FedEx CEO Calls For End To Oil

http://thinkprogress.org/2011/02/03/fred-smith-end-oil/

FedEx CEO Calls For End To Oil

In his State of the Union address, President Barack Obama called for the nation to rapidly deploy electric cars and trucks to get the United States off oil dependence. The president has now been joined by one of America’s top Republican businessmen, FedEx CEO Frederick W. Smith. In a Fortune column, Smith described how the “670 aircraft and 70,000 motorized vehicles” of his company deliver 7 million packages a day — “nearly every single one of which is fueled by oil.” This dependence “comes at a significant cost,” Smith said, putting the U.S. military at risk and “requiring us to accommodate governments that share neither our values nor our goals.” Oil spikes bring about recessions, and “petroleum was responsible for 43% of U.S. energy-related CO2 emissions in 2009,” Smith, a huge financial supporter of George W. Bush and Sen. John McCain, explained. However, Smith agreed with the president that America can power away from petroleum:

We cannot continue down this path. There is, however, a solution that may become economically attractive sooner than most think: cars and trucks powered by electricity. Electricity is generated by a diverse, domestic, stable, fundamentally scalable portfolio of fuels that is almost entirely free of oil.

A member of the Electrification Coalition, Smith called on Congress to enact the bipartisan Electric Vehicle Deployment Act which stalled last year in the Senate. “I am not someone who tends to advocate increased government involvement in the private sector,” Smith concluded. “But there is no free market for oil. This is not a market issue — it is a national security issue.”

Got to see that.

Electric Jet Planes With Superconducting Generators
http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=2712

http://nextbigfuture.com/2009/12/superconductors-could-enable-electric.html

Although it can have a benefit of raising prices to get people off of oil, almosty nobody figured that out in the 1970s because so many people were making money off of oil.

We could all be driving the 2000 'flying' cars of cheap distributed energy right now, if people would have listened to what was obvious back then.


Side note back then I didn't push much for that, I thought the leaders in many sectors were actually taking care of things for most people, my bad there.


The amount of 'electricity' needed to run cars and trains and the ability to produce that with wind, solar, and other inventions, is an interesting question.

But if windmills can create fuel for hydrogen fuel cells or similar tech, then anyone that buys a windmill could open a gas station. It has the added benefit of diversifying energy control.

and not cut and cut and cut like we have been doing the past few years.

So thanks buddy!

and our dependency on oil has only gotten worse. In fact, there's been less and less mass transit projects since the 1970s.

http://www.jetsongreen.com/ I first saw them here.