The Instrument of God’s Chastisement =
Oil
Richard Salbato 7-16-2008
After 40 years of the study of Catholic Prophecy, the one consistent element of future prophesy was a coming Chastisement, purification, punishment or whatever you want to call this. What is evident is that it has not happened yet, it will be world wide, and in terms of total deaths, it will be greater than the flood. It will be long before the end of the world, and long before the rise of the Antichrist. For the last half of this study, I have tried to figure out just how this Chastisement would come about and what I could do about it. It is from this study that I came to know that there are many false apparitions and false prophets. This was easy to see because God cannot contradict God, and many of these prophesies contradicted other prophesies. Once, however, that I was able to compile and compare only true prophesies I was able to see what would not happen and what I could not do to protect myself. What I have never found out is exactly how this would start and how it would end, although it will be somewhere between 4 and 7 years.
Somewhere in this period will appear two holy men, the pope
and someone we call the great Monarch to bring us out of these problems.
Without a lot of evidence, I have concluded that these two men could not do
this without the help of the
The object of this Newsletter is not to talk about the Chastisement, I have already done that over and over (see references below – Note 5). The object is to speculate on just how it might start and what we can do about it. Those who are looking for signs in the sky or natural disasters have not studied prophesy correctly. These things (signs and wonders) refer to the time of the Antichrist; not our time.
Two great dangers to
The first great danger then is that by 2030 the Federal Government’s cost of the interest on foreign debt and entitlements alone will equal all the Federal Budget leaving nothing else left over for running the government or the military. Disregarding entitlements for now, we cannot keep buying foreign oil without going bankrupt as a nation. In fact, we must stop this within two years or it is too late. More than an economic issue, it is a national survival issue.
The second great
danger is an EMP attack. EMP is
Electrical Magnetic Pulse. An EMP attack could disrupt all electrical systems
in a given area, including the electric operations of your car. The best way to
have a massive EMP attack is to have a nuclear explosion high in the atmosphere
above the
Some people say that no one would do this because we could so easily retaliate and do the same to them. Not so fast, because as the book above points out, this bomb could be shot from a ship and the ship then sank into the ocean. We would not know who fired it.
We have the know how to protect ourselves from this but we have not done it. I worked for 10 years as an engineer for the government and part of that work was protection against EMP, but since then it has stopped. (See Note 1)
Two Great Sins
The two great sins in
In this Newsletter, however, I want to talk about oil, and the sin of oil. From the time of the invention of tools we
have learned to maximize our labor with the use of energy. Years ago we should have used some moral
criteria in the purchase of this energy instead of just buying the cheapest
energy. We could have used our own energy because in total
Because oil companies like Exxon and Shell are international
companies, they buy oil in the cheapest place and sell it at the best
price. If they can buy from
Environmentalists
Personally, I do not believe there is any such thing as global warming. I remember when Al Gore stormed into the Congress demanding we do something about global cooling years ago. Later I remember when some Congressman warned about the Ozone and passed a bill outlawing aerosol cans only to find that Ozone vacillates with or without people’s help. Now we find Al Gore making a strange film on global warming, where he faked ice melting. Now we find that the north and south poles are getting colder and not warmer. Polar Bears, the icon of global warming, have had more babies this year than ever before in history.
When we were about to sign the Kyoto treaty on global warming, 31,072 American scientists (9,021 with PhDs) signed a petition stating there is no scientific evidence of man made global warming.
But personally I do not care, because I hope people keep
thinking there is such a thing as global warming because it fits into my plan
to end our support of Satanists. Just as
Gandhi stopped buying English clothes made with Indian slaves and even burned
them. It was costly for Indians to go back to making their own clothes but it
ended the slavery. How was
We must stop buying oil from the
National Economics
As said above we, as a Nation, own $8 Trillion Dollars to foreign governments, mostly for oil. That will continue to grow by a trillion each year until we can no longer pay even the interest. For this reason, the dollar continues to loose value, and when it looses value the cost of foreign goods like oil continues to go higher and higher. It can be asked what came first the chicken or the egg, but it does not matter, the fact is that one drives the other, and it works both ways.
