Beat rising Fuel Prices – The Bio Way
Following on from "The Ominous Trend" it would appear that nearly 3.6 million citizens of Jordan cannot afford the recent rise in fuel prices – quite a thought – in a country with a total population of almost 6m.
One would have hoped that the State would get serious about alternative sources of energy, thereby reducing our dependency on fossil fuel and in particular diesel currently distributed by the JPRC with a high sulphur content - a toxin that contributes to air pollution. Coupled with the dubious and illicit acts of 'mixing' lower grade fuels with 'super' and even 'unleaded' by some unscrupulous private dealers (many outside Amman, ok, not so many within Amman itself) – we now have a wonderful cauldron of pollution oozing into our children's lungs.
And what of solar heating and wind energy – natural assets that Jordan has in abundance (researched for many years by the RSS and other concerned parties and yet the results of which are probably languishing on some government shelf)?
While countries from China to Turkey have subsidized the conversion of fleets of buses and taxis (millions of them) from fuel to liquefied gas and even biofuels, thereby substantially reducing pollution and the cost to the pocket overnight, we continue to rape our fragile environment.
Consider what a small town municipal council in Germany is successfully doing: converting used cooking oil from all the towns' restaurants into fuel that keeps the fleet of public sector buses running for most of the year. Ingenious!
Biofuels are being taken seriously by citizens the world over – even now in America http://www.livegreengoyellow.com/ because they don't pollute and impoverish as fossil fuels do – in our case 3.6 million citizens. Plugging the gap with cash handouts and investing in shale oil extraction …. comes up short on many fronts.
When you can create a cheap renewable energy source by growing corn and rapeseed and by using simple domestic and agricultural bi-products such as vegetable oil, straw, chicken droppings and rice husks – not to mention Mother Nature (sun, wind) - isn't it incumbent on the Government to do so?
Check out these links:
http://www.biodiesel.co.uk/
http://www.biofuels.ca/
www.journeytoforever.org/biofuels
www.participate.net/oilchange (This one's great, came about as a result of the film Syriana)
J
One would have hoped that the State would get serious about alternative sources of energy, thereby reducing our dependency on fossil fuel and in particular diesel currently distributed by the JPRC with a high sulphur content - a toxin that contributes to air pollution. Coupled with the dubious and illicit acts of 'mixing' lower grade fuels with 'super' and even 'unleaded' by some unscrupulous private dealers (many outside Amman, ok, not so many within Amman itself) – we now have a wonderful cauldron of pollution oozing into our children's lungs.
And what of solar heating and wind energy – natural assets that Jordan has in abundance (researched for many years by the RSS and other concerned parties and yet the results of which are probably languishing on some government shelf)?
While countries from China to Turkey have subsidized the conversion of fleets of buses and taxis (millions of them) from fuel to liquefied gas and even biofuels, thereby substantially reducing pollution and the cost to the pocket overnight, we continue to rape our fragile environment.
Consider what a small town municipal council in Germany is successfully doing: converting used cooking oil from all the towns' restaurants into fuel that keeps the fleet of public sector buses running for most of the year. Ingenious!
Biofuels are being taken seriously by citizens the world over – even now in America http://www.livegreengoyellow.com/ because they don't pollute and impoverish as fossil fuels do – in our case 3.6 million citizens. Plugging the gap with cash handouts and investing in shale oil extraction …. comes up short on many fronts.
When you can create a cheap renewable energy source by growing corn and rapeseed and by using simple domestic and agricultural bi-products such as vegetable oil, straw, chicken droppings and rice husks – not to mention Mother Nature (sun, wind) - isn't it incumbent on the Government to do so?
Check out these links:
http://www.biodiesel.co.uk/
http://www.biofuels.ca/
www.journeytoforever.org/biofuels
www.participate.net/oilchange (This one's great, came about as a result of the film Syriana)
J
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