"Transition is not a movement for bringing about change. Change is coming, with us or without us, whether we want it or not - profound change."
Published Nov 26 2010 by Transition Times, Archived Nov.
28 2010
Sounds kind of scary, doesn't it? I mean, after all, most of us just get by now. If we are lucky enough to be employed and also lucky enough to make decent money, we still just get by.
The other day, a fellow told me that he really didn't have time for such nonsense. He works hard and home power generation projects are for the talented handyman who likes to tinker around with electrical hobbies. Sure, they generate some electricity, but as much as we complain about the cost of utilities, it really isn't such a stretch to keep your family warm and comfortable. And besides, he said, residential power generation is probably expensive.
I understand his reluctance, I really do. But this is not just for handymen and while it used to be a really neat hobby, it is coming to the point that it will be about taking care of your families.
All joking aside, Rush and Al and all their little friends are going to do just fine, thank you very much. They will always have fuel and heat and their families will be snug and comfortable, and mobile. No, that is not the question here. The question now is: How will yours fare?
Stay with me just a couple of minutes more and then you can get back to your relaxed atmosphere. OK, now expand your thinking to add to the present day scenario. Extend down the road eight months or a year or whatever and imagine a really big blowup in the Middle East. Now tell me what your fuel and heat costs you. And it doesn't take the Middle East. Lots of the petroleum fields are aging and production is going to decrease fairly soon. What happens when supply of anything dwindles? And any number of geological or military catastrophic happenings can come through to obstruct supply and raise your fuel costs. Enormously.
Not a little, enormously!
Does that mean the lid will blow on our energy costs next week or next month? How about six months, or even a year? Actually, we really don't know, do we? It may be a year. And it may be tomorrow. We just don't know. And here's something you can look up. Easy. Just look up China's projections for petroleum imports for five years from now. Go ahead. I'll wait. You will find out that China expects to bring its projected petroleum imports up to the point where it covers all the petroleum now being exported. Everywhere. All over the globe. All of it. Don't take my word for anything. Look it up!
Now don't take me wrong here. We have lots of friends in China and they might change their projections. Do you think they will change it so we can say they are playing fair and they will just do without in order to make sure we have some and we are happy? Really? Read the petroleum news and you will see that they are making deals all over the globe, and they're not doing that as a hobby. They expect to need the petroleum and they expect to have it available, and they expect to have it!
I know that someone will now write me and say I am anti-Chinese. I am not. I am pro-family and I want my family to be warm and mobile. Not too much to ask for an American, but it soon will be.
And here's the point in case you haven't figured it out. Using whatever scenario you want, a year or so down the road you might just find in your own neighborhood that only one family has a refrigerator that has electricity to actually run. Maybe only one will have a vehicle to take off down the road with. In case you haven't thought about this, when energy gets really scarce, the jobs will dry up and the only people able to get to work will be the only people with jobs. Think about it!
If you are the only one in the neighborhood with a refrigerator that operates, you might not want to let the neighbors know. If you are the only one with a radio, you might not want to blast it out. You might just have neighbors who decide that their family deserves those things more than yours does. It won't occur to them that they simply needed to plan a little further ahead. It will not occur to them that their family's problem are their own fault. They will just know that you have what their family wants. Period!
You think there won't be fighting and strife when all this happens. Energy salvation is when a family has enough energy. That definition doesn't address whose family.
So. What about it? Who's families will be taken care of?
Don't believe a bit of this? Fine!
Hide and watch.
Jimmy writes a home power generation review web site. He is interested in what works and what scams are out there. Write him with your thoughts and observations at: greenjim@juno.com See his review web site at: http://homepowergeneration.info Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=J_Cosmos |
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