America's Energy Future Walks a Thin Line

By Frosty Wooldridge

Denver, Colorado--This past weekend, I watched thousands of riders travel to the famed Sturgis motorcycle rally in South Dakota. At one gas station, they piled in line with over 30 bikers waiting to pump gas into their cycles. Over 400,000 motorcycle riders attend the rally annually. Bikes outnumber cars 100 to 1.

If you look at expressways crisscrossing the United States as well as the astounding amount of traffic, I couldn’t help wondering, “What happens when America runs out of oil?” Refer to our incredible use of oil by watching the oil use in gallons ticker: www.willyoujoinus.com

Each day, Americans burn a whopping 20 million barrels of oil. We import 12 million out of that 20 million. On top of that, the entire world of humans burns 82 million barrels of oil every day! To give you an idea of how much oil we burn daily, if you take an oil drum, it measures 20 inches in diameter at the base. If you multiply 82 million times 20 inches, (place 82 million drums side by side), it equals a belt of oil stretching 25,000 miles around the Earth at the equator. We fill them up every day, burn them down and fill them up again to burn them down again. Dr. John Tanton, publisher of The Social Contract at (www.thesocialcontract.com), authored, “How Many is Twenty Million?”

Since it remains a finite resource, how much longer can we burn that much oil at that rate? Answer: not much longer!

How much oil do we burn annually worldwide? If you take 82 million barrels, (that’s 42 gallons to a drum), burned daily—it adds up to a cubic mile of oil annually. It exceeds 29.9 billion barrels of oil annually, year in and year out, decade in and decade out.

In order to drive cars, boats, planes and fuel industry, Americans use 20 million barrels of oil daily while the rest of the world burns 62 million barrels.

If you remember your science, it took two billion years to produce all the oil on this planet. In other words, when oil reserves decline, we exhaust the single major energy source that drives our civilization and most other societies on this planet.

To show how much energy oil provides the U.S. annually, Michael Brownlee of www.transitionbouldercounty.com provided an astounding graph of one cubic mile of oil. That’s how much oil the world burns each year! That equals the same amount of energy provided by 52 nuclear power plants built every year for 50 years or 104 operating coal-fired electrical plants built every year for 50 years or 32,000 wind turbines built every year for 50 years—and in continuous operation—or 91,250,000 solar panels built every year for 50 years.

In other words, oil produces dramatically incredible amounts of energy that we cannot and will not be able to duplicate in the coming years.

“As we go from this happy hydrocarbon bubble we have reached now to a renewable energy resource economy, which we must do in this century, will the “civil” part of civilization survive? As we both know there is no way that alternative energy sources can supply the amount of per capita energy we enjoy now, much less for the 9 billion expected by 2050. And energy is what keeps this game going. We are involved in a Faustian bargain—selling our economic souls for the luxurious life of the moment, but sooner or later the price has to be paid.”
Walter Youngquist

For a more thorough picture, read Richard Heinberg’s book: Peak Everything: facing a century of declines.

You will find it rather sobering. As we add three million people to our country annually via immigration, we burn even more oil faster. As the world population adds 77 million annually, we obliterate all resources faster.

Therefore, what will we do when the oil runs out? Fact: nothing in the world and nothing on the horizon equates to the energy density and output of oil. No technology can duplicate it.

Today, oil user giant China at 1.3 billion population and growing by eight million annually, adds 27,000 cars to its highways every week! By 2030, China expects to burn 98 million barrels of oil daily. That’s more than the world burns in 2009 each day! (Source: The Long Emergency by James Howard Kunstler)

Yet, the USA’s leaders and citizens don’t possess the foggiest clue as to what awaits them! We see no conservation policies, no plans, no nothing. Just burn baby burn and drill baby drill!

What might save our civilization from ultimate collapse when oil runs out around 2040 or sooner? (Source: End of the Age of Oil, Hubbert Curve via Google)

If we possess the common sense of a Canadian goose, we need to implement massive conservation efforts. We need mandate 100 mile per gallon vehicles worldwide. We need to move toward wind power, water power, sail power, solar and wave power. We need electrical vehicles that run off the sun.


In the end, no matter how much we conserve, we need to stabilize US and world population to live within the carrying capacity of our civilization. We need to move on those actions with great haste! We need a “US Sustainable Population Policy”; “US Sustainable Immigration Policy”; “US Water Conservation Policy”; “US Energy Conservation Policy”.

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To take action: First and foremost, join www.numbersusa.com and become one of nearly a million Americans making impact with pre-written faxes and phone calls to change immigration policies toward a stable future. Bi-partisan and highly effective!

