[Grovenet] America's Trillion-Dollar Baby

Wed Jan 24 20:32:03 PST 2007

Neither the anti Prop-37 activists or those who are trying to make a
windfall from Prop-37 are in charge. They're both noisy, but it's only
noise. The legislative and legal systems are now in charge. Claims are being
filed, and the legislative branch of the government will make a
determination on each one. 

We have a  system that works. Don't get distracted by the people on the
street corners (of Grovenet or the streets) waving signs. The best they can
hope for is to change the rules some day in the future, if enough people
agree with them. 

Where did you get this figure?

"To answer your question, Ron. We will need 20% less than what we now 
consume to be competitive in the future. What will the future be like to 
achieve that? Who decides the best path?"

I think you're saying we need 20% more energy, not less. If it were less
we'd already have a surplus. So we need 20% more? If so, then we know what
we need to do. 

Who will decide how to achieve that number? In the USA it will be the
scariest body of them all. It will be the same group who elected James
Carter, Bill Clinton and both Bushes to the Presidency: the American voter. 

And that's why I campaign for a better informed, better educated voter! 

But, please, before we rush to the polls, where did you find that number?

Ron D'Eau Claire 

-----Original Message-----
From: grovenet-bounces at rdrop.com [mailto:grovenet-bounces at rdrop.com] On
Behalf Of Steven
Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2007 8:13 PM
To: Forest Grove local interests list
Subject: Re: [Grovenet] America's Trillion-Dollar Baby

I was thinking of the prop 37 landowners vs county and FG's Morelli vs 
Metro stuff. We can't seem to get the 'who is in charge' thing straight. I
notice that we seem to be focused on commuting to work. Live close to 
work. Stuff us all closer to work.
Is that the largest consumption of energy? Is the goal to have a 
bazillion employees making widgets? Who would be the consumer ins such a 
world?
Is the goal to stuff us in close to a job?
We could easily live in 300sqft per person units. A building 320' x 320' 
would have about 100,000sqft of living space. Enough for over 340 
people. Multiply that by 30 floors and you have enough room for 10,000 
people. If it costs too much to have this in the cold north of Oregon or 
North Dakota, we could decided to move all living to temperate climates. 
The entire population of Oregon and Washington could live in less than 
1000 of these buildings in eureka, CA. We could move all manufacturing 
from the northwest to there, too.
Food transportation? Convert all organic mater to hydrocarbons. We can 
recreate the perfect food, EcoFu. It would have all the nourishment the 
body needs.This could be manufactured local to the residences so that 
transport would be minimal.
Manufacturing needs would be minimal, there isn't a lot that will fit in 
my studio apartment.

Now, on the other hand. I remember a book about how to be self 
sustaining on 40 acres of land. Maybe it is more or maybe it is less. 
What if the answer is for each person/family unit to have a certain 
amount of land that they are in charge of. Oxygen production from plants 
might be a bonus. Or maybe we could each have a garden, like a Victory 
Garden. Maybe we don't commute to work, but use technology to work from 
home.

Metro has set us in motion for one of these viable options. Which one?

To answer your question, Ron. We will need 20% less than what we now 
consume to be competitive in the future. What will the future be like to 
achieve that? Who decides the best path?

Ron D'Eau Claire wrote:
> Man, Steven, you become absolutely paralyzed at the idea that anyone
> might tell you what to do!
>
> How do you survive a day knowing there are laws that you must obey or
> you'll be arrested, or work you must do or you'll lose our job, or 
> that the choices of where you live, what you wear and where you go on 
> your 'own time' are in large measure limited by the choices of other 
> people?
>
> And what do such phobias have to do with wanting to know how much
> energy the USA will need to regain a competitive position in the world 
> for our children while protecting the qualities that make life here
attractive for us?
>
> Ron D'Eau Claire
>
>
>   
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