Here are the characteristics:
1.Increase our fraction of global net energy (divert energy from competitors) directly by military action.
2.Increase our fraction of global net energy economically by increasing asset values (e.g., pumping up the stock market and real estate prices).
3.Reduce energy demand by eliminating unnecessary economic activity.
4.Reduce energy demand by reducing human population levels (e.g., closing our borders, deporting as many as possible and discouraging births).
5.Plant “Victory Gardens” throughout the country
6.Heavy funding for basic energy research.
7.Pollution control rollback, streamline permitting (no Environmental Impact Statements, etc.) for alternate energy. No more permits for fossil fuel power plants. No more funding for roads. No more building permits except in special cases.
8.Full-on conservation, local energy production to minimize grid vulnerabilities, and a crash alternate energy production program. (Conservation will help under a government that limits economic activity).
9.Free mass transit.
Do you think this is what we are going to have to do to survive dwindling energy resources or could there be a better way?
1.Increase our fraction of global net energy (divert energy from competitors) directly by military action.
2.Increase our fraction of global net energy economically by increasing asset values (e.g., pumping up the stock market and real estate prices).
3.Reduce energy demand by eliminating unnecessary economic activity.
4.Reduce energy demand by reducing human population levels (e.g., closing our borders, deporting as many as possible and discouraging births).
5.Plant “Victory Gardens” throughout the country
6.Heavy funding for basic energy research.
7.Pollution control rollback, streamline permitting (no Environmental Impact Statements, etc.) for alternate energy. No more permits for fossil fuel power plants. No more funding for roads. No more building permits except in special cases.
8.Full-on conservation, local energy production to minimize grid vulnerabilities, and a crash alternate energy production program. (Conservation will help under a government that limits economic activity).
9.Free mass transit.
Do you think this is what we are going to have to do to survive dwindling energy resources or could there be a better way?