June 9, 2008 - Monday
Scientist Robert Zubrin to speak on how the future of flex-fuels can end OPEC's control of energy prices
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Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez recently joined Iranian president Mahmoud Amadinejad in threatening to raise oil prices to $200 per barrel. The threat should be taken quite seriously. With no practical transportation fuel alternative to petroleum available to the world market, the OPEC oil cartel has already been successful in raising prices an order of magnitude since 1999, with a 50 percent increase in 2007 alone.
In his book Energy Victory: Winning the War on Terror by Breaking Free of Oil, world-renowned engineer and best-selling author Dr. Robert Zubrin lays out a bold plan for breaking the economic stranglehold that the OPEC oil cartel has on the US as well as the rest of the world. Zubrin presents persuasive evidence that our decades-long relationship with OPEC has resulted in the looting of our economy, the corruption of our political system, and now the funding and protection of terrorist regimes and movements that are committed to our destruction.
Join us as we take a fascinating look at the world of energy and some of the options that we should be considering. Please mark your calendars to be part of this historic discission.
EVENT: Night with a Futurist
DATE: June 9, 2008 - Monday
TIME: 6:30pm-9:00pm
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TOPIC: Scientist Robert Zubrin to speak on how the future of flex-fuels can end OPEC's control of energy prices
SPEAKER: Robert Zubrin
SPEAKER: Robert Zubrin
President of Pioneer Astronautics, President of the Mars Society, and author of the book Energy Victory
Dr. Robert Zubrin is an internationally renowned astronautical engineer and the acclaimed author of The Case for Mars, which Arthur C. Clarke called "the most comprehensive account of the past and future of Mars that I have ever encountered." NASA recently adapted Zubrin's humans-to-Mars mission plan.
But while many people recognize Robert Zubrin for his contributions to space programs, his recent book "Energy Victory: Winning the War on Terror by Breaking Free of Oil," Zubrin lays out a bold plan for breaking the economic stranglehold that the OPEC oil cartel has on our country and the world.
He is the author of the critically acclaimed nonfiction books The Case for Mars, Entering Space, Mars on Earth; the science fiction novels The Holy Land and First Landing; and articles in Scientific American, The New Atlantis, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Mechanical Engineering, and The American Enterprise. He has appeared on major television shows including CNN, CSPAN, BBC, Discovery Channel, NBC, ABC, and NPR.
A former senior engineer at Lockheed Martin, Zubrin is the president of the Mars Society, and the founder of Pioneer Astronautics, a successful space exploration and development firm.
