An action thriller by Jock Miller


Fossil fuel has an ageless affinity with dinosaurs. To create oil, dinosaurs died.


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The perfect energy storm is sweeping over the United States: Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant meltdown has paralyzed nuclear expansion globally, BP’s Gulf of Mexico oil spill has stalled deep water drilling, Arab oil countries are in turmoil causing doubt about access to future oil, the intensity of hurricanes hitting the Gulf’s oil rigs and refineries has intensified due to global warming, and the nation’s Strategic Oil Supply is riding on empty.

As the energy storm intensifies, the nation’s access to Arab oil, once supplying over sixty percent of our fossil fuel, is being threatened causing people to panic for lack of gas at the pumps, stranding cars across the country and inciting riots.

The U.S. Military is forced to cut back air, land, and sea operations sucking up 58% of every barrel of oil to protect the nation; U.S. commercial airlines are forced to limit flights for lack of jet fuel; and businesses are challenged to power up their factories, and offices as the U.S. Department of Energy desperately tries to provide a balance of electric power from the network of aged power plants and transmission lines that power up the nation.

The United States must find new sources of domestic fossil fuel urgently or face an energy crisis that will plunge the nation into a deep depression worse than 1929.

The energy storm is very real and happening this very moment. But, at the last moment of desperation, the United States discovers the world’s largest fossil fuel deposit found in a remote inaccessible mountain range within Alaska’s Noatak National Preserve surrounding six and a half million acres.

Preventing access to the oil is a colony of living fossil dinosaurs that will protect its territory to the death.

Nobody gets out alive; nobody can identify the predator--until Dr. Kimberly Fulton, Curator of Paleontology at New York’s Museum of Natural History, is flown into the inaccessible area by Scott Chandler, the Marine veteran helicopter pilot who’s the Park’s Manager of Wildlife. All hell breaks loose when Fulton’s teenage son and his girlfriend vanish into the Park.

Will the nation’s military be paralyzed for lack of mobility fuel, and will people across America run out of gas and be stranded, or will the U.S. Military succeed in penetrating this remote mountain range in northwestern Alaska to restore fossil fuel supplies in time to save the nation from the worst energy driven catastrophe in recorded history?

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Eleven Nations With Large Fossil-Fuel Subsidies

China: Coal-Fired Consumption

Photograph by Greg Girard, National Geographic
Day laborers pound coal in Shizuishan, China part of the sprawling fossil-fuel complex that powers the economy of the world's largest energy consumer.



Although China is adding solar and wind energy rapidly, renewables cannot keep pace with coal, which generates 80 percent of the nation's electricity. China, one of the few countries that subsidizes the black rock, consumes more coal than the United States, the European Union, and Japan combined.

Although the size of China's subsidies, $21.3 billion in 2010, ranks among the largest in the world, they are low compared to the size of the nation's economy and population, totaling about 0.4 percent of GDP and $16 per person.

Still, China is driving world demand for fossil fuel, especially oil, due to skyrocketing automobile ownership that will surpass the United States by 2030, when it is estimated China will have more than 390 million cars.

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The IEA calculates that a phase-out of fossil-fuel subsidies would trim global oil demand by 3.7 million barrels per day by 2020, and by 4.4 million barrels per day, or 4 percent, by 2035. "Higher prices (and expectations of such) contribute to greater conservation and the uptake of more efficient vehicles long after the phase-out of subsidies has been completed," IEA said.

Also, natural gas demand could be cut by nearly 10 percent, and coal demand by more than 5 percent by 2035, just by removing subsidies, IEA says. Energy-related carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions would fall 1.7 gigatons, about 5 percent, below the 36.1 gigatons now projected for 2020. That would be the equivalent of eliminating all of the CO2 emissions of Russia, and similar to the anticipated savings from all climate change policy plans now being weig


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