Oil-rich Bushes and Y2K: A volatile combination.
3/30/2000
The View from Marrs by Jim Marrs challenges bureaucratic secrecy and the status quo. Big Media watch out!
A reader asked me if I thought oil companies have squelched the development of alternative fuels. In light of the present whopping increases in gasoline prices, it was a most relevant question.
The question triggered years of pent-up frustration on my part, due to the American public's usual inattention to energy issues, as well as ignorance of alternatives. We should all thank a mass media owned by the same people who hold large amounts of stock in petroleum companies.
Of course, "they" have squelched non-petroleum technology! It's as certain as the fact that the current gas "shortage" is just as phony as the one in the 1970s.
As a news reporter back then, I quickly discovered that while everyone in the big cities was panic stricken over red flags at the service stations, oil tankers outside the Houston ship channel were kept steaming in circles because there was no place to off-load their cargo. All the tank farms were filled to the brim.
I am hearing the same stories today regarding tankers off the East Coast. And what was the upshot of the 1970s phony shortage? Gasoline doubled in price, from an average of 50 cents per gallon in Texas to close to $1.50. When it settled back down to about $1.10 to 1.20 per gallon, everyone was so relieved they never thought to question what had happened. Most of the mom and pop independent gas stations were driven out of business, and the large corporations added control over retail outlets to their existing control over production, refining, and distribution. The same tactics are now underway with life's most basic need: food.
What's the purpose behind the current "shortage"? First is the Y2K Bug, despite the mass media's characterization of that bugaboo as a "non event." Congressional testimony last summer revealed that none of our refineries would be ready for the Y2K rollover. Surely enough, beginning January 1, there have been a series of refinery fires, explosions, broken pipelines, etc., bringing down production, both here and around the world.
I saw a small item recently in the news (buried back by the obituaries) to the effect that OPEC countries are trying to order large amounts of computer chips. This couldn't be because of Y2K problems, could it?
The New World Order boys (and if you don't know who they are, be sure a get a copy of my new book, Rule by Secrecy, due out from HarperCollins Publishers April 23) know all of this, and probably could have done something about it, except an oil shortage right now plays into their agenda.
As for the second reason for the shortage, consider how most Democrats are not too excited over Al Gore. So far, he has run a credible campaign because the economy appears to be robust and no one wanted to rock the boat. It appears now that he is in a close race with the Shrub (that's what we call that little Bush in Texas!).
But this will all soon change. By summertime, the increases in gasoline prices will not only continue but will begin impacting the entire economy. After all, most forms of transportation are propelled by gasoline.
As the national economy takes a downturn, perhaps in conjunction with a shaky or even collapsed stock market, the voters will begin to feel uneasy and will stampede to the polls to elect a good Republican to salvage the economy. Gas prices will stabilize at around $2 a gallon (give or take a quarter or 50 cents) and we'll all be told by the corporate mass media that the system works. It certainly does, but only for those who have the money and power to make it work for them...like the Bush family, who, after all, made their millions in oil!
Of course, it really doesn't matter which of the two major candidates gets elected, since both are pawns of the New World Order chieftains of Wall Street. But Bush would appear to be the more controllable of the two, as it was his grandfather, father and brothers in the savings-and-loan business, which cost this nation both bailout money as well as tremendous debt and dead relatives due to distant wars.
I won't even begin to launch into a sermon about alternative energy, which is a misnomer since energy is energy. Why should everything other than petroleum fuel be termed "alternative"? Just understand that fuel can be derived from water. That's right, plain old H2O. After all, it is two parts hydrogen, one of the most plentiful, inexpensive, and non-polluting fuels known to man. NASA officials have announced they are looking for water on both the moon and Mars is use as a fuel source. An astute reader asked, "If we have the portable technology to convert water to gaseous fuels, why can't the auto or oil industries do the same to get us out of the oil shortage/dependency problem?"
This is a good question, considering that there's a massive amount of literature dealing with the benefits of a hydrogen economy. Materials date back more than 30 years. Why, then, don't we have hydrogen-powered vehicles and turbines today?
I covered a story in the early 1970s concerning a man who had developed a steam generator the size of a coffee can. The machine burned hydrogen as fuel and created superheated steam from the coolant water. I watched this little thing spew --at the flip of a switch-- steam nearly 100 feet with no slow buildup of heat and wasted fuel, which is the case with a conventional boiler. The gizmo could turn electric turbines or replenish so-called "depleted" oil wells by liquefying down-hole sludge. What happened to this wonder? Thanks to government duplicity and corporate manipulations, this technology is still not available to the public and its inventor turned up a "suicide".
This is only one story of many that I came across as energy editor for a major metropolitan newspaper.
There's an attendant problem with new inventions. Most people believe that if they invent a truly innovative energy source, it can be protected by registering with the U.S. Patent Office. What they don't understand is that by doing so, the Pentagon, the NSA, CIA, and everyone else with government computer access will also have the invention. Just ask the folks who had their PROMIS software stolen by the U.S. Justice Department.
If new technology is indeed effective and could be a threat to the current energy monopoly, it will be declared an issue of "national security," and the inventor will quickly be out of the picture. Either he'll be bought out, squeezed out, or will just give up. Just ask Nicola Tesla or the young man who back in the 1970s developed a carburetor that delivered more than 100 miles to a gallon of gas.
Certain individuals on this planet who control multinational corporations maintain incredibly tight control over the basics of life --- energy, medicine, transportation, communications, and information. Think about it: Even Bill Gates must pay the utility company each month and he, like the rest of us, gets his news and information primarily from the mass media.
We have been conditioned by the corporate mass media not to consider true energy alternatives.
For example, I once interviewed an energy "expert" at a time when I was really getting interested in solar energy. When I asked why we were not converting to solar energy, I was told that it would take solar panels covering the entire state of Arizona to provide enough electricity to power the city of Los Angeles.
While this response is most probably true, it typified this "expert's" conditioned thinking. His statement was true only under the assumption that all electricity must be centrally generated. But what if every home in L.A. had its own solar panels covering the roof, and all of the panels fed into the grid. Since everyone wouldn't be home using electricity at the same time, that might be enough to power the city with little or no power-plant pollution.
But of course, that would present the utility monopolies with a gigantic problem. If you didn't pay your electric bill, how could they make a cloud hang over your house and block the sun?
We must shake free of the straitjacket of conventional thought foisted off on us by the corporate monopolies through their ownership of the mass media and their power over government.