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The cost of energy
All forms of energy, from sunlight to oil, are gifts of nature
to Man and
when he finds himself paying through the nose for such priceless
gifts, Man
knows that some of his kind have gone crazy.
It might appear to be rational to discourage ourselves from wasting
nature's
gifts by taxing ourselves for using them, but better by far to discover
why
we get so stupid as to waste what we hold so dear.
For example turning life into a rat race is an advanced form of
insanity.
Life is for living. A rat race is for killing. We are told by the
so called
'experts' that the source of all our troubles is greed. But of course
it is
always the other chap's greed and not our greed.
For most of us, life in the concrete jungle is a fierce struggle
to survive.
The cave men were much better off, living the simple life with no
problem
with their fuel supplies. The fundamental difference between ourselves
and
the primitives, is that we are educated in such a manner as to lower
our
IQ.
We have lost the ability to use our wits with wisdom. If only we
could see
quite clearly, that placing a money maker between ourselves and
nature's
bounty, is the cause of our grief with energy, we should instantly
become
less crazy.
Money is man made stuff, it does not grow on trees or anywhere
else. Money
is man made, manufactured, created, brought into existence by man,
by us.
And what do we do, we fail miserably with that task. We just don't
do it or
allow anyone else to do it, by honest means. We borrow money into
existence.
Now if that is not crazy, what is it!
How do you borrow something, which does not exist? It cannot be
done, but we
do it all the time and do not bother to see that we do. We accept
credit as
a loan of money and that creates new money out of nothing, new money
on
which we pay interest, until we redeem the loan with new money,
which we
must earn.
We human beings recently swung in from the trees or out of the
caves,
enslave ourselves with debt and tax ourselves to stop ourselves
from using
too much energy too fast.
Re-read this short briefing on the cost of fuel, over and over
again, until
the penny drops.
Doctor Edward C Hamlyn MBChB
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