Anyone hip to the crisis of peak oil.
I want to keep my car-I do-
You can't just take it, it's my due;
Post peak-oil, it may run on new oil
refined from used cooking oil.
Hydrogen or maybe turnips,
these are the fuels we will worship
Corn-cob based Ethanol (tm) already's
in the pumps in many American cities.
But how will veggies supply enough?
It seems to me times a-gettin tough.
We'll turn the cornstalks we don't eat
into Ethanol (tm) & peel down the street.
but if all the land is used for corn
then many, hungry, will be forlorn.
In North America's midwest, corn shares
land with beets, soybeans, rye, wheat, tares.
i've heard it said that it causes dirty air,
200 more deaths a year to be fair.
All I've heard is: making Ethanol (tm)
is making midwestern farmers rich, all.
Rich they may be, but at what cost?
C2H5OH will not be enough so will all be lost?
They imagine cornstalk fuel's patriotic;
& that not making it is just idiotic.
They' could be wrong, 'they' often are,
but so what as long as we can keep the car!
Your car's yours to keep, run on corn/oil;
but running it may make your blood boil .
how about a solar car then?
get a tan and save the planet
Sun-tanning in solar cars sounds OK
or sun-belt states' long sunny day.
Ah yes; for those who live in shade
Off you go then, use any fuel you like.
If they disappoint you, switch to a bike.
now there's the answer, fair and square -
a Bike will always get you there!
There were bikes before automobiles;
& there still are, racking up miles
And long may bikes remain in vogue,
They don't use fuel that could be rogue.
You can fit a bike with an auxilliary motor
that runs on gas - to help you go further
And the man who pedals needs plenty of fuel,
though he probably could still pedal if living on gruel
Pedallers are among the environment's best friends;
bicycles might be where clean riding began & ends.
So here we are right back at the start,
when people were happy on bikes to dart.
Fuelled-vehicles replaced hay-fed horses.
An advance? Most think: of course it is.
but is it? really? in the end?
life so much simpler was, back then.
So some imagine, maybe it will be again,
but we distort what it was Way-back When
yes, life was hard, but not so much a race -
each person worked hard, each one knew their place.
Maybe in England, but not quite so in the States.
There's always been social turmoil in the States..
well here, it used to be more clear-cut,
you were either well off or more probably not!
England's small & old, America big & youngish;
given a choice, which one would you wish?
If I am honest, (which of course i will be),
America would see me in the "land of the free".
which feels anything but 'free' at the present
while fearers rave & make everyone resent.
but so what as long as we can keep the car!
Your car's yours to keep, run on corn/oil;
but running it may make your blood boil .
how about a solar car then?
get a tan and save the planet
Sun-tanning in solar cars sounds OK
or sun-belt states' long sunny day.
Ah yes; for those who live in shade
Wind powered cars will yet be made!
They'll run on alcohol-heated steam
They'll run on alcohol-heated steam
like Stanley Steamers did. Steam!
no no, it's hydrogen we want-
nice clean air, no pollutant!
Steam condenses into H20, alcohol
sublimes away; nothing's lost at all.
we need energies that are quite renewable-
& that's a question that's really chewable!
Sun, wind, & tide are cyclically renewed,
easily beating oil, coal, & of course, wood.
But how to make them work best for you
Is a poser indeed,for the great brains to chew.
& they're chewing away at it as I write this.
Solutions will soon trickle down (as always.)
Right, off we go, I'm in my car,
if i choose the right fuel I might go far.
no no, it's hydrogen we want-
nice clean air, no pollutant!
Steam condenses into H20, alcohol
sublimes away; nothing's lost at all.
we need energies that are quite renewable-
& that's a question that's really chewable!
Sun, wind, & tide are cyclically renewed,
easily beating oil, coal, & of course, wood.
But how to make them work best for you
Is a poser indeed,for the great brains to chew.
& they're chewing away at it as I write this.
Solutions will soon trickle down (as always.)
Right, off we go, I'm in my car,
if i choose the right fuel I might go far.
Off you go then, use any fuel you like.
If they disappoint you, switch to a bike.
now there's the answer, fair and square -
a Bike will always get you there!
There were bikes before automobiles;
& there still are, racking up miles
And long may bikes remain in vogue,
They don't use fuel that could be rogue.
You can fit a bike with an auxilliary motor
that runs on gas - to help you go further
And the man who pedals needs plenty of fuel,
though he probably could still pedal if living on gruel
Pedallers are among the environment's best friends;
bicycles might be where clean riding began & ends.
So here we are right back at the start,
when people were happy on bikes to dart.
Fuelled-vehicles replaced hay-fed horses.
An advance? Most think: of course it is.
but is it? really? in the end?
life so much simpler was, back then.
So some imagine, maybe it will be again,
but we distort what it was Way-back When
yes, life was hard, but not so much a race -
each person worked hard, each one knew their place.
Maybe in England, but not quite so in the States.
There's always been social turmoil in the States..
well here, it used to be more clear-cut,
you were either well off or more probably not!
England's small & old, America big & youngish;
given a choice, which one would you wish?
If I am honest, (which of course i will be),
America would see me in the "land of the free".
which feels anything but 'free' at the present
while fearers rave & make everyone resent.
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