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Crude oil and internal combustion engines are a part of our lives.   Crude oil refines into<\/a> the primary energy that gets our vehicles around today.   It\u2019s what powers our cars and trucks on freeways across America every day.   Crude oil is responsible for many jobs and products across our country and around the world.   RMP takes those jobs, especially the jobs in America, very seriously. We feel a great responsibility to make sure it is well understood that we care  about jobs provided by the oil & gas industry to Americans and people around the world.  RMP advocates, however, for an immediate and responsible migration away from crude oil as a fuel source.  By ramping up the displacement of internal combustion engines with fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs), like the Toyota Mirai pictured above, America’s economy and national security will improve.  Mirai is the Japanese word for future<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

RMP’s plan envisions FCEVs steadily replacing internal combustion engines and responsibly displacing demand for crude oil while creating jobs that build a new domestic energy  infrastructure.   RMP will demonstrate economic benefits of this plan as well as cost savings related to our military spending.  America’s military spending represents 21% of our national budget.  We can stop millions of dollars of US treasure from going to countries in the Middle East every single day by migrating away from crude oil.  Money spent everyday to import crude oil could be money invested right here at home.  America can reduce military spending and take soldiers out of harm\u2019s way while turning hostile enemies into allies over the long term.  RMP can demonstrate with common sense why any group or individual that advocates for crude oil infrastructure expansion is advocating for higher taxes and diminished national security.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Brooke<\/a>
Actress Brooke Alexander as seen on TV commercials funded by the API. Learn how private investors are spending money in Brooke’s home state of Hawaii to advance fuel cell technology. Hawaii can break its dependence on imported petroleum and become 100% energy independent as can every state in America<\/em>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Have you seen the API funded TV commercials where Brooke Alexander<\/a> talks about how the USA may soon be the #1 oil producer in the world? According to the EIA, the USA holds 2.2% of the world\u2019s crude oil reserves and our neighbor Canada holds about 10.4%. Countries that are not so friendly to the USA, however, like Venezuela (18%), Saudi Arabia (16.2%), Iran\/Iraq (18%), and others collectively dominate the world\u2019s crude oil reserves. How can we listen to the spirit of Brooke\u2019s message and not question how it reconciles with common sense? How can the USA hold 2.2% of the world\u2019s crude oil reserves and sustain a #1 producer ranking?  Even if we did achieve the #1 oil producer ranking, as Brooke says we might, how long could it last when we hold only 2.2% of the world’s reserves?  Even if the USA held 100% of the world’s crude reserves,  the EIA<\/a> estimates proven world  crude oil reserves will be depleted in approximately 25 years at current consumption rates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

15 of the 19 hijackers<\/a> that flew airplanes into the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001 were from Saudi Arabia. Recent testimony from Al Qaida member Zacarias Moussaoui  suggests that the Saudi royals sponsored jihadists<\/a> like those responsible for the September 11, 2001 attack on America. We should question why we are sending millions of US dollars each day to countries in the Middle East where our enemies enjoy safe harbor.   We should question if purchasing crude oil from countries that support jihadists<\/a> is in the best interest of our economy and national security.  The American public has simple questions that deserve straight forward answers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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World crude oil reserves by region in the year ending 2014. Click to enlarge.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Money spent on refined crude oil for energy is in effect a tax on the American people. Changing our energy acquisition strategy could reduce that tax and create non-volatile American jobs.   The money used to broadcast messages like Brooke\u2019s come from multi-national companies with deep pockets that profit from crude oil infrastructure just the way it is. These companies would like to see crude oil infrastructure further expanded for their own private financial interests and actively lobby for tax abatements and subsidies. The API, with a consortium of multi-billion dollar and multi-national companies, gets real dollar returns by making sure Brooke\u2019s message is broadcast incessantly in prime time viewing hours.   The cost of broadcasting Brooke\u2019s message is in the millions of dollars, yet in pecuniary terms, these TV commercials are actually an immaterial cost for the API.  The real cost to companies within the API consortium would come if people started talking about a responsible migration away from crude oil.  When society starts to consider smarter choices now available because of new technologies applied to centuries old science, the API’s strength and relevance will start to diminish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Approximately<\/a>
