Shale gas is the extraction of gasoline/oil from shale - also called fracking. There's a song "What the frack is going on?" that can help to bring this to the world's attention, but we need more.

Shale gas produces double the emissions of normal oil extraction, and we should really be phasing oil out anyway. On the other hand, it apparently causes half the emissions of coal, and places like China are using more and more of this. So it's difficult. Can Avaaz research this and tell us more facts, so we can decide whether or not to lobby for shale gas extraction to cease? (not that anyone can do anything about China, unfortunately, but other parts of the world including USA are going ahead with this)

The ability to run a vehicle on penut oil, hempoil, sunflower oil and others has existed since the vehicle was invented by Henry ford, also built the first car made of hemp and ran on hemp oil. Our abilitiy to run cars on electricity has been around for more than half a century, or perhaps allways has been available dark forces got in the way hence fear and greed. Theres a book available about a couple who have been living off the grid for 15 years and wrote a book on how to convert your car to electric for as low as 300 dollars. I f we really were serious we would have strict and enforced laws that actually made a difference in the world then more people would prosper in the ways nature intended or god whatever word makes you feel safe. There is no reason why we all cant live with free electricity homegrown food abundance. We have so many cures for diseases but if revealed death ends up being the punishment for truth. The war in Iraq is a joke in the mind of an awakened being who understands that over 200,000 people die without reason of humane cause. The war is here in our hospitals, here in America where all the people seem to appear as if there in the lioght when so many are in there ego thinking how much money they can make experimenting on us humans as they "practice" there medicine on us to bank on our so called diseases we have, as the doctor who we may not even have the chance to meet before the operation goes out to have a smoke our health practitioner we call doctor not even qualified to study health or advise his clients what they can do to be healthier a form of malpractice from the first visit the majority of the time. As the medicine prescribed to you gives you symptoms you never wanted or wished for. Suppressing your ability to heal naturally, to feel; when feeling is your vehicle for manifestations, literally, if you cant be in touch; to touch within how can one move the energy in a loving manner? Emotion; energy in motion when we trap energy in our bodies we hinder our ability to be fluid beings, it back fires on us. The largest epidemic on the planet the suppression of the feminen energy within each and every one of us, the true marriage; free from seperatism . We have been numbed by the true drugs which should be illlegal, the ones given to us when were in our helpless vulnerable state of mind. We can all be driving an electric car when you subtract the greed and the politicts the solution is allready being used and is clearly within our reach. Were looking for solutions that already exist; when we surrender the falsified way of life which still feeds greed eventually well learn we cant solve problems with the problem itsself we cant mix oil with water just because we want to subtract some oil or some greed or improve a little; we need to cancel all that is not working not some of it. No one needs medication to dumben themselves if we get any dumber we are only going to sleep through the solutions that are in front of us; no this isnt going to happen in the convenient way we are used to its going to happen with the true strength and courage of taking responsibility of owning up to our emotions the feelings we dont want to feel the foundation we have been trying so hard to avoid our core healing, our unity, the coming together of the feminen and masculine energies within. That is the truth of one ness, wholeness, unity. we need to have the freedom to live off the land in our back yards live in communities where we can find what we need within walking distance or bikink distance;its possible, its allready happening. The poison feed off of the ego, and fear has influenced us to drive us away from our home our already natural state of availability, instead the weak forces have tried to over power the divine with religious beliefs to seperate the people and create the illussionary god derived and percieved through the perspective of the ego here on the material world all to provoke fear and our illussion of dependence on the religions for safety or faith, when we are all equal and dont need a building to be free or loving people, that contradicts the love of god; love is free and blind so what we see has nothing to do for reason to love has no box to choose ;for the circle of life is round;equal ,easy flowing ,no better than ;no lesser than ,a circle of life what goes around will come back around as we create our reality relative to an open heart and the karmic circle boomerang effect.this flow .

- and incentivise oil and coal mining companies to be a part of the solution? Its clear that the era of oil and coal based energy is nearing its end, with mining companies now facing ever stronger opposition to their ventures in ecologically sensitive areas. The amount of green house gases generated by dirty power is immense - isn’t it time energy companies begin thinking ahead to a future without oil and start investing n the development of clean, renewable energy? Here in SA we are still investing billions in the development of new coal fired power stations – this makes no environmental or economic sense whatsoever. Ilka W - South Africa