The Koch Bros strike again with help from the likes of exxon etal

Well, the Exxons of the World along with the Koch Bros seemed determined to keep us hooked on a century old oil technology. They seem very unwilling to allow us to use things more eco-friendly.

For more on this article you should see this article from the Huffington post.

Why is it that we allow such corporate interests to dictate our energy policy to us? Furthermore why haven't they been able to embrace the energy technologies of the future as so many have done before?

In a related post, we have seen a recent decline in crude oil prices. As the story says most likely given the problems in the Eurozone and most likely Greece worries. See, although we have seen a modest recovery here they have not.

As is mentioned in the first article I linked to, the oil straightjacket has the US dead last in the renewable energy race. Why are we gonna let the Koch Bros etal dictate this to us for? Where is the Great American Ingenuity that we saw a hundred years ago now? We cartainly have gifted people such as myself working on this problem, not to mention folks such as Jack Ricard at EVTV Motor Works striving to bring electric vehicle technologies to us.

But they cannot do this all alone. It takes a pretty good following to even bring something to market these days. Not to mention EVs are only a small piece of the puzzle.

As it says in the first article which I linked you to, it takes the type of grassroots organizing like Jack Ricard is trying to do since our Federal Government is essentially hand tied because of the likes of the Kochs etal. But Jack only represents the EV market. There is a much larger market for wind and solar technology. I am sure there is someone somewhere doing the same for these two industries-- most likely in California and Washington state. See those two states are forward thinking when compared to the rest of the country unfortunately.

But as this article notes, we are in dire need of a sensible approach to these three technologies. Unfortunately I do not see that happening until we can keep the likes of the Koch Bros out of the decision making process. And unfortunately I do not see this happening anytime in the near future!