I dream of a post oil dependent society....

[LeftHander]

How do we get there?

We ALL (even freeps) know oil is a finite resource, quickly being depleted. Are we going to let oil companies and the rich destroy this nation with their "bunker" mentality?

They will let this nation and it's people rot if it means protecting their families for two or three generations. As the oil gets scarce they will "bunker" down as they let the rest of the world suffer. Make no mistake about it, the bunkering regressionists will sacrifice millions of lives to protect the consumer culture we now have.

We've got to totally change the dialog in this country from one of who gets rich from what oil to how to we change society to get to a fossil fuel free culture.

A Post Oil Dependent Society IS the future...maybe not in our lifetime but a reality in a few generations.

I for one don't want to saddle future generations of mine with the problems I, my parents and the neocons helped create.

You want fear....there is no terror greater than the thought of continuing in the direction we are headed right now. More and more poor, with one dominant militaristic one-party theocracy in control scrambling to gain control over a ever decreasing resource by any means.

That is more frightening than any "terror threat".

Say it with me....

POST OIL DEPENDANT SOCIETY

Renewable resources
Green Living
Hydrogen
Cheap Solar Power
Biomass Fuels (yeasts, agricultural by products)
Biodeisel
Local Economies based on sustainable localized agriculture including HEMP
Public control and access of media and airwaves
replace the consumer culture with a producer culture
True Democracy and Campaign Finance reform
Universal Health care
Free education
Redistribution of Wealth
Ban on ALL WMDS everywhere, end the culture of violence.
Spend money on building up people not killing and incarcerating them
tightening all emissions and environmental standards with no loopholes
End the stranglehold corporations have on our society and government.

Lots of opportunities for creative thought and policy ideas. Lets start thinking like human beings with a future instead of victims with no hope.

Peace on Earth,
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from a progressive Democrat.

[Kolesar]

1. Zero-net-energy houses in the South

Or close to it. With thermal mass and southern windows, they could largely heat themselves. They ought to have solar hot water heaters, too.

[savemefromdumbya]

2. we'll have to

We need to get windpower, solar and hydro going NOW

[Odin2005]

3. Don't forget Nuclear....

...and, hopefully, we'll have fusion energy soon.

[savemefromdumbya]

6. not keen on regular nuclear

fusion better but...

[GreenPartyVoter]

4. Yeah. Nice wish list *hugs*

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

5. working on it in Arkansas

my husband is investigating using papercrete to use as a building source. It uses paper, including magazine paper, along with concrete and sand. R value is high, it is fireproof and bugproof, and since 1/3 of the product is recycled paper, the cost of making this stuff goes way down. We've bought solar panels and a wind turbine, and are planning a house that will be facing south. He's working on a way to use the turbine to help make hydrogen.