I'm with you. When I lived in BC I watched as they took a mountain apart section by section for the copper. They drained a rather large lake on top of the mountain and a great fishing spot was gone for ever...never to return. They rebuilt the mountain with the wasted material next to the old mountain, planted some trees and then fucked off.

The tar sands of Alberta has enough oil in it to last over 200 yrs or more. But because oil is not that expensive on the market, they shut down the fields to minimum production. That stopped thousand of tons of pollutants. The problem is that no matter who you are going to elect there are special interest groups that pressure whomever is in power. I don't think it matters who's in power. Its business as usual. Eventually they, those that be, would be trying to capitalize on there investments.

The main problem is that there are alternatives to this situation and no government is going to promote a system where people can create there own power. Its not that hard, and cost effective. The reason why is because there is money to be made in large infastructures of energy. What we are ignoring is that, a carbon tax that they wish to place on us, simply means they are taxing the air that you breathe. Soon the sun will be taxed. Then the raindrops...this is all happening now. Thanks to big Al G...the best nuclear reactor salesman on the planet...!!!

We could stop this problem starting today...legislate in new home buildings solar panels that hook up to the grid and have the energy companies pay the home owner for the energy...millions of new homes in the future would capitalize on the sun...especially in the sun belts and desserts. And no pollution to the enviroment...

One idea is here and I like this one.
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Before prohibition, pretty well all cars ran on Alcohol and vegtable oils such as Hemp. Gas was almost unheard of. After prohibition Gas ruled and the Alcohol production was stopped...you can thank big business for that one...Standard Oil...for sure...our struggle is to seperate big business from the Government....we have a market place and allow the ambitious people access to that market on a grass roots level which is what capitalism is all about...but they won't unless you can pay big bucks to start up...this is where the banks step in... and to many taxes.

You can create Alcohol from any organic material, such as grass, tree leaves and branches, waste from food manufacturing (hundreds of tons of it). Cheaper than putting a bloody platform on the Ocean. Or knocking down mountains. Alcohol will not create a food shortage. Big Business that owns the media pushed out the idea of Corn for alcohol. What a joke. You could legalize hemp to produce more alcohol for fuel and give the family farmers a chance against the machine of corporate farming. Hemp can grow on a rock in any enviroment. Grows 12-16 ft high and is not Pot. I think we are so brainwashed about pot that has been around for 10,000 yrs and will not stop being around for another 10,000 yrs. Hemp will give us vegatable oil for Diesel engines (the first diesel engine ran on hemp up till the prohibition). Special interest groups had hemp banned, Du Pont and Hearst, Du Pont for Chemicals from Oil, Hearst for forest that he owned for paper production in 1937. I acre of hemp would equal 4.1 arces of trees for paper...no comparisson. Nothing but benefits.

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The problem is the specualtors who bought up all the valuable land rights for production...we got tunnel vision. You can create more jobs if you stop listening to special interest groups that lobby the governments. There is no quick fix to this problem. We are moving in the wrong direction as far as I am concerned. It don't matter who you got in, eventually both parties would have done the same shit...its the lobbing that inflences them. Special interest groups rule and the publics got to suck it up.

No one is thinking of me, but me. We got to stop being dependent on this type of bullshit. Despotism. Thats where we are at. When I read atricles like these, I tend not to get mad at whom is being focused on, but why are we still heading in that direction.

You know there are hundreds of people out there with good ideas, maybe more that thousands, and they don't have a chance with the media for exposure.