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Energy Victory: Winning the War on Terror by Breaking Free of Oil
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In this compelling argument for a new direction in US energy policy, world-renowned engineer and best-selling author Robert Zubrin lays out a bold plan for breaking the economic stranglehold that the OPEC oil cartel has on our country and the world. Zubrin presents persuasive evidence that our decades-long relationship with OPEC has resulted in the looting of our economy, the corruption of our political system, and now the funding and protection of terrorist regimes and movements that are committed to our destruction. Debunking the false solutions and myths that have deterred us from taking necessary action, Zubrin exposes the fakery that has allowed many politicians - including current US president George W Bush - to posture that they are acting to resolve this problem while actually doing nothing significant toward that goal. Zubrin's plan is straightforward and practical. He argues that if Congress passed a law requiring that all new cars sold in the USA be flex-fueled - that is, able to run on any combination of gasoline or alcohol fuels - this one action would destroy the monopoly that the oil cartel has maintained on the globe's transportation fuel supply, opening it up to competition from alcohol fuels produced by farmers world-wide. According to Zubrin's estimates, within three years of enactment, such a regulation would put 50 million cars on the road in the USA capable of running on high-alcohol fuels, and at least an equal number overseas. This book shows how we could be using fuel dollars that are now being sent to countries with ties to terrorism to help farmers here and abroad, boosting our own economy and funding world development. Furthermore, by switching to alcohol fuels, which pollute less than gasoline and are made from plants that draw carbon dioxide from the air, this plan will facilitate the world-wide economic growth required to eliminate global poverty without the fear of greenhouse warming. "Energy Victory" offers an exciting vision for a dynamic, new energy policy, which will go a long way toward safeguarding homeland security in the future and provide solutions for global warming and Third World development.
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Pages 357
Dimensions: Length: 8.9" Width: 6" Height: 0.9"
Weight: 1.05 lbs.
Binding Softcover
Release Date Apr 10, 2009
ISBN 1591027071
EAN 9781591027072
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 | Zubrin enlightens again. Fantastic book Dec 9, 2009 |
Dr Robert Zubrin does it again. Another great book. Robert doesn't hold any punches and shows why the Saudis and the royal family are murderous thugs using oil and control of OPEC to support world wide terrorism.
First thank you Robert for debunking using hydrogen as a fuel. I didn't know that it takes more energy using electrolysis of water to produce hydrogen and oxygen than the energy that can be obtained from hydrogen. I was a big hydrogen fan. Plus Robert debunks the infrastructure that would be required to sell, create, store and move massive amounts of hydrogen US wide for supplying cars and trucks. It wont work. Taught me a lot on that.
Robert explains why conservation by driving less and using smaller cars will not stop OPEC control of oil prices.
Robert shows how the Saudis are supporting massive world wide terrorism using oil profits and how they pay off US government officials to get what they want. Robert names names of those on the take on Carlyle Group boards getting money influenced by the Saudis.
Dr Zubrin shows how flex fuel cars are the way to go to destroy OPEC. YES I said to destroy OPEC so it cant raise its ugly head again to control oil prices and support terrorism.
Sorry Robert even with all the info you give on support of corn production for ethanol I can't agree with you pushing as much corn production for ethanol as possible. I know too many farmers (right next to me) that are growing as much corn for ethanol as they can. Water tables way down. Little water for anything else but corn growing for ethanol. Prices for corn for human consumption and animal feed has gone up drastically because of this. A smaller amount of corn growing for ethanol production would be better as US farmers are going overboard selling corn for ethanol. Maybe growing different crops that don't need as much water and raising the price for human and livestock food would be better for ethanol production.
However I can really support worldwide methanol production to use as a flex fuel in cars/trucks along with biomass energy production and bio diesel. Hey race car teams have been using methanol for years plus its safer too. Robert shows a women helped produce a methanol using car for Detroit car manufactures. It worked well and some methanol using cars were sold. Dr. Zubrin makes a compelling case for MANDATORY 100% flex fuel cars. All government officials should read Energy Victory and have a conscience and stop taking bribes and pay offs from the Saudis and make flex fuel cars 100% mandatory to help destroy OPEC grip on controlling oil prices forever.
