Comments on: Eastern Oregon Apollo http://blog.onwardoregon.org/74/ Here are snippets from the three most-recent postings. Click an article title below to read more. Wed, 07 Jan 2009 02:38:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: ricki(richelle) duckwall http://blog.onwardoregon.org/74/#comment-2561 ricki(richelle) duckwall Fri, 03 Mar 2006 06:35:03 +0000 http://blog.onwardoregon.org/?p=74#comment-2561 I agree with Ralph Ritchie and Thomas Hojem on the seriousness of this energy crisis. The average joe needs to wake up and take heed. I try to live simply and meagerly...recycling since 1980, turning off lights when leaving the room, consolidating errands. I grew up in the 50's and 60's. We didn't have all the fancy readymade gadgets. My skateboard was literally an old board nailed onto my steel rollerskate. A washing machine lasted 25 years or more til needing any sort of repair. My $625 washer is defective in little over one year. We live in a throw away society. Disposable. Materialistic. And the U.S. is responsible for 25% of the greenhouse gases of the entire world. Nuclear energy scares me too. I never could figure how any source of energy was worth the 24,000 year radioactive bi-product. And now I see on the telly President Bush in his visit to India agreeing to assist and aid in materials for their nuclear energy program. Another disappointment coming from this administration. I agree with Ralph Ritchie and Thomas Hojem on the seriousness of this energy crisis. The average joe needs to wake up and take heed. I try to live simply and meagerly…recycling since 1980, turning off lights when leaving the room, consolidating errands. I grew up in the 50’s and 60’s. We didn’t have all the fancy readymade gadgets. My skateboard was literally an old board nailed onto my steel rollerskate. A washing machine lasted 25 years or more til needing any sort of repair. My $625 washer is defective in little over one year. We live in a throw away society. Disposable. Materialistic. And the U.S. is responsible for 25% of the greenhouse gases of the entire world.
Nuclear energy scares me too. I never could figure how any source of energy was worth the 24,000 year radioactive bi-product. And now I see on the telly President Bush in his visit to India agreeing to assist and aid in materials for their nuclear energy program. Another disappointment coming from this administration.

]]> By: Ralph Ritchie http://blog.onwardoregon.org/74/#comment-1331 Ralph Ritchie Sat, 04 Feb 2006 16:42:47 +0000 http://blog.onwardoregon.org/?p=74#comment-1331 Dear Thomas Hojem You have the right idea about fossil fuel shortage, but you are naive about the timing. It’s here NOW. I refer you to Daily Reckoning, an Investment newsletter- That’s the kind who do not sell stocks; they earn their bread by their reliability in predicting trends and the future for their readers. These guys are good. ( two recent books on the NY Times best seller list ). Anyway, find them and look for the edition entitled “E-Day”, dated 11/04/05. You have little idea the magnitude of the problem or its consequences. They predict oil at $150/ barrel by July of THIS year! You need not worry about agriculture problems, the stores will be empty and people won’t be able to get to them anyway. I hope you study Solar Energy, or any other alternate, renewable energy sources before you graduate You will find another bit of the energy shortage story on our web page, www.ritchieunliimitedpublications.com. . I am a writer/publisher and fully half of our 40 + books deal with energy conservation. No, I am not a “tree hugger”, but I have spent the last fifty years trying, by example, to encourage energy conservation. Then I write about how to do it from experience. Don’t be so hard on the people of Western Oregon. Trees can make methanol and the trees may be our salvation. I have spent time on methane digesters, too. As to the doped up group, attribute that to statistical population density. There will always be some bent on self destruction. We tolerate them much like you tolerate mosquitos at home. While we came back to the city, Springfield ( hardly a city), for our later years; we spent over 30 years in rural living, and we miss it. Survival may become foremost and that’s the theme of more of my how-to books. I was teaching engineering, at Cal Poly, during the Viet Nam War and I am fully aware of the effects of a conservative Republican group on campus. More of the mosquito thing. What scares me more is the reemphasis on Nuclear Energy. I worked on the Manhattan Project at UC Berkeley after WWII and I know the hazards involved. There are too many unsolved problems that keep being postponed. I believe that we would be better off with an energy shortage than having it from Reactors. I just hope that Bush lives to be 100 so he will have to cope with his mistakes. Sometimes I feel like Methuselah talking to babes, but you have your head on straight; all you need is time. I hope you have the time to learn. Dear Thomas Hojem

You have the right idea about fossil fuel shortage, but you are naive about the timing. It’s here NOW.
I refer you to Daily Reckoning, an Investment newsletter- That’s the kind who do not sell stocks; they earn their bread by their reliability in predicting trends and the future for their readers. These guys are good. ( two recent books on the NY Times best seller list ).
Anyway, find them and look for the edition entitled “E-Day”, dated 11/04/05. You have little idea the magnitude of the problem or its consequences. They predict oil at $150/ barrel by July of THIS year!

You need not worry about agriculture problems, the stores will be empty and people won’t be able to get to them anyway. I hope you study Solar Energy, or any other alternate, renewable energy sources before you graduate

You will find another bit of the energy shortage story on our web page, http://www.ritchieunliimitedpublications.com. . I am a writer/publisher and fully half of our 40 + books deal with energy conservation.
No, I am not a “tree hugger”, but I have spent the last fifty years trying, by example, to encourage energy conservation. Then I write about how to do it from experience.

Don’t be so hard on the people of Western Oregon. Trees can make methanol and the trees may be our salvation. I have spent time on methane digesters, too.
As to the doped up group, attribute that to statistical population density. There will always be some bent on self destruction. We tolerate them much like you tolerate mosquitos at home. While we came back to the city, Springfield ( hardly a city), for our later years; we spent over 30 years in rural living, and we miss it.

Survival may become foremost and that’s the theme of more of my how-to books.

I was teaching engineering, at Cal Poly, during the Viet Nam War and I am fully aware of the effects of a conservative Republican group on campus. More of the mosquito thing.

What scares me more is the reemphasis on Nuclear Energy. I worked on the Manhattan Project at UC Berkeley after WWII and I know the hazards involved. There are too many unsolved problems that keep being postponed. I believe that we would be better off with an energy shortage than having it from Reactors. I just hope that Bush lives to be 100 so he will have to cope with his mistakes.

Sometimes I feel like Methuselah talking to babes, but you have your head on straight; all you need is time. I hope you have the time to learn.

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