PHILIPPINE VOYAGER

 The industrial revolution has come to a full circle the first one was led by the discovery, use and development of oil as the prime source of motive power.  But let us not forget that prior to oil, coal was the motive power and oil was the developing alternative.  The open burning system was too sooty and grimy so much so that an alternative was needed, then came oil and Standard Oil and the Rockefellers and the Fords.

That Ford Model T really made the internal combustion engine an acceptable mode of getting around in a car.  The Stanley steamers that were produced did not stand a chance.  And so America was so in love with the oil industry and thus the Seven Sisters was born, owned by only one family, the Rockefellers.

Forging alliance with the US Government, the Oil Cartel’s interests were forcibly made the foreign policy interest of the Government. It would seem at this time that the Government officials were recruited from the ranks of Oil Cartel executive pool.  And Government independence and broader mandate was put aside.  Almost all were recruited from the Oil Companies themselves.

The US Government fought for the Oil Cartel’s interests and its military might was used to subdue uncooperative Government such as what happened in Iran where a rightfully elected Government was toppled by the Oil Cartel and to be replaces by an offensive, oppressive and cruel Government of Shah Reza Pahlavi.

It supported alliances with a view for convenience, supporting dictators and discarding them when they were no longer useful.  Look what happened to Saddam Hussein, he was the U.S. Government’s son of a bitch when it was trying to dislodge the reign of an equally repressive government of the Ayatollah Khomeini that the people of Iran accepted and has up to now supported.

So in conclusion, oil is not a neutral factor in production of wealth, it is accompanied by misery and death especially when the Rich Oil Cartel tries to take it over for themselves and has to use Government Military to support its continued dominance and perpetuate the nearly confiscatory economic relation with vassal states owning the oil resources.  Why do you think Iraq was invaded?  What political Party went all out in supporting the invasion prolongation of the war in Iraq?  What are the economic interests of this party? Oil? Construction? Military Hardware? Charity? Religious Propagation? Or pure Altruism? CAN THE CONSERVATIVES HONESTLY ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS? PLEASE? PLEASE PLEASE?

THE GREEN ENERGY OPTION – THE NEW REVOLUTION.

The Oil Cartel and the Conservatives does not like the phrase “Green Energy”, they dislike the idea of Global Warming, Carbon Emission and the lessening of the carbon dioxide being spewed out into the atmosphere.  Why, because they will cost more in production if oil is replaced. 

Excuse me but isn’t it you have sent out America’s jobs to Third World countries to take advantage of the lack of pollution regulations as in China and India and exploit the low survival wages they receive per your pricing instructions?

The benefits of going green are innumerable especially in the health aspect of the American citizens suffering from emphysema and other COPD and pollution of the waterways.

Politically, it will lessen the hold of the Oil Cartel on politicians and Government Administrations then and now.

It will lessen the fuel bill so that America can start to save and invest in more healthier and pro-people endeavor and not on wars of subjugation on oil producing states.

It will deprive terrorists and terrorists states of their income to threaten America and it may perhaps, deprive these malefactors of their cause or causes that has effectively rallied people to them.

It will develop new ideas for conservation and pollution reduction that can be made the world standard to which American imports must be measured (Remember the no child labor standards on sneakers imports?).

New ways of heating homes and cooling homes will start new investments in efficiency pursuit that will spawn new inventions and provide for healthier quality of life.

The bulk oil carriers that are the main cause of ocean oil-spill pollution will be a thing of the past.  

New investments on roads, trains, trucks, communications and production will spur the new paradigm on prosperity, not the war and reconstruction pattern that has been the norm for the pro-war party and entities since World War 2. 

This is why I consider Dwight Eisenhower a Great Man, he cautioned us against the Military-Industrial Complex that would have put the United States in a perpetual flux of war and reconstruction as a means of economic and political policy to support the war capabilities of the country and send more young people to an early death.  Instead, President Eisenower built roads and other alternative economic activities to wean us off wars.  The Korean war was supposed to be the last war but some “domino theorist” created a new reason for America to get into its one of its disastrous war, the Vietnam  War. 

New education and skills will remove the veil of monopoly from the selfish trickle-down economist and their party. The new energy paradigm must produce simple and cheaper ways to self-generate energy by-passing the too many regulations when using oil as energy source in the homes and businesses. 

There should be more do-it-yourself kits on energy self-generation to spur new home businesses. States and the Federal Government must back off and even reverse some of their rules that has hampered small and medium scale industrialist in expanding to employ more people.  One way of increasing employment is to increase employability. The best way is to shoulder the health-care (not of the addicts, alcoholics, and cigarette smokers) and education expenses of the people to make them more productive.  Productive people are less prone to be addicts and trouble-makers.  By giving preference to education, it will lessen the emotional appeals to go to war because education enlarges peoples’ options and they won’t be herded into supporting another Iraq style political and economic suicide.

I remember the adage “In war the first casualty is truth” and it happened in the Iraq war misadventures, the reason for the war were the lies, the killers haven’t been brought to justice………………yet. [Written by Deo Quiogue]