We are all trapped by the alleged credit crunch yet our government and its private surrogate continue to create money from thin air to support huge financial firms that produce no goods or services. We mire ourselves in the illusion of debt. We continue to build vehicles that make large carbon footprints. We guarantee that cheap energy now will assure a tsunami cataclysm by our behavior. Wind and solar power projects will have to go forward without the bankers and those clinging to ancient technology in order to squeeze the last scintilla from aged technology. Thus it makes sense for infrastructure builders to be provided loans and grants directly without the inordinate expense and delay created by banks who simply are an anachronism. Banks should not be the nation’s financial gatekeepers. Banks should be like a utility, the means to currency creation not profit centers. If loans and grants are not available from public resources then we must impose a system of creating value using a system of barter and available cash until we can create a universal currency. We must view our future in terms of technology, value added services and jobs. Energy production is the critical element behind it all. Renewable energy is the new oil and engine behind our future. Virtually everything we do depends on it. The way this will be done is to determine where the resources are, who owns them and if they are willing to participate in the rebuilding of America using renewable energy. For example there will be people who have large tracks of open land available in the nation's wind corridors. There will be others who have built or designed the next generation wind towers and solar collectors. Still others who have built and or designed mini power stations. There is battery storage technology that is still on the vine that we have not used that can assure not only power to our homes but also to our cars and everything else we do. We just have to look for the resources and use them. We should not be afraid of making mistakes. Mistakes are the source of inspiration and change. To do otherwise requires that we stand in awe of the Wall Street Bankers who have brought us to the brink of a disaster most of us do not understand including those who have worked on Wall Street most all of our lives. Do we really want to watch the lights go out in every factory, every farm, every office building and every home across America because we have neither the will, wisdom nor foresight to throw off the shackles of a bygone era? America’s revolution did not occur in 1776. It occurred during our “so called” Civil War. Its time to take back self determination and the energy to make a difference that was extinguished when our states became supplicants to 25 square miles called the United States of America less than 150 years ago.

Greetings, I would be curious to know the average price of gasoline in the last 100 years. There will be dips and valleys, however there is a rising action going on. As money goes out of our economy our currency gets more and more inflated. Personally, I think alternative energy = is a economic stimulus plan. It would create alot of jobs. Pushing the economic benifits of the pickens plan may be the way to go. Another thing, why do we ship most of our goods by 18 wheeler? A train can pull the same loand alot farther on the same gas. Alot of the effort has been on commuter rail. I think commercial rail is a better way to go. sincerely, steve

T. Boone Pickens is reported to have "scaled back" the installation of turbines in Texas. Reason: The credit market has collapsed. As Mr. Pickens explains, "I thought I could do this thing on 20% equity, 80% credit, then I thought 30% equity, 70%; now I can't..." -- Is T Boone flat broke?? Well no, but that's how to get there. Face it, T boone is invested heavily in America. When he put up CASH to begin a new investment it has to come from somewhere, and in this country if you move it, you either take the market's hit, or the government's haymaker. The money would have to come from offshore accounts in tax shelters. America's investors have 12 TRILLION hiding there, and if you bring it home you PAY THE TAXES. It's not just business, IT'S THE GOVERNMENT!!! What Mr. Pickens needs to do is invest a little in passing the FairTax.org plan which fixes ALL that craziness. (P.S. Boone likes FairTax) But the volunteers who are funding this movement are getting laid off, and running out of money. "So, Mr. Pickens, will you HELP US? You can make small individual "gifts" that are tax free. All you need to do is contact the Americans For Fair Taxation in Houston, and make an accountability list of projects which you could sponsor with crystal clarity, and no taxability." You help US, and you help YOU, and you help the whole USA!

