Suggested Discussion Outline–Al Gore’s Challenge to America

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Suggested Discussion Outline–Al Gore’s Challenge to America

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SUGGESTED DISCUSSION OUTLINE – Al Gore’s 10-Year Challenge to America

A. Benefits of Al Gore's 17 July 2008 Challenge to America to re-power its electrical grid to rely 100% (except for hydro which would remain in place) on wind and solar power WITHIN 10 YEARS!!!

A-1. Compliance with Kyoto with 100% clean electricity.
A-2. Achieve energy independence for our foreign policy.
A-3. Eliminate our balance of payments deficit (borrowing $700 billion/year from China to buy oil from other foreign countries, many of whom hate us).
A-4. Create American jobs.

B. Barack Obama's position

B-1. Research only - $15 billion/year for 10 years (adding $7 trillion to our national debt which is more than our total outstanding debt at the beginning of 2008 and approximately 50% of our annual gross domestic product ("GDP"))!!!
B-2. One million "plug in" electric cars on the road by 2015 EVEN THOUGH COMPARED TO GASOLINE AND DIESEL VEHICLES, ELECTRIC VEHICLES GENERATE 400% MORE GREENHOUSE GASES (AND MUCH MORE THAN 400% MORE SULPHUR POLLUTION (THINK ACID RAIN))!!!
B-3. Appearing to continue to "carry water" for the coal industry as he did in the Illinois legislature for the Southern-Illinois coal companies and continues to do in the U.S. Senate - which is the most likely explanation for why he proposes solely "research" rather than, a la Al Gore, ACTION!!!

C. Should national legislation be enacted requiring federal licensing for "plug in" electric vehicles (as distinguished from hybrid vehicles which obtain their electricity by capturing the excess power generated by their gasoline engines).

C-1. Prevents "anybody and his brother" from generating 400% more greenhouse gases and much more than 400% more acid rain by using electricity rather than gasoline or diesel!!!
C-2. Requires cities like Los Angeles to justify creating 400% more greenhouse gases and much more than 400% more acid rain from using electric rather than diesel buses - which, presumably, Los Angeles could only justify be proving that being able to export their smog and acid rain to new electric plants downwind from California IS NECESSARY TO ACTUALLY PRESERVE LIVES FROM A MEDICAL VIEWPOINT IN L.A.
C-3. Otherwise, no "plug in" electric vehicles would be authorized, as recommended by T. Boone Pickens, until Al Gore's proposal to produce 100% of our electricity from wind and solar power is implemented - AND THEN ONLY AS FAST AS THAT CAPACITY CAN BE EXPANDED TO PROVIDE CLEAN ELECTRICITY FOR "PLUG IN" VEHICLES.

D. Financing Al Gore's Proposal

D-1. Recognition that it will never be undertaken by private enterprise because the Saudi's will simply play for the next 35 years the same game they have been playing for the last 35 years - flooding the market to drive oil prices down whenever they get high enough that alternative sources of energy become economic so that the Saudi's long-lived oil reserves don't become worthless.
D-2. A U.S. Governmental project similar to the Manhattan Project (development of the atomic bomb) or the Tennessee Valley Authority (a gigantic depression-era public-works electricity-generation project) could be undertaken despite the Saudi policy of trying to make it uneconomic.
D-3. Trying to recruit the European Union to join the project so that they don't remain "under the thumb" of Russia which currently supplies the bulk of the E.U.'s natural gas.
D-4. Do we really have a choice??? In other words, how long will the Chinese continue to LOAN us money to buy $700 billion/year of foreign oil???
D-5. And how long can we continue to burn coal and petroleum products from a global-warming perspective???
D-6. And even if we "clean up our act" - how can we get the rest of the world to use clean sources of energy unless the U.S. (with European collaboration if we can get it) makes wind and solar power CHEAPER THAN THE COST OF PRODUCING PETROLEUM AND COAL??? Otherwise, global warming and, eventually, the extinction of the human race from the reduction of oxygen in the earth's atmosphere from 21% to 18%-19% can only be averted BY MILITARY ACTION AGAINST POLLUTERS - AND DO WE REALLY RELISH THE PROSPECT OF, FOR EXAMPLE, BEING FORCED TO INVADE CHINA IN ORDER TO PREVENT THEM MILITARILY FROM BUILDING A NEW COAL-FIRED ELECTRIC PLANT EVERY WEEK???

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