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Mr Tistarbahe,
As an initial disclaimer, I get all of my income from services that I offer to a European state owned company in the oil sector, dealing with the Middle East, where my family has old friends. I can, therefore, recognize the desperate need for the world to find a way to move away from the use of oil in particular. I am not confident that the USA will do anything about this. Big oil funds both the Republicans and the Democrats (albeit to a lesser extent, though Obama has begun talking about limited drilling after the oil companies started contributing to his campaign) and neither major party here is likely to do much about renewable energy.
Two countries in that part of the world are openly involved in an
undeclared war and in trying to extend their influence through
promoting their own, respective brands of fundamentalism through the
rest of the world in a way that is extremely dangerous to everyone
else, including to many of the citizens of these two countries, Saudi
Arabia and Iran. The Saudis are the more dangerous of the two because
they control not only the production of oil but also every process
including refining it, using the bottom of the barrelr esidues etc to
produce goods that the rest of the world needs, and using their
immense incomes from this enterprise to fund extreme fundamentalist
movements across the world. It is my belief that far more dangerous
than the crisis caused by severe hydrocarbon pollution is the danger
of suicidal terrorism by these countries either directly as in the
case of several spectacular attacks including 9/11 and indirectly in
the financing of terrorism across the rest of the world.
The arrogance that these nations display is because of their oil
derived wealth. Millions of South Asians, Filipinos, South Koreans
etc who work in those countries end up treated as slaves just because
of the Saudis' extreme arrogance because of their wealth. If the USA,
alone, were to cut back on the use of the oil that it buys from Saudi
Arabia, that country would be more than impovrished as things stand
now. Iran is already hurting because France has backed out of a
number of deals with the Iranian oil industry though American
stupidity in Georgia and the Ukraine may well cause the Russians and
the Chinese to step in anytime now.
That, though, is besides the point. Our poor nations in South Asia
are desperate for cheap sources of energy and our politicians too
short sighted to do anything about the immense reserves of renewable
energy that we have in our part of the world to benefit our own
people. The USA offers huge amounts of money - the Exim Bank's India
desk alone has an annual funding of $ 2.2 billion offered for
renewable energy projects in India alone. There is more funding in
other countries. So far, as far as I know, not one cent of the money
offered for India has been utilized. Only the Clinton Foundation has
shown plans for building what would eventually become the world's
largest solar thermal energy plant in Gujarat, though I have no idea
at what stage that project stands. What is most frustrating is the
fact that there IS money to be made out of this business. Perhaps,
our people have become utterly fatalistic and incapable of
understanding the overwhelming benefits to be gained from working in
this area. I have a presentation that I make to universities and
colleges in Illinois and Wisconsin on behalf of my university. I
shall ask for their permission and post it here if they permit me to,
to show just how much economic advantage there is in renewable
energy, especially for poor nations.
Thanks for your response and best wishes,
Mehul Kamdar
PS I do maintain a blog about Renewable Energy as a decided non
expert at www.mehulkamdar.blogspot.com though I do have the
assistance of some of the biggest names in this part of the world in
this area.
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