Reply #5: Something we need to realize: it's not only GREED that drives the focus [View All]

[Nothing Without Hope]

by the Bushies and their cronies here and in the MidEast on fossil fuels - it's also POWER OVER CITIZENS. In our current society, everyone but the independent fringe needs a source of fuels to heat their homes, run their autos, and power their machines. That means that they are subject to those who own and dispense sources of power like fuels, and that these people can charge whatever they want and have power in the world.

If every building and car can have, say, solar power and hydrogen fuel cells, people would be INDEPENDENT of such centralized sources of fuels, and the huge flow of money to the oil/coal owners and distributors would slow a great deal. Places like Saudi Arabia and Kuwait and the people like the Bushies who have sucked up to them would become much less important.

It truly IS an empire, and fuel cells and other sources of clean power that can be individually owned threaten it. No wonder the thoroughly corrupt Bushies are opposed to what is clearly the best course for the US and the world.