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Author Topic: History of Petition to Rid the Planet of Dirty Energy through 100% Renewables  (Read 2782 times)

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From a Comment Thread at Thom Hartmann   :icon_mrgreen:

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"I am but the traffic noise in the background at the outdoor cafe."

More like the exhaust fumes of said "traffic" (i.e. it appears to be innocuos but we know better).

I've watched and read the comments and articles of many intelligent fellows like yourself and have a fairly good working knowledge of your modus operandi.

1. You are quite selective about who you "quibble" with in what appears to be a lack of logic for continually ignoring the 24/7 dirty energy fleecing of the American taxpayer. But it's not lack of logic or intelligence. It's corvus oculum corvi non eruit.

2. You enjoy the corruptus in extremis energy playing field status quo and vigorously defend it because cui prodest scelus is fecit.

3. You sir, are clinging to a past from which you profited economcally and refuse to accept the damage to other humans and the biosphere that you have been a party to. Instead, you wish to claim that anyone who uses ANY energy that came from fossil fuels or nuclear and advocates a 100% transition to Renewable Energy is a hypocrite. You know that isn't true but those "exhaust fumes" of yours sometimes reach those without metaphoric "gas masks" to see through your empty rhetoric disguised as impish comments.

But just for the hell of it, let's say you are right and all of us who want dirty energy out now are hypocrites, fools or worse. What have you got to lose by signing the petition? After all, nobody is going to listen to us because we are bonkers, right? YOU are the one that is supposed to be grounded in "reality" so we haven't got a prayer of getting traction on our "silly demand" so why not humor us "poor deluded souls"?

Do your good deed for today: Sign here. http://www.care2.com/go/z/e/Ai3Tb

And while you are at it, why don't you argue this with your SAME ARGUMENT against pro-renewable energy people that still use some fossil fuels in daily life (see Dilworth quote below)? That is. that we are HYPOCRITES to support WARS FOR OIL and a BLOATED MILITARY? It's EXACTLY the same argument. If the shoe fits and all that, eh?

The following quote from a peer reviewed book is of extreme importance to all Americans:
Dilworth (2010-03-12). Too Smart for our Own Good (pp. 399-400). Cambridge University Press. Kindle Edition.

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"As suggested earlier, war, for example, which represents a cost for society, is a source of profit to capitalists. In this way we can partly understand e.g. the American military expenditures in the Persian Gulf area. Already before the first Gulf War, i.e. in 1985, the United States spent $47 billion projecting power into the region. If seen as being spent to obtain Gulf oil, It AMOUNTED TO $468 PER BARREL, or 18 TIMES the $27 or so that at that time was paid for the oil itself.

In fact, if Americans had spent as much to make buildings heat-tight as they spent in ONE YEAR at the end of the 1980s on the military forces meant to protect the Middle Eastern oil fields, THEY COULD HAVE ELIMINATED THE NEED TO IMPORT OIL from the Middle East.

So why have they not done so? Because, while the $468 per barrel may be seen as being a cost the American taxpayers had to bear, and a negative social effect those living in the Gulf area had to bear, it meant only profits for American capitalists. "

ote: I added the bold caps emphasis on the barrel of oil price, money spent in one year and the need to import oil from the Middle East.

This totally unjustified profit, never mind the needless loss of lives, then increases the power of the fossil fuel corporations to perpetuate a biosphere harming dirty fuel status quo. How? By "funding" politicians with rather large "donations" to keep renewable energy from competing with dirty energy. It's still going on RIGHT NOW!  :(

Sign here. http://www.care2.com/go/z/e/Ai3Tb or buy more stock in oil and coal corporations that have rewarded you  ( war profiteering and contrived artificial made-in-Wall Street oil price shock welfare queen, much?  ). with all those dividends that the REST OF US have funded by paying our taxes so you could enjoy la dolce vita.

We aren't hypocrites but we HAVE BEEN SUCKERS! You sir, are the hypocrite. But you knew that. It's part of the fun to do an Orwellian flip in true psychological projection, isn't it?
- See more at: http://www.thomhartmann.com/forum/2014/06/petition-president-obama-be-delivered-september-demand-liberty-fossil-fuels-through-10#comment-274010


Demand Liberty From Fossil Fuels Through 100% Renewable Energy WWII Style Effort
author: Anthony G. Gelbert
target: President Obama
signatures: 204

we've got 204 signatures, help us get to 100,000

It's time to reverse all this environmental trashing and get real about the fact that sustainability is not optional for a caring, intelligent human population. We are the caretakers of the biosphere because we are self aware beings. It's high time we began living up to our responsibility to be good stewards of nature.

We need to roll up our National sleeves and GIFT FUTURE GENERATIONS with a VIABLE BIOSPHERE! If we put our coordinated efforts into it, we can, like we did with the Liberty Ships in WWII, get it DONE in less than ten years!

# 204
Ms. Rebecca Ratliff, TX
Jun 30, 08:16
# 196
There are more renewable energy sources than most are aware, but they are suppressed by those who want to keep the status quo.
 # 195
For the children, the grandchildren, and the children of the grandchildren.
# 194
Natural gas is worse than dirty coal. It is due to methane leaking. Also, via fracking, it is destroying our water supply.
# 192
This is a tremendously important and crucial opportunity to do what's right for the people and our planet!
# 191
We spent a winter on the desert with only solar energy at our camp, with far fewer problems that we expected. It was not a big deal to power 2 computers, 2 phones, a TV, and an MP3 player. We did use propane to cook and heat water, and to power our fridge for an extra $20 a month
# 184
YOUR 2008 platform plank on New Energy Based Economy. DO THIS NOW. you are iin your last term. It is your legacy...the most important issue humanity faces....act on 08 platform now.
# 181
"If the GOP has their way, serfdom will arrive at the same time as the rising seawater." (Modified from original by 2ftunder).
# 165
only course of ACTION !!!!
# 163
Renewable energy fuels is not an IF, but a WHEN. We will encourage our friends and colleagues to INVEST in renewable energy sources and to DIVEST in fossil fuels.
# 162
We [the whole world] need this NOW!
# 160
Please Mr. President, we Americans were known as a people who could and did great things in our past. Help us to be a great and smart Country, and save our planet for our Grandchildren.
 

                                                                 
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