Philo Collins Member of Atlanta Beyond Oil
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philosofr@yahoo.com
Let's increase oil taxes $1/barrel at least next 120 months. Conserve oil, save Earth, keep money home. Energy efficiency stamps for poor.
How did you find out about Peak Oil?
Keneth Deffeyes book Hubbert's Peak, reviewed in Scientific American
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"BIBLICAL LESSONS OF NOAH, JOSEPH, MOSES and JESUS FOR TODAY: Petro-Chemical Taxes Will "Prime the Pump" for Renewable Energy By Philosofr Collins, philosofr@yahoo.com 202-393-6090 ENERGY4PEACE4HUMANITY4EVER FREE = Freedom's Renewable Energy Everywhere/everyday/everyone FREE PEACE = Freedom's Renewable Energy Everywhere/everyday/everyone for Peace, Economy, Agriculture, Compassion, Environment Harold Bloom. In "Where Is Wisdom To Be Found" ''Wisdom literature teaches us to accept natural limits.'' Wangari Muta Maathai, Kenyan Nobel Peace Prize winner, 2004, quoted in New York Times, October, 2004: "Dr. Maathai said she was not surprised that the Nobel committee was interested in focusing on environmental issues as an aspect of peace. "People are fighting over water, over food and over other natural resources," she told Norwegian television. "When our resources become scarce, we fight over them. In managing our resources and in sustainable development, we plant the seeds of peace."" "We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth... For my part, whatever anguish of the spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst; and to provide for it." - Patrick Henry "He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today." - Tryon Edwards, 1809-1894, American theologian and author of well-known quotes As petro-chemical prices generally rise, ebbing and flowing upward, and as the world's supply of petro-chemicals drains inexorably downward, an increasing number of voices are calling for higher taxes on oil and gas petro-chemicals. I believe increased petro-chemical taxes follows Biblical lessons. Preparing for the future by gradually taxing the populace has a Biblical foundation. Consider Noah and his family taxing their own labor to build the Ark, preparing in sunny weather in advance of the Flood. Joseph interpreted God's meaning of the Pharaoh's dream for seven good years followed by seven bad years - then planned to tax grain output to store up for the future. The plan worked well. Even, Joseph's father, Jacob, and his brothers, who had sold Joseph into slavery, had to come to Egypt for food during the famine. Note that the Hebrews were themselves enslaved in Egypt because of their failure to prepare in good times for the famine. We must heed these lessons to avoid our own destruction or enslavement by our own appetites for oil and gas. We need to tax oil and gas, non-renewable chemicals/fuels, now to "prime the pump" for renewable energy and recent-biologically-based chemicals. We also need to provide for mandatory interconnection to the electrical power grid based on nationwide standards, so that renewable energy producers can contribute to our distributed, hence secure, power future. Germany has mandatory connection the electrical power grid - and has seen renewable energy, particularly wind increase dramatically. Moses, with the fleeing Hebrews in the desert, accepted manna from heaven. The manna we receive from heaven -- solar photons of electricity and heat, which also produce wind and rain and growing plants, should be gratefully harvested by humanity every day, not wasted by us. Consider Jesus' parable of the talents -- the good servant multiplied the talent ten times, while the poor servant buried his talent in the ground. We are poorer servants of God's non-renewable oil, gas, coal, and uranium energy-chemical stocks. We don't just leave non-renewable chemical talents buried in the ground, we burn them to oblivion. At the end of the years the Lord comes back and finds - nothing - left from his gift of non-renewable talents to us. We should put Americans to work leading the world in developing and implements the renewable energy sources that can support thousands of years of relative world-wide peace and prosperity."
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