PegasusWing's Blog

In grade 5 in our science book, we read that nuclear power was going to be too cheap to meter.  I believed it.

We also read that someday we would use little plastic computer cards to pay for everything, even gas, and instead of pay checks, your pay would go directly into your account.  I didn't believe it.

Now I look at this energy crisis and think: The American public and politicians are going to get smarter and come up with alternative means of energy.  We will get off the ever increasing consumption of oil and conserve.  Maybe I am just not a good guesser.

Maybe people will remain self indulgent.  Politicians will watch out for themselves and destroy the country with their greed. 

I envision some company designing wind turbines that can go up a pole like a flag, produce electricity for the individual home, then in case of hurricane, just be slid to the ground and safely secured and protected.  I see cost effective public transportation expanding in cities and between major cities.  I see electric cars being advanced just as the gasoline engine advanced from the model T to the electronic, luxurious wonders today.

Survivalist are on the move again, stockpiling food and weapons.  Maybe they are better guessers.  Politicians will look out for themselves and watch the country burn out.  Oil companies will pay off politicians and car companies to keep up the production of the gas guzzlers, which will bury the auto industry.  Food and fuel will become too expensive to buy.  When the country burns out, oil investors will be on some remote island sitting fat and content having cocktail parties with the politicians.

What are the solutions? 

If you had the power, what would you do to change the direction of the country?

Am I a dreamer, gloom and doomer, or finally guessing right?