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AddReply(53090,"Renewble Energy Consultant","Edward Kramer","Houston Texas","07/15/06","I read with great anticipation Rachael\'s article on a Action Plan and would like to share my experiences with the typical mindset of Americans. I spent a week of my life trying to contact through email all of the Jewish synagogues, affiliate buildings and JCC\'s in the state of Texas about the merits and values of solar energy systems. And guess what, not one response about the interest in the technology. If you think the US Government is going to act to change the course of foreign oil dependence, you have a long wait. We must start in our own back yards, as the challange is spiritual.");
AddReply(53089,"alternative energy","Israel Zwick","nyc","06/13/06","As you mentioned, the technology for alternative energy already exists. It\'s development is being blocked by oil and financial interests. Check out the US Dept of Energy website to see what\'s available. What we need is a committment similar to the one that put man on the moon in 1969. We could almost be free of Arab oil in less than 20 years. Then those murderous Arabs can drink their oil and choke on it.");
AddReply(53088,"\'Bout Time","Ruth Lowry","Marsh field, USA","06/10/06","The US with all its technology should have developed alternative energy DECADES ago.Quite obviously our oil industry nixed THAT idea.GREED is a powerful force.\nG-d has provided everything his creatures need to thrive on earth. \nMost of it we have not made use of.I will gladly volunteer with people dedicated to spreading news of alternative energy.\nWithout oil to sell,what will the Muslims fund terrorism with ... sand?");
AddReply(53087,"Hydrogen has problems","Gamaliel Isaac","Irvington","06/10/06","Hydrogen is not an energy source.  You need to put in energy to get out hydrogen.  Solar and nuclear on the other hand are energy sources.  They can\'t compete in price, however with oil that pours out of the ground.  A good first start for Israel would have been not to give the Abu Rodeis oil fields to Egypt but they did.  Another good move would have not been to give the offshore oil rights to the Palestinian Arabs but they did.  The West needs to take control of the oil fields that they allowed the Arabs to seize from the oil companies.  ");
AddReply(53086,"The Hydrogen Myth","mike","new york usa","06/08/06","Kudos to Rachel for pointing out the importance of oil independence.\n\nAlmost everything Rachel mentions can make an important contribution to oil independence, except hydrogen.\n\nHydrogen is so far from being an appropriate subsitute for oil we must question the motives of those who advocate hydrogen.\n\nHydrogen is not a source of energy, only a carrier, so we will still need a source of the underlying energy.  Hydrogen requires an entirely new and  extensive infra-structure. It is also highly explosive.\n\nOur best bets are better batteries, better engineered cars and plant based fuels.");
AddReply(53085,"to Gavriel #12","stephen davidson","tampa fl","06/08/06","hi, it is not alot of work at all and does not take much time. there is alot of used oil in florida free for the asking. everyone i know that does it enjoys doing this. it seems hard at first but others that are doing it help each other out. you make new friends. it becomes fun.");
AddReply(53084,"#8 David","Gavriel","aj2m","06/08/06","It sounds like a lot of work; having to filter the used v. oil and then to be conscious of making the appropriate switches during use. You must have a lot of time on your hands.");
AddReply(53083,"Coruptionists at work","BillH","LeecoFl","06/08/06","There is plenty of oil in the USA for our needs. I understand  we are not developing these assets because various politicians such as the kennedies and others have huge oil interests and are making big bucks from the high oil price . They use the environmental argument as a ruse to prevent further drilling and probably pay off enough congressmen and senators to make sure the voting goes their way. The oil tar sands have enough oil for a hundred years but there would have to be a guaranteed price per barrel as extraction is expensive ($40). Watch for the envirofascists objections to this also. ");
