With our very air supplies on this planet being threatened, we might even be relieved to know that fuel supplies for transportation are also in short supply. Fuel is conserved by use of solar and
nuclear energy and efficiency improvements of machinery. One of the largest energy wasting industries, transportation is economised by increasing rail and shipping use for freight. Some ships have been built with computerised mechanical sails  that give 10%-15% propulsion power savings, and automobile manufacturers have produced hybrid electric/ petrol powered vehicles to save fuel as well. These switch from electric to petrol power when voltage runs low, but regeneration can also be achieved by brake adaptation or even solar panels. Improvements in battery construction have enabled electric cars to travel 200 km at 120 km/h maximum ("History of the Electric Automobile").
 Interestingly though, the bicycle is the most energy efficient means of transport available, where as horse riding is hardly efficient at all considering plant energy production used for feed. Plants produce stored energy by the photosynthesis process, combining carbon dioxide and water using sunlight. Plant energy conversion is not very high at 1.6% maximum in Napier grass, and 1.2% in the more significant sugar cane crop. Forests and other field plants have much lower efficiencies at 0.4%. Even so, this energy can be utilised, and with the conversion of  sugar to ethyl alcohol at 60% efficiency, sugar cane can contribute significantly to fuel savings with the product of fuel additives. It can be calculated then, that 30% of Australia's crop area currently used for food would supply the entire energy consumption requirements of the nation, an area totaling 64,200 square kilometers.
Solar power can be utilised in direct water heating energy savings or, with  large enough solar collector mirror area, it can be concentrated to produce steam for generator drive. This is disadvantaged by cloud cover in areas of varying weather conditions, and latitude will determine how much sunlight can reach the part of the world this equipment is located in. Electric power can be more simply drawn from solar energy by use of dissimilar metal heating in solar cells, at some expense. Solar powered electricity requires remote arid areas, however, and not many townships suit the conditions required for this method, but it is used for irrigation pump power in many parts of Australia. On a clear day in these Australian settings, 400 Watts per square meter would be received.  A solar pond uses water depth temperature differences between fresh and saline layers to heat and condense a turbine driving fluid, a specialised source of solar power (" Thermodynamics and Fluid Dynamics"  by Roger Kinsky).
 Other power sources available for city power grid supply, or the option of electric vehicle battery recharging, are hydro-electric dams, wind farms, geothermal bores, and nuclear reactors. The most efficient is hydro-electric generation at 90%, although dams are often quite remote as well in mountainous areas. Tidal and wave motion can be used similarly to generate electricity, but often is also only efficient in remote locations. Geothermal energy is tapped by boring to underground heat sinks caused by seismic or radioactive effects. As Uranium is a radioactive fuel, it can be used to generate electricity in reinforced fission reactors similarly, and can be used in breeder reactors to produce plutonium fuel at the same time. Well established in the United States, neuclear reactors have on the other hand been known to explode in Russia, and only small scale medical radiology reactors are used in Australia. It does appear to be more environmentally friendly to avoid mass destruction and nationwide nuclear fall-out pollution!

Now when the United States is reported to be building oil industries in the Middle East,  one has to question why they are really at war with Iraq. When General Powell, as reported by the Mike Morris and "Rumsfield's War" documentaries, fabricates enemy weaponry reports for the U.N., we are then sure of the Bush administration's underlying interest in the oil rich Middle East.  Well the movie "Airforce One" put a fantastic angle on the U.S. President, hillarious to see him dangling helplessly from an aeroplane ! Some good ethical stands were made by him too though, but  the hijackers also had a point to make I think, because even the recent documentary on the " Cutting Edge" called " Rumsfield's War" showed flaws in the Iraqi  civilian losses of the war. The doco gave a more official view than Mike Morris did, but still showed it up to be a  set up of the U.S.
government. Rumsfield was only trying to limit the number of troop losses by promoting hi-tech weapon use, but it turned out they hadn't really planned for Iraqi occupation well enough, other army officers having warned that  the large population of 200 million  was a bigger task to tackle than the Iraqi standing army.
