Renewable fuels

Q: Are renewable fuels the answer?

A: They're a big part of the answer.

There are plenty of workable alternatives we're barely looking at. How much power is in the waves and the tides of our shores? Or the water running down our rivers. How many trees do we grow? How much waste are we trying to bury? How much sunlight lands on the UK each day? Of all the natural energy we receive, free, every day of the year, how much are we actually using. Two percent? One percent? Probably much less. The oil companies tell us production has already peaked. We know all this means is that prices are going to go up.

Now suppose instead of all the money going to oil companies we kept all that money here at home, developing renewables/organics, growing our own energy. Think of the new industries that would be generated. Think of all the jobs, steady jobs, meaningful jobs, jobs right here at home--not shipped overseas—that such a program would generate. 

There is a great and pressing need to develop organic, renewable, sources of energy to reduce the CO2 entering the global atmosphere. However, the question remains: while all these efforts will work to reduce the amount of CO2 going into the atmosphere, what should we do about removing some of what's already there - which, demonstrably, is far too much already? The answer is to plant trees!