AddReply(53082,"Dont forget  about animal dung!","jonatan","new york","06/08/06","Ehrenfeld left out one age old energy source - animal dung-this, combined with the hot air emanating from the American Jewish Congress ,would solve the global energy problem, and give the AJC some redeeing social value.");
AddReply(53081,"THERE ARE 2 THINGS YOU FORGOT","JOSIANE","MAALE ADUMIM","06/07/06","IT IS THE OIL LOBBY WHO HAS A LOT OF POWER. AND ALL THOSE IN THE GOVERNMENT WHO HAVE INTEREST IN THE OIL FIELDS IN THE ARAB COUNTRIES.");
AddReply(53080,"oil","stephen davidson","tampa fl","06/07/06","i quit buying gas about 2 years ago. i burn vegetable oil in my car. it works great. check out greasecar or biodiesel on the web. just do it !");
AddReply(53079,"And where does the electric power come from?","Loren","Cleveland","06/07/06","DPHeimbold your idea is fine, except for what is the power source for this electricy? It does not produce itself.\n\nThere are a number of solutions available, none of which will be the total solution. A combination of solutions each to solve part of the problem. \n\nThings like bio fuels and gasification of coal, solar power, hydrogen, and nuclear power will all be needed to brought in and used.");
AddReply(53073,"To break an oil cartel","Ron","","06/07/06","The president goes on national tv and says we can no longer afford 70 dollar per barrel of oil.  We will pay 15 dollars per barrell for it.  Oil will be cut off for about 3 weeks.  Then it will be 15 dollars per barrell.  Every union in the US has been busted, why not a cartel?");
AddReply(53078,"Kick the Oil Habit - USA","Gautam","India","06/07/06","The author wrote about some thing that was written on the wall for all of the civilized nations in this world. \nAlternative energy source is a must. I have read in the news papers recently that India also is into this research now. ");
AddReply(53077,"Wishing Will Not Make It So","Norman Cohen","Los Angeles, Calif.","06/07/06","HaShem provided us with far more wood than we would ever need when wood was the major fuel.\nDitto coal. And ditto oil & gas; we have far more in the world than we will ever need. Our problem is the secular leftist ideology which prevents us from making full use of HaShem\'s blessings while we thumb\nour noses at Him. We suffer heavily for that,\nin more ways than one.\nWe will, eventually, come up with other forms\nof energy as we evolve to water as an ultimate\nsource. But wishing won\'t make it so. We need to replace our  secular leftist idol worship with Baruch HaShem. \n  ");
AddReply(53076,"It\'s simply Electric!","DPHeimbold","St. Augustine, Florida","06/07/06","I was told as a tot that Thomas Edison invented the light bulb because he couldn\'t pay his gas bill. Gas lamps were the light source back then. Now we have too much electricy at night in the USA. Problem is people sleep at night, many industries close at night, lights go off at night. But those coal fired generators, and hydro generators keep turning..waisting electric. Small electric vehicles that have been around since the 1920\'s could be redesigned and pluged into a household electric outlet at night for local shopping trips during the day. 98% of USA electric is produced without oil!Voila!");
AddReply(53075,"FASTER BETTER WAY -- NUKE SA,IRAN,IRAQ,GULF OIL....","THE TRUTH","","06/07/06","WIPE OUT MEKKA AND MEDINA. TELL THEM ISLAM IS OVER. WIPE OUT THE ARABS STRANGLEHOLD OVER THE WEST BY WIPING OUT THEIR OIL INFRASTRUCTURE. ENERGY PRICES WILL SKYROCKET. OIL RICH STATES LEFT WILL BECOME WORLD LEADERS (THE USA IS STILL IN THE GAME). ALTERNATIVE ENERGY SOURCES/TECHNOLOGIES WILL JUST HAVE BECOME ECONOMICALLY REASONABLE. THE ARABS? WELL THEY CAN GO BACK TO THE STONE AGE, WHERE THEY CAME FROM...ISRAEL CAN DO THIS ONE BY ITSELF!!!");
AddReply(53074,"US doesn\'t want a solution","Alan","Jerusalem","06/07/06","I agree with most of what you write however, the truth is that the oil barrons who run the US government do not want the western world to be oil free.  There is already a clean burning reasonably priced fuel which the US could produce without limit and that is ethanol from corn.  The mix is 85% corn and 15% fossil fuel  but the use of the fossil fuel will be reduced dramaticly.  This will never happen as I stated earlier and no amount of research will correct the issue unless the same leaders of the US can make there money from the new product.");

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