I have been out of touch with my own blog for far too long. Sorry folks, a crush of work and other un-pleasantries has caused me to go into a writing drought combined with writer’s block. With so much bad news and an election down in Dixie/Yankee land that in my mind is the most important election in many moons yet is being run like a bad reality show, I just couldn’t put finger to keyboard.
Well here’s a bit of good news that woke me up finally. Iceland is putting up “Cheap and Green Energy to be sold along the Ring Road” Now you can take your alternative energy vehicle out of the capital area and not worry about a source of fuel. One of the biggest points of all this is what I’ve been saying for a long time, government fleets should be taking the lead and running their own vehicles on clean energy. Vehicle fleets such as the government are much easier to control than the wider consumer market. And it doesn’t have to be as expensive as the propaganda states. In the long run we’ll save a fortune and possibly our own future. At least someone out there is giving green a chance.
Running garbage trucks on methane gathered from the local refuse dump is not a new idea in Iceland but it has developed far enough to supply the surplus to passenger vehicles and taxi fleets. Hydrogen production is coming along very nicely in Iceland, you can even take a sight seeing cruise on a hydrogen powered ship.
The yang to the yin is that these green fueling station are being run by the oil companies. Having N1 a.k.a Esso a.k.a Exxon a.k.a the devil himself do this is like contracting the fox to design a better hen cage. But they have the goods to do it so for the time being and because the private sector will never get a foothold until big oil and governments finally stop talking and start doing it. So bravo Iceland, the days of foreign oil dependence are numbered and you will show us gluttons how it might be done.
Tags: Clean Energy, Iceland
July 8th, 2008 at 9:59 am
Bravo Iceland! We’ll never get widely available alternative energy until fleets and in particular government fleets take a lead. What if they simply ran those thousands of postal delivery trucks on green? Busses, garbage trucks, so many things are powered by fossil fuels and are much easier to covert than Joe Sixpack’s SUV.
Oh but it will cost money? Yeah, so what? It costs money now and is starting to cost us a fortune not to mention the long term costs. Start now and let’s get a move on. My kids will thank you.