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"The big automakers are going to have to become almost regional in their thinking for a short period as they grow their markets for alternative fuels. That is because we have tons of competing flex-fuel highways operating right now, and that is exciting but fraught with peril. In California, Governor Schwarzenegger wants a hydrogen highway with hydrogen filling stations every twenty miles. This works for Ford's and GM's fuel cell technologies. The Midwest is home to ethanol (E85). Texas and the Southwest are home to biodiesel." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.) "The only debate needed is over the right mix of mandated efficiency improvements, investment in alternative fuels and (get the children out of the room) new taxes." This long view of the next century is part and parcel of national security and is totally related to environmental issues. All of us need to be activists and green patriots, and we need to pressure our political and business leaders to take actions consistent with our national values. There are some high stakes here, folks." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.)

"Organized into easy-to-read two-page spreads, the book is a wealth of information, explaining alternative fuels and energy sources as well as the major problems facing the planet today—and providing 101 real-life, actionable solutions that anyone can implement. Stormy Weather aims to spur action: "if there ever was a call to grow up as a species and to end our obsession with money, power and fossil fuels, this is it." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.) "Mike Millikin's Green Car Congress is the best single source for news on hybrids, hydrogen cars, alternative fuels, and related topics. It's one-stop shopping for the automotive eco-geek. as Bright Green Consumerism Opposite, left: Hydrogen refueling station. Opposite, right: Honda's experimental home fueling station could provide heat and electricity for a home as well as fuel for a hydrogen-powered fuel-cell vehicle. ¦m If we want to change the world, it helps to learn how to see systems and look for places in those systems where small, strategic actions pay off in big results." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"Saddam Hussein for 9/11, think of what we might have accomplished? Many nations would rather blame others than accept responsibility for how the world is today. And certainly they are far more willing to engage in finding fault than they are in solution finding. It's time for them to let go of these old habits. Then we can all jump on the Universal superhighway to world improvement. Universal Guiding Principle 16: Being All Three ?Judge, Jury and Convict Judgment is a double-edged sword. If you are judging others, you are most assuredly judging yourself." - Jackie Lapin, The Art of Conscious Creation: How You Can Transform the World (Get the book.)

"In the meantime, here are the problems with the various alternative fuels, based on what we know now. Natural Gas For the sake of this discussion, by natural gas I mean methane. Of the various natural gases that come out of the ground, methane (CH4), the lightest of them, makes up 75 percent of commercial product used in industry, electrical power generation, and home heating. The others, propane, butane, and so forth, are separated in processing and lend themselves more easily to liquefaction because they are denser and heavier. Natural gas is colorless and odorless." - James Howard Kunstler, The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century (Get the book.) "Carter attempted to fashion a coherent national energy policy; passed tax and rate incentives for hydroelectric development, especially on the small, local scale; restarted Nixon's "Project Independence" to develop synthetic hydrocarbon and alternative fuels; and set the tone at the top in a rhetoric that refused to soft-soap the problem. Appearing on television three months after his inauguration in April 1977, wearing a cardigan sweater and seated by a blazing fireplace, Carter declared that the nation's energy predicament was the "moral equivalent of war." - James Howard Kunstler, The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century (Get the book.) "As we shall see later, the lack of these qualities is among the problems with the putative alternative fuels proposed for the post-cheap-energy era. Cheap, abundant, versatile. Oil led the human race to a threshold of nearly godlike power to transform the world. It was right there in the ground, easy to get. We used it as if there was no tomorrow. Now there may not be one. That's how special oil has been. Where Oil Comes From Oil is ancient organic matter that has been heated under tremendous pressure and transformed chemically into chains and clusters of hydrogen and carbon atoms." - James Howard Kunstler, The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century (Get the book.) "At the same time, stunning advances in computer development (boomer-led), and the rapid growth of the huge new industry that went with it, had induced among the boomer cultural elite a mentality of extreme techno-hubris, leading many to the conviction that our fantastic innovative skills guaranteed a smooth transition into the alternative fuels future—which, of course, squared with the wishful views of conventional economists. It all amounted to an unfortunate self-reinforcing feedback loop of delusion." - James Howard Kunstler, The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century (Get the book.)

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