Nazi-era Technology Embraced by Republicans in U.S. Congress in the Name of National Energy “Security”
Twentieth-century American military history has two iconic dates - 7 December 1941, the attack on Pearl Harbor and 6 June 1944, D-Day, when the liberation of Europe began.
The subsequent vicious Allied fight from Normandy to Germany saw the Nazis largely fueled by a technology that is now being promoted by the Republican Congressional leadership, in collusion with its munificent fiscal campaign energy supporters, as a way to lessen U.S. dependence on energy imports.
At issue is the Fishcher-Tropsch coal liquefaction process, developed by energy-poor Germany in the 1920s and expanded by the Nazi regime. Bent on dominating Europe, Hitler’s war machine suffered from increasing fuel shortages, first in September 1939 when Britain’s Royal Navy clamped a naval blockade on the Baltic, exacerbated in June1941 when the invasion of the USSR ended Soviet energy imports, leaving Germany largely dependent on Romania’s Ploesti oilfields after the failure of Army Group south to capture the Caucasus and Azerbaijan’s rich Caspian resources. FT production became increasingly critical to fueling Hitler’s war machine from then onwards, given Germany’s immense coal reserves.
Full article at: Coal liquefacation
......and we used V2 technology with the personal assistance of Wernher von Braun to win the space race against the Russians. That didn't make us nazis or soviets, it made us smart for using technology that works. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wernher_von_Braun
Watching Glenn Beck much?
I'm not sure that this particular article could have been written with any heavier slant than it was... besmirches any effort to reduce US dependency on foreign oil. Rather yet it advocates continuing the status quo until a technology to be determined is developed, perfected, available on a mass scale, infrastructure built to support and is cost competitive with fossil fuels...
Hippies should stick to weed... leave financial matters to those who can see beyond their political agenda's. Any chance to get "republican's" and "Nazi's" in the same article though, right?...
Ironic isn't it that many whom follow this author's particular ideology are the pawns of pseudo-capitalists leveraging politics, in this case global warming, to artificially inflate demand for technology that doesn't exist, creating a market, and are making a killing while minions such as this author unwittingly promote an agenda the opportunists are more than willing to capitalize on.
Artificial demand through fear mongering, political persuasions, and pandering to a pathetic group of social-enlightened/conscious types. A mockery of all things free-market...
Well said.
Regards
Wow, if it wasn't for the A-bombs, the Japanese would have gotten away scot-free from all of the atrocities they committed. I've always applauded the Russians for how they dismantled East Germany when they finally got there - payback should be a bitch. Of course, anyone who ever surrenders to the US gets food, clothes and a warm bath lest someone protests back at home...
See: WWII, impact of harsh treatment of Germany after WWI.
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