Kentucky is battered! - Alternatives we need YOU!
So I flipped on CNN this morning early as I usually do and was shocked that I hadn’t heard about the ice storm back there. Apparently Kentucky and Arkansas are badly hit by a winter storm that has left droves of power outages in its wake. Here is an article for you if your still behind the times (as I was as of this morning). Below is an excerpt from the article:
Many Kentucky hotels offering discounted “power outage rates” reported being fully booked with people escaping frosty neighborhoods. Those who hunkered down in their homes face long lines to buy generators, firewood, groceries — even bottled water because power outages crippled local pumping stations.
Truckloads of ready-to-eat meals, water and generators from the Federal Emergency Management Agency were expected to arrive Friday at a staging area in Fort Campbell, Ky., said Mary Hudak, a spokeswoman for FEMA’s southeast region.
In Paducah, Amber Fiers and her neighbor Miranda Brittan tried a half-dozen filling stations before finding one where they could buy kerosene. The two were in a line that swelled to 50 or more at the 13th Street Station, which began pumping kerosene after its owner set up a generator.
So here’s my thing - this guy gets on the TV and goes “WE NEED FUEL - WE NEED GAS!!!”
In the background is footage of lines of cars wrapping around the block and hillbillys screaming “we’ve been here for like two hours!”
When will this society realize that its reliance on fossil fuels is completely unsustainable. Its like building a massive structure and leaning it on an earthquake fault.
I mean you have to be kidding me - people are freezing over there and starving because we can’t and haven’t come up with smarter - and yes I do mean smarter - ways of producing energy.
And to boot even if we did have a completely open grid with solar power plants everywhere and electricity powering our every move, we still have the issues of transmission lines.
My advice to you is get off the grid or stock up on coal, oil and kerosene - in the meantime, have fun with the price fluctuations, embargoes, middle eastern conflicts, and land pillage. We need a better solution and I’m glad that Obama is considering rerouting NASA to focus on climate change - who the hell wants to live on Mars anyway.