I received a request to sign a petition to ask Congress to
allow the DOD to proceed with its alternative energy and bio-fuel
programs. The DOD has been working with
universities, scientists and entrepreneurs to develop alternative energy
sources including a real bio-fuels program from weeds, algae and other
substances (like Brazil has had for years), not ethanol from more expensive and
environmentally destructive corn grown in politically potent Iowa.
The DOD is pursuing and alternative fuels program, not
because it’s suddenly gone green and gotten an ‘environmental conscious,’ but
because most of US casualties in Iraq
and Afghanistan
are associated with fuel convoys! The
DOD wants alternatives to gas and oil to save soldiers’ lives! Secondarily, it wants to reduce US dependence
on foreign oil and the need to fight to ‘protect’ it, and also to reduce its
budget by using alternatives to the more expensive oil products.
Three excellent, rational reasons for DOD to proceed with
its alternative energy and bio-fuel programs.
So what gives with Congress? How
corrupt and broken is our political system when our elected, so-called leaders
fight the DOD and want to keep killing soldiers, depend on foreign oil, and
drive up the deficit? Who are the voters
who keep electing these people? When will
these voters start paying attention and start voting for people who are not ideological
radicals but really care about building a world that works for everyone and
everything? We are drifting lower and
lower. How low will we go? Must the nation be destroyed and many more
lives ruined before people vote differently?
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