The war fields become really rum when sects start prophecying against the United States! The Mormons, as the religion of the United States, prophecy peace and prosperity, and that even the
Red Indians descended from the Jews which the United States ultimately support. A book called "Survivors"  takes this concept further however, and states that prophecies in Jerimiah and Daniel point to the United States "Loosing its feathers"  so to  speak, due to an attack on Israel it is so supportive of. However, I am skeptical of that being fulfilled in a nuclear strike by Russia with prophecies so devoid of technology (except when describing God's movements in a strikingly UFO like phenominon in Ezekiel). I think back to the first proponents of modern technology when Michael Angelo drew up plans for all kinds of equipment, long before Isaac Newton's physics discoveries, including a helicopter! The story of a man at this renaisceance period who tried to fly, with crafted bird wings, describes how he had used wax to affix feathers to these wings that strapped onto his arms.  This was a great success, and the man soared high into the sky, but up in the clear air the sun's rays became so hot, that they melted the wax and the feathers all fell off! Now let me draw a parallel between this story and my current topic, oil, because wax in fact is derived from oil itself. Now if the oil reserves of the world are being depleted at such a phenominal rate by jet planes
 and automobiles, and it is predicted to run out mid-way through this century at any rate, would not the United States then loose its air-superiority?!
 H.L. Wilmington agrees that the Revelation is describing an end time capital of evil in his book, " The King is Coming," pg 105. However, his siting of Babylon as being rebuilt in its original location appears to be outweighed by the fulfilments of prophecy listed by Josh McDowell, (in "Evidence that Demands a Verdict," pg.307.) These include the fact that Ancient Babylon has become a quagmire where hardly a shrub can grow, inhabited only by wild animals as added reason to not even shepherd flocks there! Peter Stoner points out that while some bricks and building materials have been taken from the ruins in contradiction to prophecy, none of the great imported stones used to build the main establishments of the city can be removed because the city has sunk below the water table after centuries of neglect! He adds that most ancient cities, like Queen Esther's dwelling place of Susa, are on tourist routes, but Babylon is not.
In fulfillment of the Prophecy in the Revelation to John in chapter 17, that "Mystery Babylon"
 will be destroyed by the Anti-Christ, it appears there actually will be something like a nuclear strike. It is specified as a capital of world trade like New York is today, and New York apparently is the only place on earth that has a precinct titled "Babylon!"  However, New York doesn't strike me as a particularly religious place, is predominantly white in population, and is built on only one river island. The description of "Mystery Babylon" in the Revelation seems to me to fit Sydney more adequately, with the many bays and harbour inlets, boasts of multi-culturalness, and every religious or cultic establishment you can think of! This includes the biggest Muslim Mosque I have seen in all my travels from Jakarta to Bombay! 
 Now I was propositioned with the stakes of living in China when I was at Port Stephens, and contrasted with the apparent freedom
I have in Australia. However, I stated that I felt almost as endangered as a Christian in Australia as I would in China! I was given supposed re-assurance that I was not likely to be shot for my faith in Australia like I would be in China, but  this was from people whose theology does not allow for a fate worse than death! So it isn't any wonder they are smug in their situation, which seems to take comfort in airforce jets keeping vigil in the skies above Port Stephens. What they fail to see is that the temptations and seductions of  Australian society and TV is more dangerous to their faith than anyone with a gun! A bullet in the head is the most painless way to die, but to be mentally harrassed by a perverted civilisation for the greater part of your life, is far more soul destroying!
This is without even mentioning suspected persecutions due to the number of occurrences of  debauchery , violence and even demonisation being  publicly marketted.  Now when the News media and government suddenly starts to put a glaze over their public profile by saying that crime is ceasing,  it isn't any wonder when they themselves are the biggest crooks in the country! The government promotes genocidal Mardi Gras and pornography, it has the power  to stop the poignantly terrorising product  releases of Virtual Satanic Carnage,  but will it? Is it that they are behind this moral degredation of society because they are covering up their own atrocities?  The majority wins in this world, but  if they don't consider the truth of Jesus Christ, who is from another world, they will soon be facing the higher powers of God Almighty, long before Jesus Christ returns, because God has judged such governments throughout history! It won't matter what the ellection poles say, they will be facing the angel of death! Now where is the real Synagogue of Satan, if not in the 'ten horned'  Sydney Operah House?!
AHC!