Train to Nowhere
November 17, 2019Vinegar
January 2, 2020Food Chain Radio Show #1211
Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist
Alcohol Fuel
Local Fuel from Local Waste
Guest: Dave Blume, Author, Alcohol Can Be A Gas
The United States has become energy independent by fracking oil loose from the earth that has held it captive for millennia.
This fracking has given us the ability to thumb our noses at those who have an abundance of petroleum still in the ground and continue living on daily bread trucked in from thousands of miles away.
But there is a certain amount of whistling-past-the-grave to this newly found ability to frack our way to energy independence. We all know that, sooner or later, we are going to frack our way right back into energy dependence, and we will do so with an economy that has become ever more dependent on petroleum.
It would seem that the real smart thing for we-the-people to do would be to figure out now how to become independent of the need for petroleum.
Obviously, there are those who do not want us to become independent. They prefer we remain dependent on them. And given how much money they make on our dependence on them, they will likely go to great lengths to hold us captive.
So, how to we become energy independent when they will do everything they can to keep us energy dependent.
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