The Flex Fuel Imperative

FACT NUMBER ONE: The economy runs on oil. Transportation requires oil. Fact number two: 78 percent of the oil comes from OPEC, a coalition of thirteen countries. Fact number three: When we use less oil, they pump less oil, keeping the price the same. When we drill more oil of our own, they pump less oil, keeping the price the same. In other words, as long as we are dependent on oil alone for transportation, we cannot impact the price of oil on the world market.

I think America should try to drill for its own oil. But even if the U.S. pumped all of its own oil, what would oil companies do when the price of oil on the American market was lower than the price those oil companies could get for their oil on the world market?

However you look at it, the quickest solution — a solution that could be added to any other solution — is to introduce competition into the fuel market so oil is no longer the only fuel cars can burn. The simplest, most inexpensive solution is to pass a law making it mandatory that every car sold in the U.S. must be a "flex fuel" car. This is also called "an open fuel standard." All cars would be manufactured already capable of burning multiple fuels (including gasoline).

To make a car a flex fuel car adds about 100 U.S. dollars to the cost of a new car, which is chump change in the big scheme of things. Some U.S. car manufacturers already make flex fuel cars — and most of them are shipped to Brazil!

If most cars on the road were flex fuel cars, it would create enough financial incentive for businesses to justify new fuel pumps at "gas stations," to produce new, competing fuels, and to invest in the development of competing fuels. Right now so few cars are flex fuel cars, the market is not big enough for a business to expend resources to get in the business of providing the fuel or developing fuels.

Brazil went from zero to 70 percent of their cars being flex fuel cars in three years. Last year, 90 percent of new cars sold in Brazil were flex fuel cars. When oil prices went up recently on the world market, alternative fuels sold better in Brazil. They used more ethanol than gasoline last year. Because they had a choice.

In an upcoming Citizen Warrior article, we will have something specific you can do to help make this law a reality. But first, please learn more about this important issue. Oil money is reaching its hand into every aspect of life, strongly influencing the Islamization of Western democracies, including the building of mosques (and mega-mosques). We must cut off their money supply. The first step is to learn more about the flex fuel imperative. Start here:

Watch an 85 minute talk by Anne Korin and Gal Luft: Turning Oil Into Salt: Energy Independence Through Fuel Choice.

Read a Wall Street Journal article, How to End America's Addiction to Oil (PDF)

Read an article from The American Interest: Fueled Again? (PDF)

Read the book: Turning Oil Into Salt.



Watch a movie entitled Turning Oil Into Salt on YouTube.
Read an article on Citizen Warrior: Support An Open Fuel Standard
Check out an organization working for flex fuel legislation: Set America Free

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How to Boost the Economy of the Free World While Cutting Off Funds to Orthodox Muslim Countries

IN 2008, just as the world economy was crashing, OPEC decided to reduce the amount of oil they produced in order to keep oil prices high. The free world's economy relies on transportation. And transportation relies on oil.

OPEC is an organization of oil producing countries, most of which are Muslim countries. The two most notable members of OPEC are Saudi Arabia and Iran. OPEC controls enough of the world's oil supply to be able to adjust the oil prices on the world market. If another country starts producing more oil (putting more oil on the market, which would normally reduce the price of oil), OPEC reduces their output, preventing world oil prices from dropping. They try to keep the price as high as possible while undercutting any competing fuels.

In other words, OPEC has a large influence on the world economy. And they do not have non-Muslims' best interests in mind. While the rest of the world crashed economically, OPEC countries reaped a windfall.

One of the things they're doing with all the money is building mosques and madrases around the world, and controlling what message is delivered in those institutions, making sure it is orthodox, fundamental, intolerant, supremacist Islam.

In one smooth move, we can change all this.

All we have to do is make it mandatory that all cars sold in the United States are flex fuel vehicles, which means making it mandatory to install two things: 1) a new fuel sensor and 2) corrosion-resistant fuel lines that can handle different kinds of fuel besides gasoline (but including gasoline). This small tweak costs very little. Car manufacturers in the U.S. already do it for cars sold in Brazil (90% of cars sold in Brazil are flex fuel vehicles).

With this simple policy, a whole new world opens up for us. Why? Because it allows competition. Right now oil has a monopoly on transportation. It is the only viable fuel we can use in our vehicles (97 percent of the fuel used in U.S. transportation is petroleum-based).

