Posted by
theguardian777 on Monday, April 14, 2008 1:11:16 PM
Tho’ I am sending this invitation to our brothers all over the Americas who speak English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Ketchwa and Tupy/Guarani, I will write it in the universal language of trade and transport, English, so that all may understand the essence of this call to arms, and save me some time.
Whether you believe humans have caused global warming, or not, we humans are all far too dependent upon petroleum, and the greedy, power-crazed men who control that resource.
Our brothers in Brazil have made great progress in breaking their oil addiction with ethanol, but no other government has heard the people’s cry for mandates to force the auto manufacturers to provide us with the appropriate vehicles to use it.
The Midwestern U.S. has also made some progress with ethanol, biodiesel and straight vegetable oil (SVO), tho’ we are far from curing the problem, as the people control less and less of the production each year, and we have few vehicles designed to make use of these pure renewable fuels, or even significant percentage blends of them.
If we are ever to solve this problem, the people will have to band together in a cooperative effort to provide ourselves with affordable transportation solutions.
We have waited since the Arab Oil Embargo of 1973 for Detroit to provide solutions, but they refuse to even provide us with cars that have better fuel economy than the Model A Ford had eighty years ago (about 25 mpg). In fact, we had higher gas mileage cars from the Japanese and Germans in the late 1970’s than they are supplying today!
Thirty years of the consumer’s cry for affordable transportation have fallen on deaf ears!
In the late 1990’s, I had the great honor to work with one of Argentina’s most-renowned automotive engineers, Heriberto Pronello, on promoting the Mini Auto Popular (MAP), a cooperative effort of 30 to 40 after-market auto parts manufacturers in Argentina.
This beautiful little car was nearly ready for production when the politics of big business killed it by cutting off the government funding which had brought it that far.
Such a waste of taxpayer’s money we usually think only happens in the U.S., but the tentacles of this monster encompass the globe and make this a global struggle to liberate all of humanity from the stranglehold of the petrochemical industrial complex.
In this case, man’s liberation could never be effected by bullets, but must be done by the common man joining with his neighbor in a peaceful effort to finish bringing this little Coop commuter car to production in every country on Earth.
To move our auto technology forward, the X-Prize Foundation and Progressive Insurance have recently teamed up to provide a $10 Million Dollar prize for the first viable production vehicle to achieve 100 Mpg!
We can do this, and we can win this prize, if we are willing to work together, just like our forefathers shared their field work and scarce farm equipment to build everything we have today. We have the brains, the brawn and the material, all we need is the will!
The Creator has provided everyone with some useful talent that we could use in this struggle to beat the big money boys to this goal. We will turn down no one’s help.
I am calling for all who care about our future to join me, join AMASS (the American Mutual Association for a Sustainable Society), keep up with my reports on tribulationwatch.blogtownhall.com, and volunteer your hands and minds to help make this happen.
Larry M. Aden, 2694 180th Street, Nemaha, Iowa 50567, 712-636-4490
Let OPEC eat their oil!