Quote from achilles28:
You take one tenth of what was spent in Iraq - 40 billion - and put it up for a global, free energy x-prize.
All of our energy problems would disappear in a year. In a fucking year.
The fact is, this will never happen. Big oil/defense owns congress and the sitting Administration (and the former, and the one before that... )
Think about the implications of free energy:
Tens of trillions in oil belonging to the worlds most profitable corporate empires VAPORIZING overnight. GONE.
Tens of TRILLIONS in corporate assets, equipment and investor value gone in a day.
Gone now is also Americas need for oil wars that serve the dual function of transferring hundreds of billions of tax payer monies to the defense industry.
Think the defense industry wants free energy? Fuck no.
If you subscribe to the finite theory of peak oil, oil rich states represent ground zero for every major armed conflict in the recent past and foreseeable future (see Iraq, Iraq, Afghanistan (caspian sea), Iran, Saudi Arabia etc).
A hopelessly dependant oil economy is fucking bank for defense contractors. They LOVE it! It just means the US will be plunged into more war, which means pure cash for them. No oil need = no war = no money.
What all this represents is the hijacking of US stewardship by the Anglo Saxon military-industrial establishment to:
1) create artificial scarcity by suppressing alternative energies from emerging. This ensures the dominance of oil as the worlds premiere energy source and the suppliers of it as masters of the universe for a very long time.
With oil our 'only hope'
2) defense contractors are written blank checks by congress for providing the tools to wage war against the terrible bogeyman (read: oil sultans) who would only nuke us if they had the chance!!! Oh, and incidentally, they've also got trillions in oil, which is ironically the only self imposed economic currency our good trusty whores in congress have allowed us to use. So we better jump on the 'war on terror' bandwagon or we're slitting on own throats!!
This whole cycle of power consolidation, leading to Congressional sanctioned scarcity (fucking whores), leading to war, and back again, can all be short circuited by free energy. Or something close to it.
You put free energy into the equation and the Big Oil scumbags don't have a leg to stand on. Their vast empires are rendered desertified scrap yards overnight.
With Westerns no longer needed to tacitly condone thinely veiled oil wars, and the entire Middle East - and its radical Islamic factions - having nothing to do with the oil except eat the shit, Islamic terrorism falls off and defense contractors have nobody to bomb.
What happens next is a resurgence of middle America from the crushing fiscal burdons of spiraling energy costs and defense inspired, towering tax rates. Real power - the MONEY - returns from the hands of the controlling elite, to the hands of the many.
When you take the fiscal burdon away from American public and releive them of their endless toil for meanial gain, their attention and their stamina will be reenergized and free to explore more enjoyable and productive pursuits - like cultivating a renewed interest in THEIR COUNTRY.
This scares the shit out of every two bit congressional whore and industrial war monger out there. Make no mistake. A revitalized American middle class having the financial independance to get involved in their country represents a real and serious threat to the ruling political/industrial elite.
This is why no real attempt by congress, or the President - or any other Governmental body - will ever be made to invest SUBSTANTIAL monies into alternative energies and once and for all develop a lasting counter to oil.
They would be shot dead in their tracks. Assassinated.
There is simply too much money in too few hands that have a overwhelming interest in seeing this nation hopelessly addicted to oil and, as a proxy, war.
These same interests own the politicians and our so-called national 'leaders'. These people, 'our leaders', are nothing but whores. Bush or Cheney, or Clinton or Stumpy have no intention of doing sweet-fuck-all about our current energy crisis. They love it.
It represents consolidation of power from the masses to the elite. From our checkbooks to theirs, we seal our fates everyday by every pump we squeeze and every lie we eat.
Remember what Eisenhower said in his farewell address?
" In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist."
Its already happened. They've taken over.
