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The San Francisco Peak Oil Resolution
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Posted by Films For Action on Jan. 26, 2008
28 min - Peak Moment TV - 1309 Views
San Francisco is the first American city to formally address the challenges of oil depletion. Dennis Brumm and Alyse Heartwell recount how members of SF Oil Awareness envisioned, wrote and presented to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors a Peak Oil resolution, which they passed unanimously in April 2006. They explore next steps: public hearings and plans to create a task force to assess the city's energy vulnerability.
Subjects: government, peak oil, cities
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Uncle B - March 2, 2009 - archived
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There is another "Peak" we are suffering This is the point where the big money of the world had transitioned from the American Worker, as an expensive and unreliable resource, to the 85 cent an hour Chinese peasant woman, a self-regenerating and unending , cheap and reliable source of labor - This change coming at the same time as peak oil and has significance. Is nuclear energy the next great folly for the Americans? Will they discount the truly renewable, or perpetual if you will, Solar, Wind, Wave, Tidal, Hydro, and Geothermal Energy sources for the final poison of nuclear wastes and a position one engineering mistake from oblivion, and good for only the next twenty years, in their short term desperation? Can America become a responsible citizen in the world and control breeding at home? The Chinese have strict, enforced "Breeding" rules but Americans breed indiscriminately and sometimes for entertainment! Too much stimulation from Hollywood? Too much hormones in the meat supply? a sick, degenerate faction of the general population? lack of laws and enforcement of existing laws? Religious notions destroying the nation? Why do we have enough nuclear warheads to destroy the world 20 times over, and not enough Solar, Wind, Wave,Tidal, Hydro and Geothermal power to survive an oil shortage unscathed? Are we that afraid of our neighbors? Are they really all that bad? Somehow I rather think we have been Shystered and Shylocked into this B.S. To make money for large corporations who lobby the government and have been able to buy what they want over the power of our votes! Can GMO's help the starving urban masses in this (GRD) great republican depression, or will we have Anarchy in the city streets when the "shit hits the fan" and the food supply breaks down due to lack of oil? Can Obama survive the catastrophic mess Bush has left him, or will he run, holding his temples and screaming gibberish by the end of his first term?
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