If we took the $400 billion that Americans spend every year on oil that goes into cars, we could use that money instead to pay the interest on an $8 trillion loan. That would be more than enough to swap out the 250 million registered cars in the country with electric vehicles, and still have trillion of dollars left over to start building new power plants based on renewable or nuclear energy. (Even if we stick with coal plants, they are still more energy efficient than car engines). Here is his math:
* total oil consumption in the
* cost per barrel: $140
* days in year: 365
* total spent per year: more than $1 trillion
* percentage of oil consumed by passenger cars: 40
* total spent per year on oil for passenger cars: $400 billion
* at 5 interest, how much we could borrow and pay $400 billion every year in
interest: $8 trillion
* number of registered cars in the U.S.: 250 million.
* cost of a new electric car, if mass-produced:
$20,000
* value of a used car, if exported to Latin America or
* cost to upgrade average existing American car to a brand-new electric car:
$15,000
* number that could be converted for $8 trillion: more than 500 million cars
(i.e., twice as many as we have now)
Personal Economics
The average American household spends $800.00 per month on gas, or $9,600.00 per year. That is at $4.00 per gallon. If that household was using natural gas for cars instead, it would spend $3,100.00 per year or a $6,500.00 savings. Of course, they do not have a natural gas car, and to convert it would cost $2000,00 and another $2000.00 to have a converter at the home to pump natural gas into the car or cars from the natural gas of the house.
Considering that even with the conversion, they would save $2,500.00 in the first year, and over $6,000.00 every year after, the economics make great sense. Of course on days that you might travel a long distance you would have to know that you can find gas stations that would pump natural gas, but if you will see below, the internet can find those stations for you. I have 20 stations within 30 miles of my house. (Note )
What about electric cars? In the long run a combination of natural gas and electric cars will be the perfect solution because it will be much cheaper and both can be filled at home. However, for the next 15 years, electric cars are too expensive to make sense. The higher price paid for the electric car can not be recovered in less than 8 to 10 years.
National Responsibility
Lets make no mistake about it, the United States of America will never come out of this economic recession or even escape another war with Iran, unless and until we get totally off foreign oil right now. This can be done with a simple but comprehensive energy plan to be implemented right away.
The American Solution
1. Add a $20.00 per barrel tax on every drop of oil from Opec Nations, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi
Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Libya, Algeria, Nigeria, Angola, Venezuela and
Ecuador and no
tax on oil from Canada, Mexico and Europe.
At the same time, offer a tax deduction for every drop of oil taken from
American soil and used in
You might think
this would drive the price of gas up to $5.00 a gallon, but at the same time the
speculators (who are buying long) will jump out of the market. Even with the additional $20.00 tax, oil will
drop to a total of about $130.00 per barrel.
That $20.00 in tax would be 30% of our use or 21,000,000 barrels times
30% or 6,300,000 barrels or $1,260,000,000 or twice our yearly national
debt.
Therefore our
national debt of 8 trillion would be paid off in 4 years, saving us from national
bankruptcy. Of course, it would not be
that simple because Obec will then try to stop us by
dropping the price of oil and making it less economic to drill for our
own. We must not back off though even if
it drops to $50 a barrel, because we are in their power now and that is not
acceptable.
2. Drill and mine
for oil in
If in time we produce more petroleum than we need because of
our conversion to natural gas and electric cars, we can sell it to
3. Convert coal to diesel fuel for large trucks, airplanes
and the military. Even now any airplane
that lands and re-fuels in
4. Change all natural gas electric plants to clean coal, wind, solar and nuclear so that the natural gas can be used only for cars and home heating.
5. Change all cars made or shipped to
6. Give all Gas Stations an interest free loan to add natural gas pumps.
The plan is simple and easy to follow.
1. The
President should get on the TV and tell people that if we switch to CNG we can
dramatically reduce any foreign oil dependencies and reduce all the green house
emissions.
2. The
government can give interest free loans to install the gas station equipment
for stations willing to participate in exchange for keeping the prices under
$1.50 for the first three years.
(This is
entirely possible -
3. Make the
cost of converting current gas cars from $2,000 to as little as $500.
If we are
transparent about this effort and pushed we could have the east coast and west
coast done with about 40% of the cars converted by next summer. This plan would
create jobs and generate profits for all companies concerned and would decrease
our dependence all while making for a greener planet and decreasing our gas and
travel costs.
Added bonus -
if we get the correct tanks we should be able to use them for CNG now and
switch them to Hydrogen later. Yes the first Hydrogen car just rolled off the
assembly line but we are a good five years away from being able to afford it.
Sound
too good to be true. It's not. We just
have to get out of our own way and make the Government do the same.
