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How Cuba Survived Peak Oil
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The Transition Town Movement offers alternative thinking towards adapting to Peak Oil. Here's an interview with Hide Enomoto- who is behind the Transition Town Japan.
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Biofuels can do anything that petroleum can do, and they can do it better.
Biofuels can be made from a wide variety of plant sources, and can be used either blended with petroleum, or used by themselves without petroleum. By the varied means of production and manufacture, biofuels are by their nature antimonopolistic----it would be impossible for any one person or group of persons to every be able to control all the sources from which biofuels are made, unlike oil and coal leases.
Biofuels are well known, have been used successfully many times in the past, and match all of our current technology and infrastructure.
Peak Oil is not a problem if we begin the switch to biofuels. Peak Oil is only a problem if we do not begin the switch and ignore the problem.
Biofuels are just as good or better than petroleum as fuel. Biofuels are clean and do not contain the toxic pollutants that caused petroleum to become a fossil fuel. Biofuels are renewable and sustainable and often produce many valuable co-products along with their manufacture. For the most part, biofuels can be produced from sources that are waste products now such as wood or crop residue.
Biofuels are part of the natural carbon/energy cycle of nature---do not produce greenhouse emissions, and are naturally biodegradable and safer to handle making environmental spills or disasters far less dangerous than petroleum. Biofuels are created from life---they are not made at the expense of killing off life.
We can do everything we've always done, the way we have always done it, with technology we have right now, at very little expense-----and we can do it in a way that will benefit people, and the earth.
The only problem is, we'll end up destroying the economic, political, social, and environmental damage caused by the fossil fuel monopoly if we do.
King Coal and Big Oil------RIP.
Is THAT what we want?
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Plan for it now however you can .
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Cut back on your driving where you can. Use products made from petroleum less when ever you can. Take the money you save and invest it in companies that are working to bring biofuels to the marketplace. They are for the most part penny stocks. $100~$200 will buy you 1,000 shares. Would you turn down buying 1,000 shares of Exxon Mobil or Chevron for less that $2 a share? Well, biofuel stocks are not worth that much now it is true---but what will happen in the next ten to twenty years? Oil is finite----it WILL run out---and no one knows how much there really is. When oil runs out---whatcha gonna do? Biofuels are the only technology we have that is completely compatible with our present infrastructure.