Introduce competition to the liquid fuel market and one of two things will happen, both of them good. As companies produce new kinds of fuel and sell them cheaper than oil, OPEC will have a choice to either drop their prices to compete, or lose the sale.

Either way, we win and they lose.

Two organizations are intent on pushing through legislation in the United States to mandate flex fuel cars: NozzleRage and Set America Free. Please support them, use their resources to pressure your representatives, and tell your friends about them.

I'm from the U.S., so these organizations are for the U.S. Please send us the websites of organizations in your country. Either put them in comments or email them to us and we'll put them in comments for you. Let's get this simple fix started right away. Let's choke off the money flowing to Islamic countries. Let's stop the proliferation of madrases and mosques around the world. Let's shut them down and boost our economy at the same time. Are you with me? Let's do this.

Read more about this important imperative: How to Break Both Oil’s Monopoly and OPEC’s Cartel (PDF document) by R. James Woolsey and Anne Korin.

Here's a couple of excerpts from the article:

The unique strategic importance of oil to the modern economy stems from the fact that oil has a virtual monopoly in the global economy’s very enabler — the transportation sector (contrary to popular belief, at present only 2 percent of U.S. electricity is generated from oil, and conversely only about 2 percent of U.S. oil demand is due to electricity generation.) A century of a transportation sector dominated by petroleum — almost all of the world’s cars, trucks, ships and planes can run on nothing but petroleum products — has led to an acceptance of this domination as the natural order and oil’s status as a strategic commodity as a fait accompli. As a result, instead of viewing oil’s strategic value as a problem that needs to be addressed, when it comes to energy the focus has been, from a foreign policy perspective — as articulated by the Carter Doctrine — on ensuring uninterrupted access to oil including by military force if necessary. From a domestic policy perspective, we have concentrated on policies that increase either the availability of petroleum or the efficiency of its use.

Another excerpt:

For a cost of less than $100 extra as compared to a gasoline-only vehicle, automakers can make virtually any car a flex fuel vehicle, capable of running on any combination of gasoline and a variety of alcohols such as ethanol and methanol, and in the future butanol, made from a variety of feedstocks. These can include agricultural residues and grasses, animal and municipal waste, and even carbon dioxide (as Japan’s Mitsui Chemicals plans to do) — elegant possibilities for using reform of transportation to deal with greenhouse gas emissions. There are many possibilities in the works — indeed, alcohol does not just mean ethanol, and ethanol does not just mean corn.

At present, the U.S. domestic alternative fuel industry faces a blend barrier — non flexible cars can only handle up to 10% alcohol fuel, a capacity the domestic industry has already achieved. An open fuel standard requiring new cars to be flex fuel vehicles, which can handle up to 85% alcohol, will eliminate this blend barrier and, beyond encouraging the domestic industry to expand, make it politically realistic to open developed world transportation fuel markets to alternative fuels imported from developing countries.

I urge you to read the article and share it with everyone you know: How to Break Both Oil’s Monopoly and OPEC’s Cartel.

For more information about the flex fuel imperative, read the Myths and Facts about OPEC and Flex Fuel Vehicles.

Something else you can do: Email Nozzle Rage: Lovers Lane to your friends or post it on Facebook. Or this video: Nozzle Rage: Attack of the Pump.

Let's make this legislation a reality now. It's practical, it's simple, it uses already-existing technology, and it will strike a decisive blow to the third jihad.

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Cut Off The Jihad Money Supply

POSTED APRIL, 2009: U.S. CITIZENS: A new bill has been introduced which has the potential to strike a decisive blow to the worldwide jihad. "This bill is in the first step in the legislative process," says GovTrack. "Introduced bills and resolutions first go to committees that deliberate, investigate, and revise them before they go to general debate. The majority of bills and resolutions never make it out of committee."

The new bill is called "H.R. 1476." It is also called the "Open Fuel Standard Act of 2009." Why is this bill so important? Because it can introduce competition into the fuels market. Right now oil has a monopoly. Read more about why a new flex fuel law is so important.

"Powerful people on both ends of the political spectrum – from President Obama to former House Speaker Newt Gingrich – have called for implementation of flex fuel technology," says Lisa Piraneo, Director of Government Relations for ACT! for America. "Flex fuel vehicles already exist and they only cost about $100 more than the same car in a gasoline-only version. It is a simple and inexpensive modification that should be standard in cars, like seatbelts or airbags.