Imagine paying as
little as $1.25 a gallon to run your car. Not for
gasoline. Instead, you would pump a fuel that's readily available, North
American-produced and virtually pollution-free. Many motorists could even fill
up in their own garages every night just like they would power-up with one of
the gas-electric plug-in hybrids still under development.
With a home unit made by a company called FuelMaker, refilling a car overnight from a home's own
natural-gas supply can drop the price even more. In
The home unit, called Phill,
mounts on a garage wall and is about the size of an old pay telephone. It costs
about $3,900, but is eligible for a $1,000 federal tax credit and, at least in
A Honda GX natural gas car starts at $24,590, and
is eligible for a $4,000 federal tax credit. It compares feature-wise to a
midlevel, gasoline-powered $17,760 Civic LX. So right now it is $7,000 more expensive
but pays itself off in gas saving in two years. The 2007 natural-gas GX is
government rated at 28 miles a gallon in the city, 39 on the highway. If this
was mandated, however, this price would drop to below the Civic LX.
Some dealers carry them in stock. Others require
that customers order them, because there is so little demand.
Honda says if there were a spurt in orders, more
can be made because they come right down the line at the automaker's
•Plentiful. While natural gas isn't
renewable like ethanol, there's lots of it. Reserves point to at least a
60-year supply, says the Natural Gas Supply Association. This is only the
reserves we already have wells in and what we have not drilled yet would be a
300 year supply. Only 56% of crude oil
for
•Environmentally
friendly. Natural
gas creates so few emissions that Civic GX is the cleanest internal-combustion
powered car on the road. It's greener than a Toyota Prius
gasoline-electric hybrid and tied with the Civic hybrid, according to the
Energy Department rankings for 2007 models.
Prius and the two Civics are the
only vehicles clean enough to qualify for stickers that allow solo drivers to
take them in
Ellis says that on a smoggy day, the GX's exhaust is cleaner than the polluted air its engine
sucks in. Natural gas is more than 20% better for carbon dioxide emissions,
blamed for climate change, than comparable gasoline engines.
•Ready to go. Other major automakers
sell natural-gas-powered cars in Europe, Asia, South America and elsewhere,
just not in the
About 1,500 fueling stations nationwide
There are about 150,000
natural-gas vehicles in the
Natural gas is held back by the limited but growing
number of fueling stations. Nationwide, there are about 1,500 natural-gas
vehicle stations, about half of which sell to the public.
One chain, Clean Energy, has expanded to 170
stations in 75 markets. Oil baron T. Boone Pickens, who is a big shareholder in
the company, says he got into the natural-gas fueling business nearly two
decades ago because it is "cheap, clean and domestic.”
Automakers complain that when they made natural-gas
vehicles, no one bought them, except bureaucrats for government fleets. Besides
a shortage of stations, consumers are turned off by limited range — about 200
miles a tankful for today's GX — and a fuel tank that
eats up trunk space. A driver can carry only about two small suitcases upright
in the GX.
The auto industry's past interest was driven
primarily by the need to try to fulfill government requirements at the time
designed to spur development of clean alternative energy. Automakers saw
interest fall apart when rules were modified to allow government fleet
operators to switch from natural gas to flex-fuel vehicles, which burn either
E85 ethanol or regular gasoline.
Ford Motor (F)
phased out natural gas pickups and vans after the 2004 model year, but it still
does after-sales CNG conversions in
"The (sales) volume went down every
year," GM spokeswoman Nancy Libby says. "Even when Ford and Chrysler
stopped making natural-gas vehicles before us, it didn't change that
fact."
That was before the advent of home fueling. It was
also ahead of the soaring gasoline prices of the last couple of years and
President Bush's call for a 20% reduction in gasoline use.
The use of natural gas as a motor-vehicle fuel has
tripled in the past decade, the Energy Information Administration reports. For
instance, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority in
Option for big diesels like trash trucks
Natural gas could never replace gasoline. But it is
a worthy substitute for a good chunk, maybe 20% or 30%, of the high-fuel-use
market, Kolodziej says. Some environmentalists agree
on the strategy.
Natural gas is a fossil fuel best suited to being
"targeted to where it has the biggest public-health bang for the
buck," which is to replace big diesels like trash trucks, says Roland
Hwang, vehicle policy director for the National Resources Defense Council. For
the consumer market, "The window of opportunity has passed on natural
gas."
