More than wind in sails
How can we reduce our dependence on foreign oil?
The Pickens Plan video, 4 mins. 49 secs.
In
part:
"This can all be accomplished in less than ten years, if you have the
right leadership. And everybody in this country has to cooperate. We
have to get on the same team, we have to march in the same direction."
Which is basically the recipe for revolution. As Marvin Harris states in "Return of the Witch" (an essay from his book, Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches: The Riddles of Culture (1974), "You can't make a revolution if everybody does his own thing. To make a revolution, everybody has to do the same thing."
So we have to find a way to make this revolution patriotic. As all-American as BOWLING, perhaps! Seriously. Having the right leadership will help, but we all have to cooperate with the switch to cleaner, increasingly domestic fuel sources. In our minds, many of us are using outdated models from the 1970s when we hear the word "revolution." So, instead of thinking, "scary, big, different," please note that this energy revolution is pro-culture, not counter-culture. I mean, c'mon, folks, at the video link above, we're watching T. Boone Pickens at a chalkboard.
We're all the culture now. There is no us versus them. We can't afford the tab for that.
For further info, check out this easy-to-follow analysis.
Wishing you a beautiful day,
Bill Brent
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