"This important legislative proposal is plain common sense, good for our economy, and good for our national security as it is a huge step in the direction of reducing our dependence on oil from nations that wish us harm." The following are AFA's recommended actions you can take to help make this bill a new law:

1. Please contact your Representative (in the U.S. House of Representatives) TODAY, via letter, e-mail or phone call, and ask him/her to sign on to H.R. 1476 as a COSPONSOR. If you learn that your Member of Congress is already a cosponsor – BE SURE TO SAY THANK YOU! Click here for contact information for your Representative.
   
   
2. If your Member of Congress serves on the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, please also request that H.R. 1476 be attached to the Waxman-Markey American Clean Energy Security Act, a larger energy bill that is scheduled to be voted on by the Committee in the immediate future. (For list of committee members, see below).

DETAILS OF LEGISLATION

Bill number:	H.R. 1476
Bill name:	Open Fuel Standard Act of 2009
Date introduced:	March 12, 2009
Sponsor:	Representative Eliot Engel (D-17th/NY)
Current Cosponsors:	Representatives: Allyson Schwartz (D-PA); Bruce Braley (D-IA); Roscoe Bartlett (R-MD); Steve Israel (D-NY); John Barrow (D-GA); Bob Inglis (R-SC)
Committee of Jurisdiction:	House Committee on Energy and Commerce
Summary of Proposal:	Requires that auto manufacturers ensure that not less than 80 percent of automobiles manufactured or sold in the U.S. (by each manufacturer) operate on fuel mixtures containing 85 percent ethanol, 85 percent methanol, or biodiesel.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR HELP WITH THIS
IMPORTANT LEGISLATIVE PROPOSAL.

Members of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce

Members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee

Democrats (36) Henry A. Waxman, 30th-CA (Chair) John D. Dingell, 15th-MI Edward J. Markey, 7th-MA Rick Boucher – 9th-VA Frank Pallone, Jr. – 6th-NJ Bart Gordon, 6th-TN Bobby L. Rush, 1st-IL Anna G. Eshoo, 14th-CA Bart Stupak, 1st-MI Eliot Engel, 17th-NY Gene Green, 29th-TX Diana DeGette, 1st-CO Lois Capps, 23rd-CA Mike Doyle, 14th-PA Jane Harman, 36th-CA Janice D. Schakowsky, 9th-IL Charles A. Gonzalez, 20th-TX Jay Inslee, 1st-WA Tammy Baldwin, 2nd-WI Mike Ross, 4th-AR Anthony Weiner, 9th-NY Jim Matheson, 2nd-UT G.K. Butterfield, 1st-NC Charlie Melancon, 3rd-LA John Barrow, 12th-GA Baron Hill, 9th-IN Doris O. Matsui, 5th-CA Donna M. Christensen, VI Kathy Castor, 11th-FL John P. Sarbanes, 3rd-MD Christopher S. Murphy, 5th-CT Zack Space, 18th-OH Jerry McNerney, 11th-CA Betty Sutton, 13th-OH Bruce L. Braley, 1st-IA Peter Welch, At Large-VT

Republicans (23) Joe Barton, 6th-TX, Rnk. Mem. Ralph M. Hall, 4th-TX Fred Upton, 6th-MI Cliff Stearns, 6th-FL Nathan Deal, 9th-GA Ed Whitfield, 1st-KY John Shimkus, 19th-IL John B. Shadegg, 3rd-AZ Roy Blunt, 7th-MO Steve Buyer, 4th-IN George Radanovich, 19th-CA Joseph R. Pitts, 16th-PA Mary Bono Mack, 45th-CA Greg Walden, 2nd-OR Lee Terry, 2nd-NE Michael J. Rogers, 8th-MI Sue Myrick, 9th-NC John Sullivan, 1st-OK Tim Murphy, 18th-PA Michael C. Burgess, 26th-TX Marsha Blackburn, 7th-TN Phil Gingrey, 11th-GA Steve Scalise, 1st-LA

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How a bill becomes a law:

1. First the bill is introduced. This one was introduced Mar 12, 2009.

2. The bill is then referred to a committee. That is where HR 1476 is right now.

3. Then the committee gives their report to the House and Senate. This has not happened yet. HR 1476 is still in committee.

