Let me ask you what will you do when crude oil hits $200 a barrel on the world market and gasoline goes to $8 a gallon?

It's coming I CAN GUARANTEE THAT IT WILL HAPPEN. Think about that while I explain something of how I came to the conclusions that resulted in my book and my commitment to a mission.

That mission? It is to write and speak about practical ways to save us the US and the world from the ravages of the petroleum dragon. This lecture is a part of that mission. It is one method I can use to try to make everyone aware of available options for safe, affordable energy generation that will address four of the seven of the top twenty-two most vital concerns of Americans as determined in a survey conducted by MIT Laboratory for Energy and the Environment last year. Those are listed below along with the results of adopting the proposed systems, or any other system that replaced the use of fossil fuels:

Nbr 1 Terrorism!
These solutions would cut off the billions in oil money now going to so many despotic regimes and into funding of terrorism, chiefly to Islamic fundamentalist terrorists.

Nbr 3 The Economy
An American fuel industry would be an enormous boon to our economy if it only shut off the current tremendous hemorrhaging of oil money

Nbr 4 Unemployment
Thousands of new, high paying jobs would be created right here.

Nbr 7 Federal Budget deficits
Profits from this new industry would pour billions into the federal treasury - money now going out overseas

Nbr 13 The Environment
The environment including global warming may be far down the list of public concerns, but net carbon dioxide emissions would be greatly reduced if not eliminated by these systems.

The options I describe in the book and explain in the lecture are real and practical alternatives to fossil fuels. If adopted, these systems will:

1) Replace the use of petroleum and coal-based fuels with renewable, non polluting fuels.

2) Build an American energy system that will stop the hemorrhaging of billions of US dollars, mostly to despotic nations that preach our destruction.

3) Build an American energy industry that boosts our economy and provides good jobs for many Americans.

4) Stop the growth of atmospheric carbon dioxide and that possible link to global warming.

5) Accomplish most of this within just the next ten years.

I am describing and proposing an effective new fuel/energy system to replace the existing petroleum-based system with one that does not use fossil fuels. There are tremendously important benefits in such a system, benefits which are many, varied and have far reaching positive attributes. These include immeasurable economic and political benefits for the citizens of any state or country that adopts such a system and environmental benefits for the entire world.

There are powerful and deeply entrenched economic and political forces all over the world that would oppose such a system as it would challenge their power and control over energy. I trust our nation will overcome this opposition and lead the world by becoming the first to adopt such a system

My interest in fuels and energy was first piqued in 1954 when I was part of a group of engineers involved in attaining Professional Engineering status. Our group was asked to research the petroleum industry and report our predictions about the future of petroleum. We did considerable literature searching and other research and wrote a detailed report including predictions for the next fifty years. Our results and predictions were surprisingly close to what happened.

It was more than forty years later, 1998, when I once again delved into the petroleum industry in search of a practical alternative to the present system. I soon became aware of the work being done on the hydrogen fuel-cell vehicle and started pursuing information about this new idea.

It wasn't long before my research showed that such an undertaking had many obstacles to overcome before it could become a practical reality. As I studied and recognized what had to be done, particularly the required infrastructure that would be totally new and very expensive, I began to look for simpler, less exotic alternatives. I believe the system I put together and have outlined in my book to be far better than any of the existing or proposed fossil fuel-based system or the proposed hydrogen fuel-cell system in virtually every aspect.

It was Peter Abelard who said, "By doubting, we are led to inquire. By inquiring, we perceive the truth."

I doubted! I inquired! I perceived! And now I'm sharing what I learned.

First of all, I set down the requirements of a new energy system.

* It must be relatively inexpensive to utilize

* It must be far easier, simpler and less expensive to implement than the hydrogen fuel-cell system

* It must be adaptable to our existing infrastructure with minor changes

* It must use raw materials we already have or that can be developed here, locally.

* It must be applicable to existing vehicles with relatively minor upgrading.

* It must be useable with existing internal combustion engines of all types with minor upgrading.

* It should be developed using existing, evolving technology and able to be essentially complete within ten years.

* It must create a system that is a net zero contributor of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere.

* It must be an evolutionary as opposed to revolutionary change a good start to becoming

* a constantly improving, adapting system driving a growing and improving technology.

* It should be an America-based industry with many substantial benefits, social, political and economic to our nation.

While the main thrust of such a system is to provide a new, better, less expensive and less environmentally intrusive system for energy and transportation, there are many benefits other than just getting away from fossil fuels.

Even with these substantial benefits bundled into a grand plan there are significant forces to be dealt with. Forces that can make a new idea work or relegate it to the ashcan of history. There are real difficulties and obstacles that must be dealt with and overcome in order for any new system to become a reality no matter how positive and/or effective that system might be. Indeed, the battle to get it noticed and make it a reality what I am dong right this moment may require more effort than implementation of the idea or system itself. The process, once begun, may take completely unexpected twists and turns in moving, sometimes forward and sometimes back, but always in the ultimate direction of successful implementation.

Our space program and its "Put a Man on the Moon in Ten Years" commitment followed just such a wandering path en route to its success. We can expect no less from our efforts to find a new fuel/energy system which certainly has a more powerful practical and obviously profitable goal. Clearly, President Kennedy's commitment to put a man on the moon in ten years and the follow up on that commitment was a major force in making it happen.

What we need now is leadership that is courageous enough to boldly state a goal such as, "Eliminate the use of Fossil Fuels in Ten Years" and then set up the means and work ceaselessly toward achieving that goal.

The challenge we now face could be an even greater challenge than putting a man on the moon, a serious challenge that could be instrumental in securing our very survival. That challenge is the many serious problems we face including: our growing dependence on foreign oil, the financing of global terrorism with money paid for petroleum, and the worldwide environmental effects of the continued use of fossil fuels, a possible cause of global warming and a steadily diminishing resource. We need this ten-year goal declaration to be well stated and from a leader with vision and the dedication to follow through. The commitment would be to develop a new energy system that provides American made renewable fuels and adds no more carbon dioxide to the atmosphere within the next ten years.

Most of the rest of the lecture is specific information about the proposed new fuels, power sources, power systems and vehicles and is taken from the research for my book, A CONVENIENT SOLUTION.

If you would like to find out more about my lecture and how your group could arrange to hear it, contact me at hobarb@yahoo.com. I would really appreciate it if you would help me spread this important message to everyone.

One of my favorite quotes came from Angela Monet who said, "Those who dance are thought insane by those who cannot hear the music." I only hope you can hear and appreciate my music in this lecture and book and will help me to spread it to many others.

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