JPF Home Page Forums General Messages Brian Austin Whitney Blog Wednesday, June 11th, 2008

Hi Folks,

I was watching some info on the various alternative fuels out there and one report stated that it took 146K gallons of water to make 1 gallon of Corn Ethanol. Then they stated that if we used every piece of corn grown in the entire USA that it would only replace 4% of the gas we use. And if you added all the Soybeans as well, it would still be under 10%. So why are we wasting our time with that? The cost of corn has risen so much that it's more expensive, even at todays gas prices, to use corn anyway. And now our food costs way more. It's spiraling.

They also said to replace the power plants with solar, we'd have to cover the entire surface of the state of Arizona with panels to replace the power plants.

So what the hell should we do? Here's my crazy idea:

1. We add $5 dollars a gallon in taxes starting immediately. That would move us up towards the UK in terms of cost per gallon.

2. That will cause us to use a lot less gas immediately, and it will cause prices to actually drop due to less demand. In addition, the futures/speculation market will crash and all those assholes who have artificially caused gas prices to go up will be financially hosed. (A side benefit).

3. We will take part of that tax money and immediately start a massive program to build an entire infrastructure of Electric and Hydrogen filling stations. They have replacement battery systems and self generating Hydrogen power plants on site. This would make it possible to drive electric cars anywhere full time with use of any gas.

4. We will take the rest of the tax money and subsidize the cost of new electric vehicles to make them so cheap that the production numbers/sales will be massive, also lowering the cost due to economy of scale. We will even offer programs to folks to turn in their gas cars for recycling for additional credits and we'll offer additional tax credits so that the purchase of these reduced priced electric and hydrogen cars are tax write offs.

5. The massive need to build these vehicles and process the recycling and build the infrastructure will create a record number of new jobs and will turn our American auto companies into the most profitable and powerful in the world once again. Meanwhile, with the demand for oil continuing to plummet, we will see airlines much healthier due to falling fuel prices.

6. To create all this needed electricity and wean off of coal as well as natural gas and the remaining oil needed, we will build new nuclear power plants across America. Technology has improved dramatically over the 30 years since we build any of these and they are incredibly safe. Once we have Nuke plants on line making the electricity we need, we will be almost 100% off of both coal and oil. Our air will be clean. The global warming crises will be over. Our folks can drive quiet cars reducing noise polution (which is no small benefit) and our car companies, due to economy of scale, will sell their cars world wide helping us balance the trade deficits we have. We can also shut down the off shore oil wells along our coasts in across the country. We can use those resources to build and maintain wind power and solar power strategies.

7. This will effectively also solve our national security problems. Guess who we will send back to the stone age? All of our Middle Eastern enemies who rely on oil sales to fund their terrorist activities. Oil will be nearly worthless and soon enough those oil powers who have held the world hostage will have to come begging to us for our help again.

Would $10 dollar a gallow for gas hurt? Yes. For about 2 years, it will hurt us a lot. But after that, we will regain our independence, clean up our air and water and land, put people back to work, significantly improve the quality of city life, put our entire auto industry back into power world wide and end the entire global warming issue almost overnight.

So what do you all think? I'd love to hear your thoughts!

Brian