Honda deserves credit for continuing to market a
natural-gas car, says Tim Carmichael, president of the Coalition for Clean Air,
a
It didn't require much of an incentive, however,
for 2003 Civic GX owner Jeff Church, 51, an airline pilot who lives in
Home Natural Gas Unit
Honda and a partner sell
a $2,000 home fueling station for natural gas cars. Honda said the unit offers a
"personalized solution" to the fact that natural gas is not sold at
gasoline stations.
"The biggest obstacle to broader acceptance of natural gas vehicles is the
limited availability of refueling stations," American Honda Vice President
Tom Elliott, said in a statement.
Dubbed Phill, the unit attaches to a garage wall in homes with a
natural gas connection and takes about six hours to refill Honda's Civic GX,
the only compressed natural gas car still sold in the United States after Ford
discontinued its model earlier this year.
Natural gas lines in
homes are low pressure, and Phill gradually increases
that pressure to the 3,000 or 3,600 pounds per square inch required by natural
gas vehicles.
The unit is built by
Toronto-based FuelMaker Corp., which says Phill is quieter than the average clothes' dryer and uses
just 800 watts of electricity.
The unit is likely to
be bundled with the Civic GX, now in its seventh year of
Notes:
2. The OPEC minister will look you in the eyes and state:
' We are at war with you infidels. Have been since the embargo in the 1970s. You are so arrogant you haven't even recognized it. You have more missiles, bombs, and technology; so we are fighting with the best weapon we have and extracting on a net basis about $700 billion/year out of your economy. We will destroy you! Death to the infidels!
While I am here I would like to thank you for the following: Not
developing your 250-300 year supply of oil shale and tar sands. we know if you did this, it would create millions of jobs
for US citizens, expand your engineering capabilities, and keep the wealth in
the
Thanks for limiting defense dept. purchases of oil sands from your
neighbors to the north. We love it when you confuse your allies.
Thanks for over regulating every segment of your economy and thus delaying,
by decades, the development of alternate fuel technologies.
Thanks for limiting drilling off your coasts, in
plant that might be inconvenienced. Better that your people suffer! Glad
to see our lobbying efforts have been so effective.
Corn based Ethanol. Praise Allah for this sham program! Perhaps you
will destroy yourself from the inside with these types of policies. This is a
gift from Allah, praise his name! We never would have thought of this one! This
is better than when you pay your farmers NOT TO GROW FOOD. Have them use more
energy to create less energy, and simultaneously drive food prices through the
roof. Thank you US Congress!!!!
And finally, we appreciate you letting us fleece you without end. You
will be glad to know we have been accumulating shares in your banks, real
estate, and publicly held companies. We also finance a good portion of your
debt and now manipulate your markets, currency, and economies to our benefit.
3. Natural Gas Cars
Natural gas or CNG cars are
available in this form now. GM makes 9 cars but does not sell any in the
Honda makes one the Civic GX - but GM Ford and Toyota have all made them
previously and have them in fleet models.
Ford and GM have made CNG cars as far back as 1940.
4. Why natural gas?
Honda has been developing natural gas cars over the
last decade, when the fuel maintained a large cost advantage over gasoline. The Environmental Protection Agency calls the
Civic GX the "cleanest internal combustion engine-powered vehicle ever
tested."
And they note natural
gas is more abundant in
Honda noted that
while the unit will cost $2,000, federal, state and local government rebates
might be available to buyers.
What hasn't been
estimated is the cost of installing the units. Fuelmaker
says installation costs will vary widely, depending on how close the unit is to
one's natural gas line.
Natural gas powered vehicles or NGVs have been around since the 1930, but are being used
more lately as an alternative fuel as people are looking for solutions to
current pollution problems. One of the key benefits behind NGV’s
are that they are very low in ozone reactivity. Almost
any vehicle that runs on gasoline can run on natural gas. NGV’s range from passenger cars and
trucks to buses.
There are to forms of natural gas
that are used as a fuel for vehicles, the first is compressed natural gas,
known as CNG, that is compressed to 2,400-3,600 pounds per sq. inch and stored
in heavy steel constructed cylinders. The second form is liquefied natural gas,
known as LNG, which is gas that is cooled to –259 degrees F. Natural gas comes
from underground reserves made up mostly of methane.