Also lets start creating jobs in wind, solar, geothermal, natural gas,hydroelectric, CLEAN burning coal technology, and nuclear( as long as much better standards created for storage/disposal of spent fuel) to help get American off imported oil.
As Dr. Zubrin shows we are at the " break even" phase of fusion research. More jobs and money needed in fusion research to get us up to the "detonation phase" of the reaction where the reaction is able to sustain itself. This will allow future generations to have almost unlimited power for millions of years.
Right now drill baby drill. Lets have massive new oil and natural gas exploration in Alaska ,off California and Florida coasts, Texas and everywhere and bring this oil and natural gas finds to the US market.
In conclusion Energy Victory is a great book.Buy it! I wish government officials would read it and take note.
| | |  | Way Off Base - Oct 6, 2009 |
America is losing the 'War on Terror.' Saudi Arabia is the primary global financier of the Islamic terror cult - in 1972 its foreign exchange earnings were $2.7 billion, in 2006 they topped $200 billion. Over the same period our annual oil import bill grew from less than $4 billion to over $260 billion. Zubrin concludes we're being looted to finance a war against ourselves. Victory requires mandating all new cars in the U.S. be flex-fueled. Instead of buying arms for our enemies we could be selling tractors to Africa, etc.
Hydrogen is not the answer. When made by electrolysis, the process yields 85 units of hydrogen energy for every 100 units of electrical energy used. (There are also problems transporting hydrogen and establishing dispensing locations.) Zubrin also points out that a car that runs on compressed methane will be able to travel 3X as far as the same car on hydrogen stored in the same space. In addition, the methane would be cheaper.
'Conservation through gasoline efficiency is a losing strategy' for achieving energy independence. (However, it certainly would help.) The 'key issue in energy independence concerns the availability of liquid fuels' to power transportation. (Those focused on battery-assisted cars would take20issue with this.) Zubin proposes to take the world off the petroleum standard and put it on the alcohol standard.
However, there's a major problem with Zubin's recommendation, probably best put forward by Michael Rupert in his "A Presidential Energy Policy." Rupert tells us that it takes almost as much energy, if not more, to produce fuel from plant matter. (Confirmed by a college associate with a PhD. in Chemistry.) Meanwhile food prices and world hunger are rising as a result of biofuel programs. Further, the U.S. has no remaining grain reserves. Our biofuel goals are propped up by a federal 51 cent subsidy/gallon and a 54 cent/gallon tariff on ethanol imports. Bush II's goal of 15% gasoline replaced by biofuels would require the entire U.S. corn crop (40% of the world's supply). Further, about as much energy is used to create fertilizer as used to operate machines in the field and transport the product.
As for sugar cane, American farmers receive a subsidy for that crop, most successfully grown in Brazil. Substantially increasing its growth would require massive rainforest destruction.
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| | | | I'm a Brazilian unemployed agronomist Sep 18, 2009 |
I read this very good book, here in Brazil. I'm a Brazilian agronomist unemployed and I like to read books, about energy and biofuels.
This author of this book, Robert Zubrin, is an American NASA's aerospace engineer and author, best known for his advocacy of manned Mars exploration.
I'll show a dozen of excellents parts of this book:
1-Page 8: "OPEC has made their future clear; it will consist of repeated cyclic binges of vicious looting followed by recession, with each raid transferring further large increments of wealth and power to the cartel, and the reactionary Islamits and other totalitarians that stand behind it."
2-Page 9: "Since the time of the 1973 oil embargo, when OPEC first demonstrated its malevolence, America's leaders have repeatedly declared their commitment to achieve energy security but have accomplished nothing. There is not that much time left. We do not have another three decades to waste. Each looting cycle makes the enemy stronger and ever positioned to confound our efforts to scape."
3-Page 23:"As a method of achieving energy indepence, conservation throught gasoline efficiency is a losing stategy. It is like trying to use buckets to bail out a ship whose bottom has been rippen open."
