<b>Reduce plant food or Redress impending fuel scarcity?</b>
<a href="http://www.plantsneedco2.org/default.aspx?menuitemid=352&AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1" rel="nofollow">Why reduce plant food (CO2)?</a>
<blockquote>the past 150-year increase in atmospheric CO2 concentration has resulted in mean yield increases of 70% for C3 cereals, 28% for C4 cereals, 33% for fruits and melons, 62% for legumes, 67% for root and tuber crops, and 51% for vegetables. . . .
Today in Holland, for example, growers produce crops, vegetables and ornamentals in glass greenhouses with air enriched to as much as 1,000 ppm CO2 during daylight hours, experiencing yield enhancements on the order of 20 to 40% for this multi-billion dollar industry.. . .</blockquote>
The Pied Piper of Washington is misleadingly diverting our focus to a molehill and persuading us to spend a mountain of resources on it.
The <b>greatest danger </b>of Obama's power plan is that it <b>diverts our attention</b> from the Mt. Everest of <b>impending global constrained fuel supplies</b>. Fuel growth insufficient to meet economic needs and then inevitable declining fossil fuel supply are the greatest threat to modern economies.
The US Dept. of Energy's Energy Information Agency (EIA) already <a href="http://www.eia.gov/analysis/petroleum/crudetypes/" / rel="nofollow">forecasts <b>US oil production to max out about 2020!</b></a>
Robert L. Hirsch recently commented on the current oil situation: <a href="http://peak-oil.org/deja-vu-with-a-twist/" / rel="nofollow">Déjà Vu With a Twist?</a>
<blockquote>. . .As in the mid-1980s, it is conceivable that Saudi might maintain high oil production for many years, forcing oil prices to remain around $40-50 per barrel, possibly lower. If that were to happen, the US and world tight light oil enterprise would be decimated, a number of deep-water and expensive frontier projects would be suspended or canceled, and heavy oil production in Canada and Venezuela would falter, to name just some of the obvious. Rigs would be idled and could eventually be scrapped; a large number of service contracts would be canceled; people throughout the industry would be laid off and seek employment outside the industry; and royalties would be lost. US GDP would be negatively impacted, and U.S. oil imports would increase, negatively impacting the U.S. balance of payments. . . .
A number of analysts believe that the world is close to the onset of world oilproduction decline, often called “peaking.” In a worst case scenario, the onset of decline could start after 2015, when U.S. and world high-cost oil production capability will have been significantly degraded, making catch-up much more difficult than it might have been just a year ago. . . .
PPS. Rarely in human history has one country had the ability to inflict such a large impact on the economies of so many other countries with just the turn of a valve.
PPS. What might happen if the house of Saud is overthrown and unfriendlies take charge of the Saudi oil valve? Before the onset of decline? After the onset of decline?</blockquote>
Why are we not debating why Obama is diverting our attention in the face of Saudi oil plays decimating US high cost oil industry?