Pro’s
vs. Con’s
Pro’s
Low tailpipe emissions of ozone-forming
hydrocarbons, toxins, and carbon monoxide
Can be made from a variety of feedstocks, including renewables
Closed fuel system, doesn’t allow for
evaporation
Lower fuel cost
Con’s
High vehicle cost or conversion cost
Low vehicle range (approx. 60% of that of a
gasoline vehicle)
Availability of refilling stations
Availability of trained technicians to
perform maintenance
Cost
It cost between $2,700 and $5,000
to convert a vehicle to natural gas, but from the manufacture NGV cost $3,500
to $7,500 more than a conventional gasoline vehicle. The additional costs can
be partially subsidized by the government who is providing incentives to
promote cleaner burning fuels. Another incentive is the low cost of natural
gas.
Filling
Methods
There are two types of filling
methods used: a slow one that takes 6-8 hours and a fast method that takes 6-9
minutes. The slow method can been done overnight by
hooking up to a household natural gas system. The fast method requires the use
of compressing the gas into storage tanks before being pumped into your car.
Natural
Gas vs. Gasoline in Vehicles
Tests compared the two vehicles in
many areas to show that NGV’s are very similar to
gasoline powered vehicles.
Lotus and Brazilian car manufacturer Obvio have a number of versions of cute VW Beetle-esque cars that run on any combination of ethanol, petrol or natural gas. $14,000 new.
Within the next ten years the
size, shape, efficiency, fuel and numbers of private automobiles is going to
undergo a radical change. The nine million barrells
of gasoline we currently use in the
The solution to this problem is
likely to be a much more diverse set of vehicles and modes of transportation
than we have become accustomed to in the last 100 years of the automobile age.
Despite their terribly low efficiency, the automobiles we now enjoy are
incredibly flexible machines that can take us comfortably and inexpensively
down the block or across the country in nearly all kinds of weather. In some
forms the personal car could not only carry us, and a goodly number of friends
or relatives, but also an incredible amount of stuff. As gasoline has nearly
always been cheap and plentiful few gave a second thought to using a 4000 pound
vehicle to transport a 150 pound person many miles to buy a pack of cigarettes
at who-cares-how-few miles per gallon.
Our options for personal
transport in the nearer-than-we-think future are going to be highly dependent
on the timing of a number of situations currently developing. For example, if
some man-made or natural catastrophe takes away a large portion of our gasoline
supply overnight, there would, by definition, be no choice than to cut way back
on driving, form car pools and use whatever public transit is available. While
it may be a shock to our sensibilities and accustomed lifestyles, loading four
to 15 people in a car, SUV or van can provide a lot of passenger-miles for a
fraction of the fuel we use today.
It would take a lot of
organization and an undreamed amount of inconvenience, but I suspect that
gasoline consumption in the
Other scenarios would have our
gasoline supply gradually slipping away over a period of years or simply
becoming too expensive to allow virtually unlimited use of cars as we do today.
If this is the way things turn out, then there will be a race for new power
sources and probably shapes for personal cars. For the foreseeable future, the
only alternative sources of power for private cars are electricity and
compressed natural gas.
There are other candidates to
power vehicles, such as hydrogen, compressed air and solar panels and there is
no reason why one or more of these might not become viable someday. However,
given the current technology, it is likely to be decades before they could come
into widespread use. Our remaining candidates require little in the way of
technological improvements.
Except for buses, natural gas
vehicles are virtually unknown in the
The main reason natural gas
hasn’t caught on in the U.S. is that it needs to be stored under pressure in
big bottles that take up a lot more space than gasoline for a given range. As
long as gasoline was cheap, few were willing to give up a 300+ mile range for
150 miles and trouble finding a place to refuel. Unless you were a really
dedicated tree-hugger who felt better driving a car with near zero emissions,
then you weren’t about to go to the expense or hassle of owning one.
So what are the prospects for a
massive switch to natural gas vehicles? Given the option of natural gas with a
few minor drawbacks, or walking, the answer to that is a no-brainer. Where do I
buy one? Actually, you can, for Honda recently started selling the natural gas
version of its Civic to the general public rather than just to fleets. Don’t
run out and order one, however, until you fully understand the limits on the
availability of natural gas and how you plan to use it.
As the price of imported
gasoline goes off the scale, there is no reason why American Industry can’t
start cranking out large quantities of natural gas powered cars, kits to
convert existing cars, and natural gas compressing pumps to create fuel either
at home or filling stations.
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