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[Tasmodevil44]

I still don’t think most people in this country have been able to wake – up and realize the sheer magnitude of the fossil fuel dependence and how much effort, will – power and determination is going to be required to overcome this problem. They simply don’t comprehend the sheer urgency or scope of it all. Eventually, every car on the road will have to be replaced by an electric or hybrid electric. Literally thousands (millions?) of new nuclear electric powerplants would have to be built to replace oil. Just to build all this new infrastructure will require more fossil fuel consumption for just a while longer until it can all be built. And because the DEA has suppressed renewable industrial hemp so long, it will take forever to put enough acres into cultivation to even put a dent in the problem.

And then you have the deeply entrenched interests. Will any coal mining company, oil company, or fuel – thirsty jet airline industry just simply volunteer to go out of business to save the planet? Not hardly. If Jimmy Carter could have had it his way back during the 1970’s, we would probably be well on our way by now. But you know how that turned – out. When Reagan became President, the entrenched interests and business as usual got things their way. The operating budget for Carter’s DOE was severely slashed until it became a virtually worthless and ineffective government agency. So now we’re playing catch – up on the problem and lagging decades behind. Even if Lerner’s research team gets focus fusion on the fast track to development, will big business try to suppress focus fusion and electric cars that run off it?

Because the bridge to the future and all the necessary infrastructure will require more fossil fuel consumption in order to get there, I sincerely hope President Obama and his good intentions don’t burn down that bridge with too much taxation and caps on CO2 emissions before we get there. The goose must lay the golden egg first. Only then is it O.K. to go ahead and kill the goose. He doesn’t expect all these windplants, photovoltaic solar panels and other things to just build themselves without fossil fuels being consumed, does he?