After Gutenberg

“The current energy industry has quite masterfully succeeded in lulling many Americans to sleep on the dangers of the poisons they sell, while portraying renewables as a distant dream.” S. David Freeman

Cal Cars Nooz has an announcment of a new book by S. David Freeman on winning our energy independence by using renewable resources. Freeman is an energy insider and guru, known as the “Green Cowboy”. He wants the American people to know the truth about our dependence on foreign oil, dirty coal and dangerous nuclear power — what he calls the “Three Poisons.”

We need to wean ourselves from oil, coal and nuclear to have… well, to have a future. Freeman says that with existing technologies we can meet the nation’s electrical needs. Renewable energy resources, i.e., solar, wind and biomass energy — harnessed on a mass scale — can heat and cool our homes, run our cars, power our factories, and do all the things that our civilization requires. He calls for a concerted 30-year effort to close aging coal-fired and nuclear power plants.

We make use of renewable energy sources as little as we do, in part, because of a slick campaign waged by oil companies and electrical utilities to deceive Americans:

“The folks who sell oil, coal, and nuclear reactors spend tremendous amounts of money convincing the American people that what they sell is economical, safe, and clean. They contribute huge sums of money to the politicians who repeat their propaganda. How often have you heard phrases such as ‘clean coal,’ ‘safe nuclear power,’ ‘clean diesel,’ or ‘low-level radioactive waste’?

“These phrases are images invented by highly paid, highly skilled advertising firms. But, these claims are lies.