Approximately 28% of crude oil imported by the USA comes from countries in the Persian Gulf and travels through the Strait of Hormuz by supertanker.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In 2013, 50% of the crude processed in US refineries was imported<\/a>. About 28% of our imports of crude oil and petroleum products came from the Persian Gulf countries of Bahrain, Iraq, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates. Our largest sources of net crude oil and petroleum product imports were Canada and Saudi Arabia. No matter how much oil America produces, we will always rely on imports from Canada, Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, Mexico, Russia, and others.  This dependence will never cease as long as we continue to rely on the internal combustion engine for our vehicles and standard gasoline fueling stations.  The API is even lobbying now for expansion of crude infrastructure like Arctic drilling, KXL, and calling for the US to lift it’s export ban while we continue to rely on foreign imports.  Even as we continue to import crude oil from hostile countries, countries that support jihadists, and allies alike, the EIA estimates world oil reserves will be depleted within 25 years<\/a>.   We all know that future generations cannot rely on oil as a stable source of energy regardless of what country it comes from.  The time to begin a responsible migration away from crude oil as an energy source is now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Why couldn\u2019t we start a responsible migration away from crude oil now? Why couldn\u2019t we shift our capital spending away from crude oil except for in areas where it is critical to our near term energy security and national security?   Those are rhetorical questions of course because the answer is: we can.   The technology exists today to start changing the vehicles on our roads from those that run on gasoline to those that run on electricity from a chemical reaction between H2<\/a> & atmospheric O2<\/a>.  And, while the only realistic way to ramp up hydrogen production in the near term is with natural gas and coal, the shift away from crude oil gives water a chance to compete as a renewable fuel source; this is a very important milestone in the hydrogen economy. When water is given a chance to compete as a renewable fuel, it will win. Water is simply a better choice to power our grid than hydrocarbons or salts<\/a> for a long-term sustainable economy that supports good jobs and reduced waste. RMP will continue to demonstrate this point as long as our organization exists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Phasing internal combustion engines out of our economy will obviously not happen overnight. It may even take decades to phase out our current energy infrastructure for a new one, but it is the best thing for the American economy, our national security, and our children\u2019s future. Money spent with the spirit of expanding crude oil infrastructure perverts common sense for  greed and ignoble intentions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"The<\/a>
The Hydrogen Economy makes its big debut in just a few short years in Tokyo.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The science of hydrogen fuel cells does not get talked about much in the US media in 2015.  The Hydrogen Economy, however, is approaching its big debut in the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo<\/a>. While countries around the world subsidize the megawatt by megawatt transition to fuel cells, some legislators<\/a> in America try to move policy backward by trying to stifle positive progress for the US economy with tax hikes that hurt stable job creation. Fuel cell technology is nothing new. What is different now, however, are advances in things like solar panels, wind turbines, and the gasification of dirty fuels like American coal, pet coke, and landfill waste.   Our legislators should be incentivizing infrastructure investment in the Hydrogen Economy to create sustainable jobs.  Technological advances are starting to make the possibility of turning water into hydrogen to power fuel cells the most practical application for providing 100% of the world\u2019s energy from sun and water in the years to come.   Our legislators should want to reduce taxes, create jobs, and improve national security rather than allow lobbying groups to keep us stuck with crude oil and its hidden tax burdens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The oil & gas industry has grown by adding 162,000 jobs between 2007 and 2012<\/a> while the US economy overall grew our workforce by about 1 million jobs.   The recent boom in oil & gas hiring can mostly be tied to advances in hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling. RMP understands hydraulic fracturing, horizontal drilling, and oil & gas production as well as anybody as demonstrated by the data we bring to life on our exclusive map (link removed – our Michigan oil map has been taken down for now).   