viable of the alternative technologies – Tesla Geo Thermal Electrical Generation. I wonder if that is because Tesla Geo Thermal Electrical Generation frees consumers from the power grid?
Up until now we have been trying to legislatively choose between competing technologies. Perhaps the reality is that corporate welfare is rife in the energy field, and partisans of one or another of the possible technologies are just trying to protect pocketbooks. In any case, it is not within the governments ability to legislate science and technological progress. The government has no business favoring one technology over another until the purpose and goals of an agreed upon national energy policy are adopted.
