Oil Consumers Puppets on a String

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February 22, 2016

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by Mike Bryan (Ethanol Producer Magazine) With the technology we have today, it’s a disgrace that we still largely depend on oil as our main source of energy, writes Mike Bryan. … The oil industry is so desperate to hold on to the last remaining vestiges of an energy source that is fast becoming a relic in its own right, that it will sacrifice anything—including national security—to save itself.

Diminishing the importance of renewable energy based on finding more sources of domestic oil, is like touting the discovery of a more deadly nuclear weapon rather than finding a peaceful solution to conflict. Oil has powered the world for generations, but, in truth, it has killed more people in the process than all the American wars combined.

With the technology we have today, it’s a disgrace that we still largely depend on oil as our main source of energy. The only reasons we continue do so, is because it is cheap, available and the infrastructure is well-established. One might argue that those are good reasons to continue, until you examine the real cost of oil and the availability of cleaner, more dependable and, in some cases, cheaper alternatives.

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It doesn’t need to be this way. We can be in control. We have the resources, the technology and the capability to actually control our energy destiny. It’s time to tell the puppet master that we are taking over. Oil benefits small pockets of our economy and creates the need for large-scale transportation infrastructure changes, which generate even more pollution. Renewable energy on the other hand is diverse, it can be spread across the entire country, benefiting large swaths of the population, thus minimizing transportation demands.

In the final analysis, nature will always return to the default position, and when the oil wells of today are nothing more than rusted relics of a polluted past, nature will still be producing clean, dependable, healthy energy. READ MORE

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