AmerCon : war for energy

war for energy
2005.02.09

Coal production is currently followed by most citizens as an environmental issue because its
environmental attributes outweigh our understanding of coal's significance as an energy
source. Few yet realize that the world is in the decade of peak oil and that the nation's
energy basket is at risk.

Coal power plant investment is close-coupled with the nation's energy plan, which is not only
opaque, it is invisible. Only energy industry insiders and the members of Mr. Cheney's
secret energy Task Force (the National Energy Policy Development Group) know what they
are doing and plan to do. The Government Accounting Office (GAO) has now been in the
courts for several years, struggling to learn what our national energy plan is based upon.

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Most people know Mr. Rumsfeld's name and that he is the Secretary of DoD.

Few citizens know the name of the gentleman who runs the Department of Energy, or how
many nuclear power plants America has, or the status of coal plant investment, or where
electricity comes from. Yet these things are far more important and affect far more people in
more direct ways.

What people do seem to understand is that they don't want nuclear power plants or coal
power plants anywhere near them. This attitude must change because within a few decades
we are going to need to triple their current capacity.

The war for energy is the real war, and it is being ignored by most, fought inelegantly
and poorly by a few, and managed completely out of sight by a handful of corporate
insiders.

Only those in industry (and their representatives in our government) believe America is best
served by corporate planning, and that we should abolish the Department of Energy.

In fact, energy is a more fundamental and strategic requirement than intelligence, and we are
currently devoting a lot of time considering ways to reform our intelligence community.

We have a strategic national security requirement for a vigorous Department of Energy
stewarding America's interests on behalf of all Americans, in concert with a vigorous
Department of State (because the energy crisis is a worldwide crisis with incalculable
diplomatic ramifications) working with the United Nations on a worldwide energy plan.

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