Like all oil & gas booms, however, these volatile jobs will be lost quickly when the boom goes bust as is characteristic for employment in the oil industry.   As demonstrated by the numbers above, nearly 98% of the world\u2019s crude oil reserves exist outside our borders; the recent job creation in America simply cannot be sustained. In fact, Saudi Arabia, who can produce oil at a much lower cost than oil produced from America\u2019s hydraulically fractured formations, has recently flexed its muscles with a casual twist of a spigot to show who is king of oil production. Saudi Arabia\u2019s actions to preserve crude oil market share, have already significantly altered 2015 capital budgets for multi-billion dollar companies domestically and around the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Capital budgets and jobs tied to crude reserves produced in the United States like drilling, completing, trucking, man camps, and pipelines all come with more and more volatility as decades tick by. The rhetoric broadcast on primetime TV commercials by Brooke Alexander about energy security and energy independence can be truthful in part but can also be misleading and missing key information that could affect the decisions and sentiments of viewers [and voters]. If material job cuts and capital spending cuts in the US are fundamental occurrences to an economic sector, it\u2019s time to fix that sector with smarter legislation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The companies that have been doing much of the hiring in recent years related to drilling, completing, trucking, housing, and excavation are now in fact laying off many of the workers that were just hired over the last five years.   It\u2019s a clear indication that companies creating jobs in the crude oil industry may have the best intentions of helping provide jobs and tax revenues but are vulnerable to forces outside of their control. Crude oil production changes can cause even the largest companies in the world to quickly fall to their knees when countries like Saudi Arabia flex their muscles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

The hydrogen economy does not have these issues as hydrogen is the most abundant element in the universe and will allow every sovereign nation on this planet to eventually be 100% energy independent without crude oil and produce energy from water and\/or from garbage. Without crude oil, we can have a sustainable and redundant electrical grid and transportation sector powered by hydrogen fuel cells as internal combustion engines, conventional power plants, and crude oil are phased out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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STRAIT OF HORMUZ (June 10, 2012) The San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock ship USS New York (LPD 21), front, and the Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer USS Porter (DDG 78) transit the Strait of Hormuz. New York and Porter transited the strait with the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72). New York is part of the Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group with the embarked 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit (24th MEU) and is deployed supporting maritime security operations and theater security cooperation efforts in the U.S. 5th Fleet area of responsibility. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Jonathan P. Idle\/Released)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

There exists a link between crude oil and the jihad on America, its allies, and its values.   This is a complicated subject that continues to make itself evident when US treasure makes its way to countries with ISIS strongholds. 21% of the US budget<\/a> is allocated toward military defense spending. The costs of getting refined crude to our troops<\/a> alone in order to operate in hostile countries is in the billions of US dollars.  The cost of infrastructure built in hostile countries with US tax dollars is also in the billions. The US has also used billions of tax dollars to contract private for-profit military service companies to protect crude oil infrastructure in countries like Iraq. Our military protects this oil infrastructure to make sure America has the crude we need to keep our cars & trucks and economy going. Many of these hostile countries where US tax dollars are spent act as subsidies for private companies operating where ISIS enjoys stronghold positions.   Trillions of US tax dollars have also been spent protecting ports and shipping lanes like the Strait of Hormuz<\/a> in order for supertankers<\/a> to make safe passage through strategic maritime choke points. Those same tax dollars could be spent at home creating jobs or go toward other military needs around the world while improving relationships with more people in the Middle East than just princes, kings, and royals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many of the companies that have financial interests in hostile countries where ISIS operates have a dilemma.   They\u2019re forced to spend millions of dollars on financing the campaigns of politicians who effectively sponsor legislation related to maintaining the status quo of the crude oil monopoly on our transportation sector.   