4. Then the bill is voted on in House and Senate.

5. Then the bill is signed into law by the President.

Let's get this bill to the final stage. Tell everyone you know, and urge them to take the two actions above. Don't let up until it has become law.

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Strike the Heart of Jihad

ISLAMIC supremacists are building mosques and madrassas all over the world, they're buying up companies and properties in the West, and they are exerting more and more influence on the media and on the banking industry.

They are able to do all this because we pay them billions of dollars every year for oil. If we could suddenly become independent of Islamic oil, their reach and influence would drop like a stone.

The heart of jihad has always been money. The jizya, or tax on non-Muslims, has fueled the expansion of Islamic domination since its inception. But most non-Muslims within Islam-dominated countries have either been killed, fled the country, or converted, so that huge source of money has dried up, slowing down Islam's expansion.

That is, until the invention of the automobile. Now Islamic supremacists have a vast new source of income from non-Muslims: Oil money. And Islam is once again expanding.

While the long-term solutions may take awhile, each of us can do a couple of things to help cut off the financial source of influence for Jihadis, and we can start today:

1. Actively support an open fuel standard. This is a relatively inexpensive addition to the car-manufacturing process that allows cars to burn two other fuels besides gasoline. This would allow the different kinds of fuel to compete with each other, and if all cars in the U.S. had this feature, it is likely that there would already be cheaper fuels than gasoline. Islamic oil producers would be deprived of billions of dollars.

All that needs to happen is for the government to make it mandatory that all new cars have this feature. This will allow companies to confidently build new fuel stations because they are guaranteed of a market. The whole thing could happen very quickly. Find out how to help make an open fuel standard the law, and why it should be done.

2. Convince everyone you know to do these too. Actively promote the idea. Get your friends and family to watch the video of Anne Korin. Send people a link to NozzleRage (their videos are worth sharing). Let's make the open fuel standard mandatory immediately. Let's cut off their money. Sooner is better than later.

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Support an Open Fuel Standard

"THIS YEAR, the United States and other countries will send OPEC countries more money than the United States taxpayers send our own Department of Defense," says Anne Korin in the video below.

This can change. It costs very little for car manufacturers to tweak their engines so they can burn several different kinds of fuels — in other words, to create a single engine that can burn ethanol and methanol and gasoline, whichever is available or cheapest. Car manufacturers already make some of their cars with this tweak. If car manufacturers were required to do this by the government (just as they are required to build in seat belts), fuel companies would have enough confidence to build fueling stations for alternative fuels, and then what would happen? The different kinds of fuels could compete.

Right now oil is a fuel monopoly. It is the only fuel most cars use. This monopoly is controlled by OPEC. They don't produce all the oil on the market, but they produce such a large amount that they can change the global price of oil when they wish. This means the global price of oil is controlled by Jihadis, and they are using their oil monopoly to do two things at once: To fund a global jihad, and to weaken the free world.

The idea of "drill here, drill now" will help remove money from OPEC and put it into the U.S. market, which is a good thing, but it still leaves OPEC controlling oil prices, which means Jihadis are controlling the price of transportation, which means Jihadis are controlling the global economy. "Drill here, drill now" is a good thing to do, but it is not the whole solution. Whenever more oil is added to the global market, OPEC reduces its output accordingly. Their control of their output controls the price. It is oil jihad. We need to defeat it with freedom. In this case, a free market competition between transportation fuels.

In the U.S., we only use 2% of our oil creating electricity. Building more nuclear power plants or wind turbines won't help much with the transportation issue until more cars and trucks are electric. But making more fuel options possible (by mandating the open fuel standard) will strongly impact the transportation issue quickly, giving us freedom from the monopoly, and freedom from control by OPEC, while cutting off a significant flow of money to people committed to sabotaging Western democracies.

Watch Anne Korin speak about the problem and the solution in the video below. Korin is the director of policy and strategic planning at Institute for the Analysis of Global Security and the editor of Energy Security:



The simplest, cheapest, quickest way to eliminate OPEC's control on the world economy is making it a law that cars must be made with an open fuel standard. Do you want to cut off money going to Jihadis bent on the West's destruction? Write to your representatives now.

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