The poetry of the Earth is never
dead…
The poetry of the earth is ceasing
never.
Keats,
On the Grasshopper and Cricket
Many people criticized the Obama
Administration for pulling out of Iraq , stating that the American
people owed it to themselves to keep the fight going. But fight for what? Oil?
Surely this plan failed a long time
ago, as the American/British adventure has turned against its original planners
in the previous Bush Administration, as per the observation of Senator Barack
Obama, President of the United States of America as stated in the article “Obama hails US
operation in Iraq”, published Wednesday 1 September 2010 Last updated at
15:11 GMT, BBC News.
A refocus on fixing the American
Economy instead of wasting countless millions on a needless war, especially
after the death of Pat Tillman, a quarterback with a promising future, killed
under suspicious circumstances yet to be full explained to the still grieving
families. If something good has come out of the troop withdrawal, it has been
the fact that the Americans, despite conspiracy theorists claims, needed to
focus on Afghanistan
and its myriad landscape that is a perfect hiding place for Taliban insurgents
and Al-Qaeda.
I say “conspiracy theorists”, as the
disclosure in the New York Times on Sunday June 13, 2010 AD of vast quantities
of mineral wealth, particularly Rare Earth Metals, means that, if developed in
an environmentally responsible way, preferably in partnership with the
Americans, could become a huge financial windfall for the Afghan people and a
boon to the America Economy as stated in the article “U.S.
identifies vast mineral riches in Afghanistan”, Published June 13, 2010 By
JAMES RISEN, The New York Times.
I am sure this has been discussed
before, so what harm can I do if I introduce a new angle? John Public gets his
pipe going, covered from head to foot in Muslim garb, eyes shielded from the
rising heat that is the Kandahar
Desert as I discuss the
American All-Electric Vehicle adventure.
I am sure that with the news of
previous months, one can now see the reasoning behind the recent actions of
Senator Barack Obama, President of the United States of America, lending to his
description as a “Venture Capitalist-in-Chief”, going down a road that appears
to be a rather tumultuous one for the Government of Jamaica as it relates to
Venture Capital investment in Silicon Valley as stated in the article “Obama:
Clean energy's Venture Capitalist-in-Chief”, published August 5, 2010,
5:00PM EST By Mike Dorning, POLITICS & POLICY, BusinessWeek.
A return
to manufacturing, putting pride in the statement “Made in the USA” by ensuring Research
and Development is no longer an export to the People’s Republic of China is a
noble aspiration as stated in the article “The
Other U.S. Energy Crisis: Lack of R&D”, published June 17, 2010,
12:01AM EST by Peter Coy, POLITICS & POLICY, BusinessWeek and in the prior article “America's
Green innovation Problem”, published May 3, 2010, 4:41PM EST By Rob
Atkinson and Devon Swezey, BusinessWeek
– VIEWPOINT.
Manufacturing of the future of the
American economy, probably the ultimate expression of the American pastime:
Automobiles. He has also, in the same breath, committed taxpayers money to
likes of Silicon Valley Venture capital firms focused on Clean Energy
technology as stated in the article “Obama commits
billions to solar firms”, published July 4, 2010 11:34 AM PDT by Reuters, CNET News - Green Tech with the hopes of
stimulating the Solar Power Industry, a more firm commitment towards a natural
sustainable environment and more importantly, beating the People’s Republic of
China in the race to develop All-Electric Vehicles
This time around though, it is not
gas guzzlers of the 1960’s, when oil was cheap and everyone had money to burn,
before the Saudis showed them that they too could cause a crisis. Revisiting
arguments as it relates to the possibility of a mass adoption of All-Electric
Vehicles if prices are on par with those of regular vehicles as opined in the
article “Will
electric cars spread like cell phones or washing machines?”, published May
14, 2010 11:49 AM PDT by Martin LaMonica, CNET
News - Green Tech.
Much in the same way gadget centric
Japanese and Americans have adopted smart phones, vacuum cleaners and washing
machines does little to assuage the fear of US Automakers, wary of a big
investment going the way of the Bubble.
Analysts Deloitte Consulting
predicted an adoption of All-Electric Vehicles in the United States of America
of 2% to 5.6% by 2020, numbering between 285,000 and 840,000 units. The other
limitation to rapid adoption in 2011, the Year of the All-Electric Vehicle, is
the availability of rapid charging outlets.
This is akin to the Industry
standardized Electric Charging Station by Coulomb Electric being installed in
the Big Apple otherwise known as NYC (New York City) with plans to install
4,600 such chargers in Austin, Texas, Detroit; Los Angeles, New York; Orlando,
Florida, Sacramento, California, the San Jose/San Francisco Bay Area, Redmond,
Washington and Washington, D.C.
These recharging stations,
strategically located, are locatable using an app downloadable on a Apple
iPhone, Blackberry or Google android powered smart phones as stated in the
article “Network
Web-Savvy EV-charging stations on tap”, published June 2, 2010 7:57 AM PDT
by Martin LaMonica, CNET News - Green Tech.
Thus, Automakers, still worried
about these issues as suggested in the articles “Auto industry pros
counter electric-car hype”, published October 13, 2010 10:03 AM PDT by
Martin LaMonica, CNET News - Green Tech. Also
as stated in the article “Automakers push ahead
on plug-ins despite unknowns”, published October 14, 2010 11:10 AM PDT by
Martin LaMonica, CNET News - Green Tech can
take some comfort for a recent analysts J.D. Power and Associates.