This weekend central bankers from around the world will meet in Washington, D.C. to discuss yet again our alleged banking and credit crisis. We don't have a credit or banking crisis. What we have is the collapse of the central banks worldwide. Their mission is to make currencies around the world available to the economy. Instead, they have created currency, not money, that is not a storehouse of value but instead a storehouse of perceived value which as most of us now know is headed toward zero. Thus they are redundant and must be replaced with facilitators who help us all create value instead of appropriating the value we create as employers, business owners and employees. Unlike money which for most of our history has been gold and silver, currency is a debt instrument that is used to "pay for all public and private debts." It seems hard to imagine that we deposit these instruments as money since they store no value and no guarantee that they will be paid as if they are money. Were anyone to were to read the words on our paper currency, you have to wonder what do those words mean? They simply mean that our Federal Reserve ( a private bank) is printing promises (through the U.S. Treasury and Mint) to pay as if those promises to pay have value. Every other currency which uses a promise to pay versus money which is a storehouse of value lies at the center of our worldwide financial collapse. We are being paid with paper and electronic currency in which the public has lost faith. Without faith in the currency to store value, we are working for nothing. We toil each day to be paid with a promise to pay that falls in value every moment of every day. Inasmuch as our U.S. Government wishes to retain a deeply flawed way of doing business it is up to the people to create their own methods to transact business without the use of U.S. Dollars and other currencies that have no real meaningful value. Energy production has value. It lights and heats our home and businesses. It provides direct resources for everything we do. It keeps us alive and healthy( most of the time). We have the technology to create a system that rewards the productive with value for productive effort. We should dump our ever degrading currency and the bankers who create it. We should dump the politicians who use it to wield an illusion of power. We should replace the lawyers with people who have had to make a payroll in businesses that create value for our daily lives. We have an opportunity to empower ourselves as the founders envisioned. We can produce all of our power, education, health care, housing, employment and well being if we have the will. It seems however that our government would rather rule despotically rather than help us as our servants build a better society for our children and posterity.

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I have an electric car dealership in Leavenworth Kansas. I am worth less than 100k on paper. Times are terrible for car dealers right now. Tight credit and a bad economy are killing car sales. Add low gas prices and you can imagine how sales are for electric car dealers. I am NOT putting my business on hold. I will continue with my original plan. I will continue to make electric cars available to the public as long as I can pay my rent. My original goal was to be an example to other Americans and to help others be examples as well. I am still doing that. I knew when I started my business that gasoline prices would rise and fall and my sales would rise and fall with them. I developed a business plan that allowed me to stay on track through lean times and good times. I am no billionaire but I was able to figure it out. Now, if I was in this for the money only, it would be time to close up shop or put my business on hold and see what happens in the spring. I am not in this for the money. I live in Leavenworth Kansas. Many of my neighbors are serving or will serve in Iraq and Afghanistan. I am in this because I don’t want to see another young person get their legs blown off so I can drive to the grocery store. I am in this because I don’t want to see a little girl crying because her Mom didn’t come back from Iraq. I am in this because I don’t want to see our country crippled and fall into chaos because the Middle East decides to stop selling oil to us because Iran started a nuclear war. Is Iran putting their plans on “hold”? No they are not. Our energy situation is a disaster waiting to happen. I guess we could all cover our own butts until it becomes more profitable to be green again and hope nothing happens. Or we could put plans in place that will move forward on a solid track no matter what the situation. Sometimes you scale back, but nothing goes on hold. Hold means stop. I don’t like stop. Mark Higley Leavenworth Kansas

We are witnesses a paradigm shift unlike that which man has yet to see on a planetary wide scale. As fossil fuels and other natural resources become increasingly scarce so does the value of our current paper driven currency. The world has become a significantly smaller place as the internet replaces corporate media worldwide and we begin to understand that we are all the resources we need to build and grow a sustainable economy for ourselves and our posterity There is an ever advancing shift from an intangible economy driven by paper profits to things we need to use everyday. We now know that we can create the source of our wealth and well being locally in energy, education, food supply, housing, medicine and employment. We must grow the new energy sources in renewable energy from wind, solar and thermal. As we become more self reliant so too can we help others do the same. Awareness and the courage to move forward frees us to build a transformed world.