| May. 26th, 2007 02:48 pm Wha'cha got? Wha'cha need? {Edit} My original post is located below. After reading dessum9’s post this morning, I figured that it required a bit of a response. First of all I do not think that any of us are “sitting back in our rockers” I think that a lot of us are desperately looking for short term solutions for our immediate survival and then beginning to look for long term solutions for viable alternatives for oil. Here are some links that I have found: For those of you who have lost their lodgings here is an architect with some great ideas. I noticed that there is a couple who have written a book about their year consuming local food. Here is a great site that is looking forward to all aspects of the future. At the bottom of my original post, I have made the comment about becoming politically involved. I think that the idea was first mentioned by ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) miawithoutoil. For the record, I have sent an e-mail concerning the current situation to Senator Carl Levin. Finally to dessum9----- we’re duuuin th’a best tha we can lad….go ha’ a pint and calm down a wee bit! OK now for my original post…… Wha’cha got? Wha’cha need? I wanted to come up with a catchy header for this post… I was originally going to call it “I’ll show you mine, if you show me yours”, but then I realized that these blogs are probably being read by some people of tender years. I decided that the rejected title was a little bit too… um.. Well, à deux entente, so to speak. This post is about resources. Before I get into the main part of my post, allow me a small update. Our new “extended community”, is thriving. There seems to be enough food and ways of sheltering to go around this winter to get us through. I talked to the farmer whose land adjoins our property and he says that things are looking up for next year. It seems that all of the local farmers have formed some sort of cooperative and that they will be planting with the intent of feeding all of SE Michigan. They will be ignoring the Federal government’s subsidy programs entirely. Still it will take a while for them to switch to permaculture mode. It is a start, at least. There was an interesting development in Dearborn a while ago. I have a couple of people that I know that are placed fairly up in management with Ford Motor. They were commenting on the recent idling of the Rouge complex, due to nonexistent car sales. They talked about the labor crisis. “All of these people and no work” I am actually beginning to believe that these guys care about people. Or maybe is it just their own jobs they worry about and it is de rigueur to talk about other peoples lost jobs? Who knows? Any way, they are desperately trying to redesign a car that will be more fuel efficient. The bottom line here is that the plant is lying idle and they would like to get people back to work. My question for them was that “If the plant was idle, but fully functional, could they switch over to something that would help out in the short term?” After a couple of “where are you going with this?” comments, I spewed forth my idea. Can you make coal fired generators in order to get this economy back on our feet? We can no longer import anything, so we will have to make it within our own country and we need power. A couple of days later, they called me back affirming that it was possible to produce these power plants. This is where you, gentle reader come in. I need a favor. Take a look around and see what your community needs to get back on their feet. (Other than food, sorry... just can’t help there) Can you get cotton and/or hemp planted? Do you have an old textile mill that needs power? A cannery? What ever you can think of. Then think about what you might have or could produce that others may need. In other words, wha’cha got wha’cha need? Coal is something that we have in this country; we don’t have to import it. (Sorry for putting in all of these parenthetical thoughts, but they have to go somewhere. I know that coal is a short range solution, but by golly, we have to do something to get this country back on its feet now!) By now, you are probably thinking that good ol’ Megiddo has finally slipped his moorings. “Poor guy just couldn’t take the stress…. Even if Ford built the power plants, how could we get them here?” He, he….. Now for the good news. As most of you are aware, the government has confiscated a lot of the locomotives for “National Security reasons”, the railroads are strapped for fuel. Both parties have no use for anything but present technology. This is a good thing for us! Michigan has been housing a piece of old technology for some time now. It is a piece of history that has been stored and maintained for decades! I am proud to announce that the state of Michigan has an 8,000 Hp Allegheny locomotive up and running! The power plants I mentioned? We can get these to you and we can also deliver coal to run your plants. Oh and BTW, deliver salt. (Did I mention that we have a lot of salt?) We are good to go here…. What about you? On a final note: Has anyone heard about what our government is doing during this crisis? I haven’t. I would like to remind all of the Americans participating in this project that we all have a very powerful tool (or weapon depending on how you look at it) at our disposal. That tool/weapon is our vote. In the past we have clearly demonstrated what sheeple, (please don’t make me define that word, y’all can figure it out can’cha?), we are by not using it. In 2008 we will be having elections. We all have a vote; we had better use it wisely. I would recommend that all of us write to our Congressmen (OK, Congresspeople) and Senators. I would ask them what is going on right now. I would tell them about the WWO project and they had better start thinking and taking action right now. You might mention that in the end, if they make the wrong decision, they might not even make it to a footnote in the history books, (they hate that idea!). It has been said often that if this county could put the effort behind finding solutions to the energy problem like we did the Manhattan project, our situation would improve quickly. Just a thought. Bright Blessings Megiddo Leave a comment    |