The analyst, is projecting a modest
7% of the total number of vehicles in the United States of America being All-Electric
Vehicles by 2020, which, depending on how you look at the glass of water at the
midway mark, can be an omen of short term popularity driven good fortune or a
bubble that at least grows slowly and is steady and not a fad as stated in the
article “Report:
Hybrid and EV sales to grow but remain small”, published October 27, 2010
7:26 AM PDT by Martin LaMonica, CNET News -
Green Tech.
The outlook for All-Electric
Vehicles in Jamaica, if Kent LaCroix,
President of the Automobile Dealers Association (ADA) were to be believed,
would be bleak and unlikely as stated in the article “Is
Jamaica ready for Electric vehicles ?”, published Friday, October 01, 2010,
The Jamaica Observer.
But this outlook is too heavily
tied to a past based on Fossil fuels, which eats away on average approximately
US$2.8 billion per annum from our GDP (Gross Domestic Product), especially as
the Japanese are moving away from the Otto Cycle engine and towards the
All-Electric Vehicles in a rapid adoption curve accelerated by the hefty Japanese
tax on motorists that is older than four (4) year
Manifesting now as a shortage of
spare parts, forcing many local auto parts dealers out of the used parts trade
as stated in the article “Spare
Parts shortage hits used-car Trade”, published Friday October 22 2010, The Jamaica Gleaner.
Japan and not the People’s Republic
of China, as the analyst J.D. Power and Associates opines, may be the real
driving force that may actually inspire and spur a rapid transition to
All-Electric Vehicles
These All-Electric Vehicles use
batteries made using lithium, hence in one single sentence, the significance of
the Afghanistan
discovery. Also explains why investor Warren Buffett is investing so heavily in
Chinese battery turned All-Electric Vehicle manufacturer BYD as stated in the
article “BYD
Dreams of Electric Cars”, published June 28, 2010, 3:10PM EST by Inder
Sidhu, BOOK EXCERPT - BusinessWeek.
Whether of not it is a coincidence,
like the oil spill and the delinquent taxpayers in the form of the cousins of
the bacteria Oleispirea antarctica
and Oceaniserpentilla haliotis eating
up a suspended plume of oil as stated in the article “Microbes may be to
thank for BP oil spill cleanup”, published August 25, 2010 10:42 AM PDT by
Candace Lombardi, CNET News- Green Tech.
The Obama Administration’s blind
luck in stumbling across this geological goldmine after deciding to refocus on
Afghanistan is of great economic significance both to Afghanistan and the
United States of America
It tips the balance of the future of
All-Electric Vehicles in favour of the Americans, as the People’s Republic of
China already has an advantage in terms of large deposits of Rare Earth Metals
within People’s Republic of China as stated in the article “China clean tech's
rare-earth advantage”, published August 12, 2010 5:37 AM PDT by Reuters, CNET News - Green Tech.
A separation from Fossil Fuels is
not only a push for vehicle efficiency as stated in the article “Autos would have to
get 62mpg under new plan”, published October 2, 2010 6:00 AM PDT, by
Reuters, CNET News - Green Tech or creating
jobs.
But Homeland as well as an
International Security issue relating directly to United States of America
purchase of oil, which may be indirectly fuelling terrorism against themselves
and their Allies as stated in the article “U.S.
Navy buys 20,000 gallons of algae fuel”, published September 15, 2010 10:36
AM PDT by Candace Lombardi, CNET News -
Green Tech.
Silicon Valley, what is not to
love?
This is probably the main driving
force behind the push towards Renewable Energy, as Oil, being the US Army’s
Achilles Heel, needs to be removed from the battlefield. The published 2009 Report by the Center for
Naval Analyses signed by twelve (12) former US Generals and Admirals.
Effectively this markets the idea
that America purchase of Foreign Oil is a transfer of wealth that, albeit going
to a sovereign nation, may inadvertently be fuelling not only terrorism but
possibly nuclear proliferation and recommends that the US Military go Green to
reduce this flow of money out of the America Economy into the hands of its
enemies.
The fact that the People’s Republic
of China has expressed concern over suggestions of their advantage as a major
supplier of Rare Earth minerals such as Lithium, crucial to making the
lithium-ion Batteries needed for All-Electric Vehicles, being used as a
bargaining chip, as per the assertions of Wen, China's top economic official as
stated in the article “Premier:
China won't block rare earth exports”, published Friday October 8 2010 4:41
am ET, By ELAINE KURTENBACH, AP Business Writer, Yahoo! News should not be taken lightly.
Thus, I would strongly recommend to
the Government of the United States of America
to remove the Red Tape and have American owned Mining companies or companies
friendly to American interests such as BHP Billington quickly set up shop in Afghanistan .
In the meantime, developing an
active National Strategy for recycling electronics, a chief source of Rare
Earth metals as stated in the article “Rare-Earth metal
recycling needed to power Green Tech”, published May 17, 2010 7:31 AM PDT
by Martin LaMonica, CNET News - Green Tech.
A fact that, ironically, the
Japanese have figured out, is more profitable as it relates to Gold.
This is because wastewater coming
out of the Japanese Industrial area is rich in Gold in concentrations higher
than being extracted from their goldmines as stated in the article “Japan's
sewers paved with gold”, published 2:59AM GMT 02 Feb 2009 by Danielle
Demetriou in Tokyo, The UK Telegraph.
Perhaps Jamaica needs to seriously
look into recycling in general, a source of significant economic savings during
this Recessionary Period.
More Time.
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