Wal-Mart & Chevron Making Moves - Sort of

Wal-Mart Deploys Solar, Wind, Sustainable Design

http://www.renewableenergyaccess.com/rea/news/story;jsessionid=asY8VUO12L2_?id=34647

What’s Interesting about this article is that Wal-Mart, the poster child for over consumption is engaged in renewable energy to maintain it’s ability to provide consumers with aisles of garbage.
Out of the three items I purchased from Wal-Mart two of them died – a wall clock and a garlic press. The wall clock, innocently hanging over the couch, warped, almost melted from moisture or heat (I still have no idea how it happened), and the garlic press exploded because the clove of garlic I was squashing was too tough. Anyway I did purchase a 31” screen TV from them in 1999. OK, flog me now! I haven't purchased anything since, and the TV has lasted many a Laker game.

Wal-Mart should almost be commended for their new program. It’s impressive actually. But Wal-Mart taking in renewable energy to drive the engine of consumption is like Michael Jackson becoming a child psychologist.

What do you think?

ALSO!

Chevron Recognizes Energy Depletion
http://www.willyoujoinus.com/discussion/

In one giant ad that appeared Tuesday in The Wall Street Journal, Chevron states: "It took us 125 years to use the first trillion barrels of oil. We'll use the next trillion in 30."

That's a profound statement coming from a major oil company!

The end of oil is just 30 years away? How does an industrialized world function without oil? Unless a viable alternative is conceived, it doesn't. That's the point Chevron and websites like this are trying to make. In that same ad, Chevron Chairman David J. O'Reilly says the era of easy oil is over and that political, economic and physical barriers are preventing the exploitation of newfound supplies.

Some day the world will run out of oil. No one knows for sure when that day will come. But the fact that Chevron, the nation's second-largest oil company, is using this kind of language in a global campaign indicates that the day may come sooner rather than later.

However, after we hit a supply peak in oil, we will begin to see higher prices at the pump and government incentives for commuters to conserve fuel use. By this time we will realize that the official age of peak oil is upon us. I predict by 2009.

As O'Reilly puts it, "What we all do next will determine how well we meet the energy needs of the entire world in this century and beyond."

What do you think?