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

Russia: An Economic Chill

 Apartment buildings on permafrost in Siberia

Photograph by Steve Raymer, National Geographic

Apartment buildings huddle on permafrost amid a huge natural gas field in Siberia, where Russia's subsidies drive both production and waste.

Subsidies cost Russia $39.3 billion in 2010, says IEA, but that understates the economic impact. Russia's spending to heat homes is double that of its Arctic neighbor, Canada, in terms of energy "intensity" (heat consumed per unit of GDP), even though Canada has colder average temperatures. Russia has more people living in colder regions, a relic of Soviet planning that forced large numbers of people into frigid frontiers that the government sought to industrialize, especially for extraction of natural resources.

The payoff of that investment is Russia's rank as the world's largest natural gas producer and exporter, but there has been a price.   Some 60 percent of the natural gas it produces is sold at cheap subsidized rates to Russian businesses and private consumers, and fires inefficient district heating systems. It's not uncommon for apartment dwellers in winter to open their windows to vent unwanted warm air. At least one quarter of the heat generated in these distribution systems is lost, and Russia's energy waste is reckoned to be equal to all the energy consumed in France.

Not only is Russia losing export revenue due to its subsidy system, but its Siberian fields are being depleted. The International Energy Agency now projects that both the United States and China will overtake Russia in natural gas production over the next 25 years. 

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