4-Page 31:"If we are to win the critical energy battle, there's only way to do it. We must take ourselves - and the rest of the world - off the petroleum standard. Only by doing this can we destroy the economic power of our enenies at its very foundations. Only in this way can we transfer control of the future from those who take their wealth, premade, from the ground, to those who make their wealth through hard work, skill, and creativity (and thus must build free societies that maximize the human potential of every citizen)."
5-Page 34:"In point of fact, the Saudi ruling family has direct responsibility for promoting terrorism against the United States and many other nations."
6-Page 47:"The Taliban movement was a Saudi project."
7-Page 65:"The most egregious piece of pro-Sudi fecklessness of the American political class, however, has been its failure to enact a competent energy policy to stop the Arabian looting of our nation."
8-Page 188:"A thousand years ago, oat and barley were grown in Iceland."
9-Page 194:"Studies done at Oak Ridge National Lab on forest trees have shown that increasing the carbon dixide level 50 percent higher, to the 550 ppm level projected to prevail at the end of the twenty-first century will likely increase photosynthetic productivity a further 24 percent."
10-Page 246:"The issue at stake in energy security is not a matter of whether the price of gasoline will be $2 per gallon or $3 per gallon; it is who will determine the human future."
11-Page 254:"For Christians, human are children of God. for Islamits, as for the Marduk-Baal cult, they are slaves of God. As such, they are also slaves of the master that Allah has chosen to place above them. This view makes democracy and human rights impossible. It also makes social progress impossible, because it denies the legitimacy of any reasoned critique of traditional arragements. It also makes peaceful coexistence with free non-Muslins impossible, because it denies their right to exist."
12-Page 269:"However, according to the Merril Lynch data, the price of oil would be about 15 higher were it not for biofuels, which comes to a savings of about $18 per barrel at current oil prices."
This book was writen by a NASA's aerospace engineer. He did a very good work, but as an agronomist, I must tell somemistakes of this book:
1-On page 25, the tells that USA has the biggest potential for ethanol and methanol. In fact, Brazil has more than the doble of the American potential for ethanol and methanol.
2-On page 98, the author tells that cellulose has the formula C4H6O3. In fact, the cellulose's formula is C6H12O6.
3-On page 53, the author tells that water hyacinth would be a good source for methanol. Nonsense. Water hyacinth is about 95% water and is a good source of biogas, not ethanol.
4-On page 162, the author tells that Brazil since XVII is the world's leader in sugarcane production. In fact, in 1955, Cuba was producing more sugarcane than Brazil and also India was ahead of Brazil in sugarcane production. Since 1970 decade Brazilian production of sugarcane is bigger than Cuban and Indian production combined, but this is about 30 years old, not since XVII Century.
5-On page 205, the author gives an absurd and low number for the deaths in Chernobyl disaster.
Even with these mistakes above, I must give 5 stars for this book, because it is the best book I ever read about American energy future. If I gave four stars for the book "The End of Oil" by Paul Roberts, I have to be just and give five stars for this book. | | | | Energy Victory: Winning the War on Terror by Breaking Free of Oil Sep 10, 2009 |
| Everyone should read this book. The United States is indeed engaged in an international war with millions of radical Islamic jihadists who want to kill everyone who doesn't either a)think the way they do or b) submit to their authority. This may be the most unique war in history, however, because the United States is funding both sides. Low-cost biofuels are within our reach in the near term. Everything is in place to make this happen except the political will. "We have met the enemy, and it is us." | | | | Required Reading for All Americans Dec 28, 2008 |
I'm a big fan of Zubrin for his non-fiction work. It's technically astute, accurate in its use of facts and figures and blends well with his dry sense of humor. All in all a good read.
As for the subject matter and the message, this book should be read by all Americans and should be the basis of an energy policy for the incoming administration. Alas, they are likely as much in the pocket of Big Oil and OPEC as the outgoing administration. Money talks... | | | Write your own review about Energy Victory: Winning the War on Terror by Breaking Free of Oil
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