Here is the Grand Plan!
Do you know what the next big boom is going to be? Hydrogen!

First of all, we need to change our way of thinking … we need to know and believe that saving the environment is the key to helping future generations have the economic development necessary to “get ahead in a healthy economy.” It is a virtue -- like eating fruits and vegetables to ward off cancer. Americans want to be optimistic as we proceed into the future. We must adopt policies that allow us to be healthy and productive.

But it is futile to allow our economy to remain dependent upon diminishing fossil and radioactive fuels. Continued dependence upon fossil and radioactive fuels will require higher taxes and more federal debt to pay the costs including subsidies that these fuels receive. Even so energy, healthcare, education, and food costs are rising, and we are left with less power to “get ahead” by investing for “progress.”

My Dad keeps reminding me that I and every other person on Earth has a mission and that Civilization must have a Grand Plan to unite us in a cause to achieve Sustainable Prosperity. He has a plan for every community of the world to achieve sustainable prosperity. According to him, every person on Earth has a job to accomplish sustainable prosperity and to do less is a form of self-destruction.

The one thing that is a common denominator to all aspects of life on Earth particularly including our economy is energy. It is imperative that far larger, more distributed, and sustainable supplies of solar, wind, wave, falling water, geothermal, and biomass resources replace present dependency on diminishing supplies of fossil resources.

Shifting to full employment to overcome our dependence upon fossil and radioactive fuels can actually produce anti-inflationary benefits. It will allow us to overcome our guilt for literally robbing fossil resources and polluting the Earth.

Not to get off course, but going to war with Iraq, has caused great damage to our economy and our self-esteem. The US didn’t want to increase taxes to fight that war … so we borrowed that money. As Alan Greenspan admitted, we paid the military costs for going after Iraq’s oil reserves of 112 billion barrels, because we are addicted to oil, and because the oil lobby wanted the U.S. military might to secure these resources so oil companies could set new records for profits.

But notice that every barrel of oil from Iraq has cost more than $111 per barrel in military expenses plus interest on borrowed funds, plus additional untold costs for environmental degradation and health care for pollution-induced diseases along with the market price of another $100 for the ill-gotten barrel of oil.

The harsh reality is that oil dependence is killing our environment, our economy, and our self-esteem.

They already pull strings to direct the most powerful military on the planet and some day soon, the fossil and radioactive fuel industries will have the industrial military complex try to completely take over. Our recent monetary crises pale in comparison to this potential demise of democracy. My Mom talks about it and it shakes me to the core. I often wonder if my family is the only one that talks about this looming problem, because it’s really hard to find anyone that cares. We have become so accustomed to our prolonged addiction to the oil economy that it hard to imagine the “pushers” kicking us out of our homes and cars. Just think about everything you do and how it takes oil to do it. Now imagine your life without oil …. Farms could not produce. Trucks could not move food and fiber to market. We would not have food on our tables or clothes to wear.

What we have today is a wealth-depletion economy. The harder we work, the less oil we have, and the further we go in debt because we are dependent upon a finite source. We and every other community must urgently develop sustainable energy supplies.

Do you remember the TV show called The Six Million Dollar Man with Lee Majors playing Steve Austin as the astronaut that needed to be re-built after his craft crashed? "Steve Austin, astronaut. A man barely alive. Gentlemen, we can rebuild him. We have the technology. We have the capability to build the world's first bionic man. Steve Austin will be that man. Better than he was before. Better, stronger, faster."

Ladies and Gentlemen, we can rebuild the economy. We have the technology. We have the capability to build a worldwide solar hydrogen economy. It will take everybody. It will be better than before. Better, cleaner, sustainable.

My Dad, Roy McAlister, wrote a book called The Solar Hydrogen Civilization. It’s a great book about being civilized and uniting to save Civilization by devoting our minds and might to development of worldwide prosperity. You should read it, because it is my hope that we can, and our children and all the children of the world can work together to achieve such a Grand Plan.

It is far better to direct our hearts and minds to creating sustainable prosperity than processing poppies, brewing methamphetamines, remaining hooked on oil, or expanding prisons and sending armies to keep hooked.

Suppose we all try and only achieve sustainable economic development and fall short of prosperity but we have clean air and water, food to eat, and the feeling of, at least, that much accomplishment.

Suppose succeeding generations build on our example and continue the effort to achieve prosperity. Isn’t that far better than expanding our prisons and waging wars for the diminishing oil reserves?