Re: OT - Iraq photos too shocking for the main stream media to show!

In article <e2uuh5$p0v$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, sttp
<scottp1182002REMOVE@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

How feasible would it be for ANY North American to suddenly quit using oil
products? Impossible. That's the point, our complete dependance on it, and
that's what's going to be changing. I disagree with your statement that
"most every American" would support going to war for oil.

I've maintained for a number of years that if we ran just our
automobiles on hydrogen we'd have enough petroleum domestically for
everything else. How hard can that really be? How big a conversion? I
realize the energy needed to extract hydrogen (from natural gas) is
high. Why not think outside the Exxon/Conoco/Shell/BP box for a change?
For one we're surrounded by hydrogen, we drink it every day. And any
8th grade science student has extracted it from - WATER. Two electrodes
in a glass - off comes oxygen from one and hydrogen from the other.
Simple. Elegant. Why not use SOLAR to provide the power to extract, or
even (gasp) NUCLEAR?

Your statement about support for war is entirely acccurate. We are a
snivelling spoiled bunch of sycophants. We will bitch about the war and
at the same time we will bitch about the high cost of energy for our
Escalades and Denalis. It ain't the 1950's folks. They aren't kissing
our feet and thanking us for saving them from oblivion anymore. The
world we rebuilt after WWII can't stand us and in many cases the hatred
is entirely deserved (except for France).

Brazil has dual fuel vehicles. Something like 60% of the energy
consumed there is ethanol they make from domestically grown sugar. Wow!
what a concept.

The day will come not to distantly where we will be handed our asses in
a handbag if we don't wake the hell up. Gas at $5-6 a gallon might just
help us focus on the alternatives.

RP
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