David Cozad
is a Green Dog Democrat!
David believes there is a Green Industrial Revolution just around the corner. He wants that revolution to happen in the 6th District. There will be Green jobs for the people in this district.
He will use the skills developed over the years to bring high paying jobs and opportunity to keep those jobs.
is a Green Dog Democrat!
David believes there is a Green Industrial Revolution just around the corner. He wants that revolution to happen in the 6th District. There will be Green jobs for the people in this district.
He will use the skills developed over the years to bring high paying jobs and opportunity to keep those jobs.
Paid for by Cozad for Congress
Energy
Problem:
The United States is facing ever greater competition for imported oil while domestic production continued to decline. Since oil and its derivatives contributes 80+% of the energy required for transportation, this will crisis on the order of the Bush Great Recession or worse.
Solution:
We have lost too much time to implement direct solutions, but we still have time to create demand destruction for gasoline and diesel. There are many ways to do this. The American driver found ways to not drive their vehicles in the face of $4.11+ per gallon of gasoline during mid 2008. We need more permanent solutions, but those solutions will require major changes in how we do things and what we need to build to implement them.
Background:
Energy for the nation is like the food in your stomach. There are three actions that have to happen before you are fed. First, you have to get the food into your stomach. Second, you have to digest it into a form that can enter your blood stream. Third, the blood stream must distribute the processed food to all parts of your body. The energy infrastructure of this country is similar. What is also similar is that if you eat the wrong foods, you can cause yourself a great deal of stress and distress later. The various forms of energy have the same effect on our environment and our country.
While climate change has claimed about 10 million victims so far, I don’t think it will start claiming 10 million American lives for another 20 or so years. Of much greater concern and more immediate is the threat from non-renewable energy sources, such as crude oil/petroleum. And when I say non-renewable, I mean once it is burned, it is gone and will never come back or renew itself. Humanity’s reliance on non-renewable energy sources is the biggest threat to our civilization at this time. I am now hearing a commodity analyst from Merrill Lynch saying the debate over Peak Oil is past news. We have already hit Peak and now we are on the down slope. It is here and we must deal with it now.
Most of you reading this may not know what Peak Oil is or what it means. Peak Oil refers to the bell curve of global oil production rate. Peak means the maximum global production rate. According to all of the data, maximum production rate was achieved during 2005 or early 2006 at 91 million barrels per day (mbpd). During 2008, maximum was down to 87 mbpd. This does not mean much until you compare it to global oil consumption rate which reached an all time high of about 86 mbpd sometime around July 2008. The price of oil almost went chaotic during July 2008 when the global future’s market hit $147 per barrel. Fortunately, this was a localized and temporary situation. It was localized to south and southeast Asia. It was temporary because the US surge in Iraq was ending and the Olympics in China was almost over. We dodged an energy bullet that year. We won’t get another chance. Either 2011 or 2012 will be the next energy bullet and this time it will be a deeper wound to our economy and our lives.
We have squandered any easy way out of this when the Bush administration decided to go to war to open up the oil spigots of Iraq and put the fear into Iran. We will have to get out of this mess the hard (the usual way for humanity) way. However, there is a way out, but it will take a lot of hard work and smart technology. The solutions are out there and being tested as you read this. And these solutions are American idea, American engineering, and American built.
The United States is facing ever greater competition for imported oil while domestic production continued to decline. Since oil and its derivatives contributes 80+% of the energy required for transportation, this will crisis on the order of the Bush Great Recession or worse.
Solution:
We have lost too much time to implement direct solutions, but we still have time to create demand destruction for gasoline and diesel. There are many ways to do this. The American driver found ways to not drive their vehicles in the face of $4.11+ per gallon of gasoline during mid 2008. We need more permanent solutions, but those solutions will require major changes in how we do things and what we need to build to implement them.
Background:
Energy for the nation is like the food in your stomach. There are three actions that have to happen before you are fed. First, you have to get the food into your stomach. Second, you have to digest it into a form that can enter your blood stream. Third, the blood stream must distribute the processed food to all parts of your body. The energy infrastructure of this country is similar. What is also similar is that if you eat the wrong foods, you can cause yourself a great deal of stress and distress later. The various forms of energy have the same effect on our environment and our country.
While climate change has claimed about 10 million victims so far, I don’t think it will start claiming 10 million American lives for another 20 or so years. Of much greater concern and more immediate is the threat from non-
Most of you reading this may not know what Peak Oil is or what it means. Peak Oil refers to the bell curve of global oil production rate. Peak means the maximum global production rate. According to all of the data, maximum production rate was achieved during 2005 or early 2006 at 91 million barrels per day (mbpd). During 2008, maximum was down to 87 mbpd. This does not mean much until you compare it to global oil consumption rate which reached an all time high of about 86 mbpd sometime around July 2008. The price of oil almost went chaotic during July 2008 when the global future’s market hit $147 per barrel. Fortunately, this was a localized and temporary situation. It was localized to south and southeast Asia. It was temporary because the US surge in Iraq was ending and the Olympics in China was almost over. We dodged an energy bullet that year. We won’t get another chance. Either 2011 or 2012 will be the next energy bullet and this time it will be a deeper wound to our economy and our lives.
We have squandered any easy way out of this when the Bush administration decided to go to war to open up the oil spigots of Iraq and put the fear into Iran. We will have to get out of this mess the hard (the usual way for humanity) way. However, there is a way out, but it will take a lot of hard work and smart technology. The solutions are out there and being tested as you read this. And these solutions are American idea, American engineering, and American built.
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