Inherit The Wind.

By 2020 China will be the world’s largest producer of renewable energy. “The program, begun in Feb 2005, has caught on across the country. A new law that took effect in January 2006 ensures a fixed grid price for wind power, which in turn has increased windmill production and public support for the program,” Vegetarian Times Jan ‘07

I am loath to praise a Communist country and I believe that China should be our enemy but what can I do, what can anyone do? China produces almost everything for almost everyone, and is the second largest consumer of energy on the planet. Now they want to cut the cord and be even more independent by having abundant, almost endless, non-polluting energy.

In 1962 JFK said,“ Those who came before us made certain that this country rode the first waves of the industrial revolutions, the first waves of modern invention, and the first wave of nuclear power, and this generation does not intend to founder in the backwash of the coming age..” Wha happen? (My personal feeling is that the unwanted influence of insurance companies has ruined so much of what made us America.) What? We don’t have the Rooskies to compete with anymore so we just sit back and forget about innovation and invention? Forget about the future and the needs of our nation? Sure we can find a way to make striped toothpaste and make TV that much harder to enjoy by having banners and chartrooms visible on the screen while I try and watch “Star Trek”, but is that it?

China a nation with no compunction about torturing, enslaving, and even murdering it’s own citizens has seen to it that steps are being taken to ensure that there growing energy needs will be met for the next few decades. While we here in the U.S. “founder in the backwash,” contemplating the unthinkable, burning coal and building more Chernobyls, and five will get you ten that Halliburton will get the contracts to build those plants.

Being Green aside, the power demands of the U.S. are only going to go up. We need to take measures to see to it that the United States isn’t a laughing stock holding on to outdated dogma because we fear change. Oil will run out, if not in my lifetime certainly in my daughters. Being on the Left or the Right shouldn’t matter. We all want a strong nation and if we get on the stick the U.S. could be the largest exporter of renewable energy tech and energy itself. But…we don’t want to be. We don’t want to grow hemp because of some didactic decision that hemp, “is bad,” or that, “solar is inefficient.” Granted a Pyrus doesn’t makes ones balls look as big as a 1971 black GTO but we should consider who has the bigger brains rather than balls, a nation that is ensuring it’s future or a nation that is trying to ignore change ?