Bio Diesel, Alternative Fuel

ELECTION DAY: November 06, 2018

RICH STEVENSON

CANDIDATE FOR KY 3 U.S. Congress

Re-Enact the Glass-Steagall Act, 27 Pages

Solutions for Energy Independence

I will finish research on energy independence and new developments to expand this discussion well into the 2016 campaign season. New developments will be the way to a clean energy future. Current technology and solutions such as solar, geothermal, and bio diesel could provide up to 40% of our energy needs. We need other solutions to get the other 60%. Increasing efficiency may obtain another 10% to 20%.

Petroleum and natural gas are at best, a temporary one or two generation solution. Nuclear fission is also a temporary one or two generation solution fraught with insoluble safety issues. Fracking could produce the most devastating natural disaster in human history. See Fracking paragraph below. Long range solutions must be found elsewhere.

In view of our dependence on foreign oil and the link of terrorism to the largest petroleum producing region in the world, reducing energy dependence in every way possible must be a top policy priority for the near future.

Alternate fuels should have been a much higher priority than they have been over the past forty years. Energy has been a low public policy priority due to the influence of the petroleum industry in controlling Congress with political contributions to the two-party monopoly.

Need I mention the Enron scandal? The very avoidable BP Oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico? Environmental disaster! Human activities can do irreversible harm.

Fracking

Extends the energy life line at a much too high cost to survival of the next generations of people. Fracking may contaminate 100% of the water supply available in the U.S. Uncontaminated water is essential to human survival. The potential for death of our species and much of life as we know it is a too real scenario for fracking to be considered a solution. We must abandon this solution before any further damage is done to water, to people and to our ecosystem.

Bio Diesel

We have a leading player in the bio diesel energy solution located in our Tri-State Region. Griffin Industries has a pilot plant that produces two million gallons of bio diesel per year located across the Ohio river in Northern Kentucky. 30% of all petroleum used is burned in various diesel applications, the largest probably being trucking.

Since bio diesel can be produced and used with zero petroleum additives, we could reduce our dependence on foreign oil by at least 30%. Using 100% bio diesel as the fuel increases diesel engine life, greatly reduces harmful emissions, and could create a huge market for the oil of industrial hemp and other plants. That new market could greatly benefit farmers with a huge cash crop to take the place of tobacco. In addition, new, bigger, more efficient bio diesel plants would fortify our domestic economy with many high paying manufacturing jobs.

The benefits do sound far too good to be true. I am looking into the downside for bio-diesel products. I have found none to date. My question: Why aren't we implementing a full-scale program to develop bio diesel to reduce our dependence on foreign oil? One obvious answer is that international corporate oil interests are blocking a loss of market share for their petroleum products.

I Pledge to be Self Term-Limited to Two Terms in Office: Four Years

RICH STEVENSON, dist03ky@cs2pr.us

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