Some politicians accept donations from oil companies for campaign financing and have financial conflicts of interest related to the legislation they sponsor.   Their hope is that if we keep repeating the script on Brooke’s TV commercials, it will become true through the repetition of hearing it; even though it is profoundly misleading.   This unfortunately just delays the inevitable truth that the time is now to start the responsible migration away from crude oil as an energy source before we lose our competitive edge in world energy markets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Energy is a tax.   Military spending is a tax.   When politicians advocate for legislation that asks for capital spending to expand and perpetuate crude oil energy or stifle alternatives, they\u2019re putting our soldiers in harm’s way unnecessarily, perpetuating terrorism, increasing taxes, and creating unsustainable jobs whether they understand the economic consequences of their actions or not.   President Eisenhower, one of only a handful of 5 star generals<\/a> in US military history, warned us as he was leaving office, and no longer had a horse in the race of US politics, to beware of the military industrial complex<\/a>.   We can responsibly start the migration away from crude oil as an energy source by displacing internal combustion engines with fuel cell electric vehicles while improving our national security and reducing taxes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In 1989 it was a big deal for a production engine to achieve 300hp. The 1992 Corvette with an LT1 engine distinguished itself from predecessors with squarish taillights and squared tailpipes. Today, my 2014 Chevy Imapla has 305 HP with a V6 engine. Fuel cell electric vehicles will advance and evolve much the same way internal combustion engine technology has advanced.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The internal combustion engine has served us well.   It was an amazing advance that changed history and the economy of world. My dad worked as a mechanical engineer designing internal combustion engines from 1964 to to 1999 for General Motors.   He was on the team that designed an advanced small block V8 engine<\/a> that debuted in the 1992 Corvette called the LT1. This was a fun time for me as I was in high school and got my driver\u2019s license in 1987 when the LT1 engine was under development. My dad would often bring home developmental Corvettes from work and I would get a chance to drive them.   I got to feel the power of these amazing Corvettes as a young man as I laid down rubber throughout Farmington Hills, Michigan. I remember well the half upset and half amused look on my dad’s face when I pulled into the garage and the smell of burnt rubber started to permeate the air. The car and its internal combustion engine that my dad and his colleagues brought to life was amazingly fun to drive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

The people of Detroit have helped make internal combustion engines that, unfortunately, have helped give crude oil enough value to form monopolies that influence bad legislation and poison free market economics.   General Motors, the company created and produced the Corvette that debuted in 1992, has more fuel cell patents than any other company in the world.  GM claims their first production fuel cell vehicle will arrive around the year 2020.  GM and Ford will soon start to make FCEVs here in Michigan to compete with those from Japan and Korea.  We can help make a big impact on improving America’s economy by reducing the need for crude oil and help fix an economic problem that we unwittingly helped create with the internal combustion engine.  We the people should lobby for public H2 fueling stations to start a friendly competition with other states like California to see who can build a better grid faster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Detroit should have high regard for the small block V8 engines it has designed and produced over the years as well as many other four and six cylinder engines.  Cars like Corvettes and Ford Mustangs have been fun to drive with their sweet sounding engines and the exhilaration of running the shifter through the gears. We’ve had advanced engineering come out of Detroit that we should be very proud of and we are.  These internal combustion engines, however, should start to make their way into the halls of our automotive museums. We can still build cars that are a lot of fun and utility to drive without internal combustion engines.   The age of electrification is here and it makes more economic sense to stop burning fuels and start using electrolysis and pyrolysis<\/a> to make hydrogen to power our vehicles.  We need to start a conversation with the API about their transition plan for the benefit of the workers in their industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The conversation needs to be started about the responsible migration away from the use of crude oil; a migration that looks out for the American worker, the American taxpayer, and America\u2019s retirees. I tweeted to Linda Rozett, the director of communications for the API<\/a> (@lrozett), the following: \u201cfossil fuels won\u2019t last forever. What\u2019s the API\u2019s plan for a responsible migration toward a post hydrocarbon society?