INDEPENDENCE DAY

Energy independence is a US goal. Spoken by every president since Nixon and the oil embargo. I was there.

Clean energy - to give us clean air and clean water and clean earth - is our goal. Just make it clean. And keep it clean. Smartly. And cheaply. EPA also started under Nixon. When my wife and I returned from Asia in '70, the skies over Cincinnati were so dirty I felt sick, as a pilot. The river was practically a sewer and dump. And pesticides were threatening eagles. Our generation and our following generations have changed all that.

Clean energy has made amazing strides since '70. Absolutely amazing. We are just beginning to see how amazing the progress. Much of it from US. We should be very proud. And thankful for the wisdom and hard work that has brought us this far.

Our only problem seems to be politics anymore. And finance.

Clean energy: hydro, wind, solar, nuclear, geothermal, tidal/wave and some I may be forgetting. I am a couple sheets to the wind already for the 4th celebration. Though it's so hot - over 100 degrees heat index(and serious drought and heat spreading through the midwest corn, soybean and vegetable gardens, um, what global warming) I will probably continue to use NG today to cool my home and stay in. O yea, and thoughts on the rise of oceans from ice melting on both poles - we could pump it out of the oceans and water our gardens and replenish our aquifers. And get those costs down over the next few decades. If we live that long. And hope we started early enough on clean energy.

O yea, cars, trucks, trains, ships, etc. How do we clean those emissions? Clean electricity. And small, modular, safe thorium nuclear. And ... there's always more.

So. Energy independence. Clean energy. World markets for clean energy. Onward and upward. Happy 4th, all you crazy patriots out there. Happy independence. Happy freedom. For all. By all. Of all. Or how it goes for you.

236 years my count. God please continue to bless the USA. Made up of all the 12 tribes of Israel? Everybody's here. Independence. When in the course of human events.... We should all read the Declaration today. Or hear it. Every year.