The Arabs and OPEC think of energy conservation as westerners think of terrorists. Every terrorist act rattles the stock markets; every new incentive by activists or environmentalists or engineers to promote energy conservation is to the Arabs an act of terrorism. They react so violently because energy conservation is so exceedingly simple – painting roofs white all over America will lower our energy use by 25% overnight. Installing attic fans in every attic will lower the energy use by another 25%. Timing stoplights in major cities will reduce gas consumption by 25%. Marketing energy efficient vehicles will lower the gas consumption another 25%. All of these things could be done very easily, in weeks. That is what they fear the most.
This plan has been in progress for decades. The Freon Ban was heavily promoted by the Arabs because it requires equipment that is 25% less efficient ~ making up the losses from the Arab Oil Embargo of the 1970’s. They control the HVAC organizations, and police the engineering community to ensure that air quality standards will remain unenforceable so that they are able to lobotomize America, and nobody will be smart enough to figure out what has happened to them. For every aggressive action U.S. forces take in Iraq, there is an equal action in America to undermine all of the instructions that protect and preserve our freedoms.
The true power of terrorism is that it keeps the stock markets on a razor’s edge. That lets the super rich Arab sheiks control the direction of the markets, starting an avalanche of selling whenever they want. They have done so repeatedly, every time I organize an effort to promote energy conservation in a meaningful way, and increasingly in ways that appeal to the American public. The only thing that has kept them from success so far is the cover of my book, which is an Islamic symbol – so they think. That edge is all but over now, as they have taken hostage many contractors and it makes my promoting energy conservation out to be a motivation for these acts. Energy conservation has itself become a punishable offense as aiding and abetting the enemy, and is enforceable as such under the new rules of engagement, post hostage taking.
Terrorism is fundamentally the reaction of a technologically primitive culture to an advanced, aggressive one. Terrorists are scared of change, and hide behind the equally primitive skirts of their religion. Historically, terrorists have been civilized by the advanced culture – Rome being the finest example – but in the modern day, the terrorists have control of the world’s energy resources. They have the power (and the skills) to change the advanced culture, forcing it to become more primitive, less advanced, and de-evolved. The terrorists, having to use the accouterments of their enemy to accomplish their ends inevitably become a little more civilized – but society at large, driven to live in a peaceful, predictable world – will sacrifice as many of its “civil rights” as necessary. The extreme volatility of the stock markets accentuates this trend, and the ability of the super rich Arab sheiks to play this card, accentuates the trend even more. The third strike is the existence of the black fundamentalist Islamic movement in America – with prominent people like Condoleeza Rice and Janet Jackson willing and able to implement their radical agenda on a national level.