Here Comes The Sun!

It's been cold this winter. So much for those who are pressing this global warming theory. I don't have the knowledge or the expertise to debate the merits of either side adequately but I sure as hell know that we just can't keep burning fossils.



Energy generation is very much an evolutionary process. Early man started with whatever he could find to burn and keep warm. Then we started burning coal - still to this day! We fished the seas after whales for their fat rendered oil. We almost killed of an entire species of mammals in the process. Then we hit oil. Black Gold, Texas Tea, the Succour of the Middle East, the nectar of the sands.



Oil was abundant and cheap. Cheap oil began our demise. Much like the juice that's needed for the addict to survive, western civilization craved this liquid. In the past week and a half the local gas prices have gone up almost twenty cents a gallon. Yet we still crave this manna.

We have spent so much more on the wars to preserve the flow of this commodity that the true price of this oil will never be affordable by the next hundred generations.

Why the madness? Greed! These interests all think about one thing, money! They profess the cost of this oil as being a cheap source of energy. But when the costs we will be faced with when the global warming cycle takes hold, the cost of the wars, the cost to clean up the environment from using this fuel the true costs are staggering and make all other forms of energy generation, solar, kinetic, Geo-thermal, and wind look cheap.

Our elective officials should look hard and make the tough choices to stop being the guardians of the Sahara and Saudi boot licks and do something right for America and the world.

All buildings have roofs. The roofs absorb and reflect the sun. So if every roof had a solar array for electric generation and panels to heat water the economies of scale to produce these alternatives would drop drastically. Set up small wind turbines in each yard and we've really begun to lower the use of oil and coal.

So just look up in the sky. It's a bird, it's a plane, no it's Solar Man!