\u201d  When I thought that she didn\u2019t reply to the tweet after a couple days I didn\u2019t think much of it. But, when I went to look back at her twitter account I noticed that she had responded in a manner of sorts. She went through a process<\/a> to remove me as a follower rather than address the question. The API has spent untold amounts of money to create EID<\/a> and pay for the TV commercials referenced above as part of what they call an education and public outreach program<\/a>.  Instead of reaching out to the public, however, Linda just avoided her responsibility to the public. Her actions belie the rhetoric published by her organization. People like myself and many other Americans have simple and straight forward questions about natural resources owned by the public.  These questions are based on science, evidence, and facts like those cited throughout this post. I would like to think we could have an open dialogue where questions like mine are addressed and talked about in a civil manner.  No American wants to see any other American that wants to work out of a job.  RMP only seeks to start a dialogue about how we can responsibly move our country away from an energy source [crude oil] that is unsustainable in the coming decades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As Detroiters, we gave crude value with the internal combustion engines we made famous.   Now it is time to retire the internal combustion engine and it will be tough to close such a storied chapter of our history.  Significant challenges remain in order to graduate from the hydrocarbon<\/strong> economy to the hydrogen<\/strong> economy.  Storage solutions for hydrogen are complex but are getting better with each manufactured iteration.  Building fueling stations costs real money, but these investments have a high rate of return like Eisenhower’s investment in building the Interstate Highway System<\/a>.   Any money spent to incentivize adoption of FCEVs and the Hydrogen Economy pays greater dividends to US taxpayers than investing in crude oil.  Moving from the internal combustion engine to Fuel Cell Electric Vehicles (FCEVs) will be a major progression in America’s great history and a great paradigm shift in our domestic economy and the world economy. Detroit can still make world class automobiles that compete with Japanese, Korean, and German made vehicles. We can make world class cars that perform on race tracks and climb rugged terrain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"When<\/a>
When politicians are brave enough and smart enough to support good sense legislation, America wins. In this picture Arnold Schwarzenegger , the Governor of California at the time, fuels a vehicle with H2.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In 1961, in his Internal Combustion class at Purdue University, my dad\u2019s teacher, Professor Kromer, lectured about fuel cells. In 1961 fuel cells probably seemed like a pipe dream in the halls of Purdue University.   In the late 1970\u2019s my dad took me to the Detroit Auto Show before there was any glitz & glamour in Cobo Hall.  The Auto Show was just a bunch of folding card tables with pamphlets on them, some carpet remnants covering the Cobo floor, and cars parked throughout the building.   In a back corner display against a wall was a Honda fuel cell exhibit.  My dad took time to teach me about how Honda was one of the most advanced fuel cell developers in the world in the late 1970’s. He explained to me how fuel cells worked and how one day they might become mass produced.  Now in 2015, at the North American International Auto Show, which is now such a gala event, Honda unveiled an FCV concept that looks more geared toward real mass manufacturing than anything we\u2019ve ever seen before. Today, Toyota Motor Company is releasing video after video of their Mirai fuel cell vehicle assembly plant in Japan as they gear up for mass production of fuel cell electric vehicles.  Toyota is investing millions of dollars into fueling stations in Japan & California.  Toyota recently even gave away all of its fuel cell patents<\/a> to help kickstart the Hydrogen Economy in America.  Let’s hope Michigan steps up its participation in this exciting transition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the 54 years since Professor Kromer spoke about fuel cell technology in that Purdue classroom in 1961, we have reached a turning point in the practical application of the hydrogen economy. Advances in solar panels and the capture of energy from the sun have made the hydrogen fuel cell economy a viable solution for 100% of the world\u2019s energy needs.  Crude oil can be phased out of our economy responsibly with greater benefits to America<\/a> and the World.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The United States can reduce conflict throughout the world and still maintain the world\u2019s best military.  It can be done without crude oil and its dead end future.  The United States can create sustainable jobs and a sustainable energy infrastructure. The time has come to start the conversation about the responsible migration  away from crude oil to power our vehicles. All the money in the world cannot stop an idea who\u2019s time has come.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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