Second, join www.thesocialcontract.com for up to date information via the Social Contract Quarterly. Exceptional publication to keep you informed.

www.fairus.org ; www.vdare.com ; www.alipac.us ; www.firecoalition.com ; www.cairco.org ; www.limitstogrowth.com ; www.capsweb.org ; www.populationmedia.org ; www.worldpopulationbalance.org ; LimitsToGrowth.org

America on the Brink: The Next Added 100 Million Americans by Frosty Wooldridge. Describes the ramifications of sheer overpopulation loading of the USA within 30 years. For a copy: 1 888 280 7715.

Visit this site for a rendition of Colorado Governor Lamm’s speech: “How to Destroy America”
http://usawakeup.org/HowToDestroyAmerica.htm

Must see DVD: “Blind Spot”
This movie illustrates America’s future without oil, water and other resources to keep this civilization functioning. It’s a brilliant educational movie!


In Canada: Tim Murray,
Director Immigration Watch Canada www.immigrationwatch.org
Vice President Biodiversity First http://biodiversityfirst.googlepages.com/index.htm
Blog http://sinkinglifeboat.blogspot.com


Watch the DVD movie: “Blind Spot”—Exceptional movie with top scientists candidly discussion what we face as a civilization if we continue on our hyper-population growth path. www.blindspotdoc.com
Please visit Annie Leonard at www.storyofstuff.com for a compelling and highly interesting 20 minute video concerning our high consumption, highly wasteful and unsustainable society. She educates and provides avenues for you to make a difference.

Visit this web site by Chris Martenson: http://www.chrismartenson.com/environmental_data

In Colorado: visit www.soprisfoundation.org for information how you can network with like-minded folks to create a more sustainable future for Colorado and other states.

View CNN’s “Planet in Peril” with Anderson Cooper and Lisa Ling:

http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2008/planet.in.peril/
Ghost of Thomas Paine—compelling video of common sense
http://www.lawatchdog.com/index.html#anchor_2296


BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA: D.C.: (202)224-2854 president@whitehouse.gov

Books to read: “The Long Emergency” by James Howard Kunstler
“Peak Everything” by Richard Heinberg
“Too Many People” by Lindsey Grant


Become a member of “Frosty’s Press Agent Corps” whereby you volunteer a few hours to send out emails to top TV and radio hosts to offer top speakers on America’s overpopulation crisis driven by unending immigration. Email frostyw@juno.com and receive two informational letters showing you exactly what to do.

Roy Beck's "IMMIGRATION BY THE NUMBERS" is the single best educational appreciation of America's future if we allow ourselves to add another 100 million people. Just click on this site for the most sobering experience of your children's future.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4094926727128068265&q=roy+beck&hl=en

Roy Beck gives a graphic presentation of our fate if we continue to allow legal and illegal immigration to swamp this country. If you have children, you will be particular unnerved at their fate. I know Roy Beck personally and his integrity and knowledge stand at the top. Pass this web site 14 minute video far and wide across America to educate everyone you know. We either stop this human tsunami or the future of this country will be much like Rome's. We must, as a nation and a civilization, move to secure our country from this massive, unrelenting population overload from a line that never ends. This will be the most compelling 14 minute video of your life.

Once you see it, go to my web site for action items www.frostywooldridge.com and join www.numbersusa.com to become a weekly faxer of pre written letters and join the phone calling teams.

Bob Woodruff of ABC asked input from all citizens concerning the future of our planet. Go to www.earth2100.tv for a sobering reality check as to what we face and to what I have been writing about for the past 20 years. Our ‘window’ to change to a balanced population and non-polluting energy diminishes every day we listen to irresponsible media and thus ignore the blatant symptoms manifesting all over America and the planet.

From: Frosty Wooldridge

This three minute interview with Adam Schrager on “Your Show” May 4, 2008, NBC Channel 9 News, addresses the ramifications of adding 120 million people to USA in 35 years and six million people to Colorado as to water shortages, air pollution, loss of farmland, energy costs and degradation of quality of life. In the interview, Frosty Wooldridge explains the ramifications of adding 120 million people to the USA in 35 years. He advances new concepts such as a “Colorado Carrying Capacity Policy”; “Colorado Environmental Impact Policy”; “Colorado Water Usage Policy”; “Colorado Sustainable Population Policy”. Nationally, the USA needs a "National Sustainable Population Policy" to determine the carrying capacity of this nation for the short and long term. Wooldridge is available for interviews on radio and TV having interviewed on ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN and FOX.

Go to: www.frostywooldridge.com and click on “Audio/Video” tab

Frosty Wooldridge, math/science teacher, has bicycled across six continents – from the Arctic to the South Pole – as well as six times across the USA, coast to coast and border to border. In 2005, he bicycled from the Arctic Circle, Norway to Athens, Greece. He presents “The Coming Population Crisis in America: and what you can do about it” to civic clubs, church groups, high schools and colleges. He works to bring about sensible world population balance at www.frostywooldridge.com