Cempaka Business and Economy: Subsidies hit biofuels development

"A Summary" – Apr 2, 2011 (Kryon channelled by Lee Carroll) (Subjects: Religion, Shift of Human Consciousness, 2012, Intelligent/Benevolent Design, EU, South America, 5 Currencies, Water Cycle (Heat up, Mini Ice Ace, Oceans, Fish, Earthquakes ..), Middle East, Internet, Israel, Dictators, Palestine, US, Japan (Quake/Tsunami Disasters , People, Society ...), Nuclear Power Revealed, Hydro Power, Geothermal Power, Moon, Financial Institutes (Recession, Realign integrity values ..) , China, North Korea, Global Unity,..... etc.) - (Text version)

"The Timing of the Great Shift" – Mar 21, 2009 (Kryon channelled by Lee Carroll) - (Text version)

“ … Here is another one. A change in what Human nature will allow for government. "Careful, Kryon, don't talk about politics. You'll get in trouble." I won't get in trouble. I'm going to tell you to watch for leadership that cares about you. "You mean politics is going to change?" It already has. It's beginning. Watch for it. You're going to see a total phase-out of old energy dictatorships eventually. The potential is that you're going to see that before 2013.
They're going to fall over, you know, because the energy of the population will not sustain an old energy leader ..."

"Update on Current Events" – Jul 23, 2011 (Kryon channelled by Lee Carroll) - (Subjects: The Humanization of God, Gaia, Shift of Human Consciousness, 2012, Benevolent Design, Financial Institutes (Recession, System to Change ...), Water Cycle (Heat up, Mini Ice Ace, Oceans, Fish, Earthquakes ..), Nuclear Power Revealed, Geothermal Power, Hydro Power, Drinking Water from Seawater, No need for Oil as Much, Middle East in Peace, Persia/Iran Uprising, Muhammad, Israel, DNA, Two Dictators to fall soon, Africa, China, (Old) Souls, Species to go, Whales to Humans, Global Unity,..... etc.)

"The Recalibration of Awareness – Apr 20/21, 2012 (Kryon channeled by Lee Carroll) (Subjects: Old Energy, Recalibration Lectures, God / Creator, Religions/Spiritual systems (Catholic Church, Priests/Nun’s, Worship, John Paul Pope, Women in the Church otherwise church will go, Current Pope won’t do it), Middle East, Jews, Governments will change (Internet, Media, Democracies, Dictators, North Korea, Nations voted at once), Integrity (Businesses, Tobacco Companies, Bankers/ Financial Institutes, Pharmaceutical company to collapse), Illuminati (Started in Greece, with Shipping, Financial markets, Stock markets, Pharmaceutical money (fund to build Africa, to develop)), Shift of Human Consciousness, (Old) Souls, Women, Masters to/already come back, Global Unity.... etc.) - (Text version)

“… The Shift in Human Nature

You're starting to see integrity change. Awareness recalibrates integrity, and the Human Being who would sit there and take advantage of another Human Being in an old energy would never do it in a new energy. The reason? It will become intuitive, so this is a shift in Human Nature as well, for in the past you have assumed that people take advantage of people first and integrity comes later. That's just ordinary Human nature.

In the past, Human nature expressed within governments worked like this: If you were stronger than the other one, you simply conquered them. If you were strong, it was an invitation to conquer. If you were weak, it was an invitation to be conquered. No one even thought about it. It was the way of things. The bigger you could have your armies, the better they would do when you sent them out to conquer. That's not how you think today. Did you notice?

Any country that thinks this way today will not survive, for humanity has discovered that the world goes far better by putting things together instead of tearing them apart. The new energy puts the weak and strong together in ways that make sense and that have integrity. Take a look at what happened to some of the businesses in this great land (USA). Up to 30 years ago, when you started realizing some of them didn't have integrity, you eliminated them. What happened to the tobacco companies when you realized they were knowingly addicting your children? Today, they still sell their products to less-aware countries, but that will also change.

What did you do a few years ago when you realized that your bankers were actually selling you homes that they knew you couldn't pay for later? They were walking away, smiling greedily, not thinking about the heartbreak that was to follow when a life's dream would be lost. Dear American, you are in a recession. However, this is like when you prune a tree and cut back the branches. When the tree grows back, you've got control and the branches will grow bigger and stronger than they were before, without the greed factor. Then, if you don't like the way it grows back, you'll prune it again! I tell you this because awareness is now in control of big money. It's right before your eyes, what you're doing. But fear often rules. …”

Tuesday, November 06, 2007

Subsidies hit biofuels development

Ika Krismantari, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta

Government fuel subsidies have hampered the development of the country's renewable energy sector, a minister said Monday.

Energy and Mineral Resources Minister Purnomo Yusgiantoro said at the 2007 World Renewable Energy Regional Congress and Exhibition that growth in Indonesia's renewable energy sector would remain slow as long as fuel subsidies existed.

He said subsidies on fossil-based fuels were hampering biofuel development, as the price of biofuel products was not competitive compared to the price of subsidized fuels.

For almost three decades, Indonesians have enjoyed heavy fuel subsidies from the government, with kerosene, gasoline and diesel sold for below market prices.

Purnomo said such fuel subsidies offered little incentive for people to start using biofuels.

He said the government was reviewing its fuel subsidies policy in light of this, and would gradually reduce the volume of its subsidized fuels.

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has promised not to increase fuel prices until the end of his current term in 2009.

However, the government has started reducing spending on fuel subsidies by reducing the volume of subsidized fuels available.

Next year's fuel subsidy budget will be Rp 46.7 trillion (US$4.9 billion), down significantly from this year's allocation of Rp 56.4 trillion.

In line with this reduction, the government launched a conversion program, in which people were encouraged to use liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) rather than kerosene.

As part of the conversion program, the government is expected to cut the volume of subsidized fuel to 8.6 million kiloliters (kl) next year from 9.9 million kl this year.

Meanwhile, representatives from the business sector have demanded the government promote renewable energy more heavily.

"What we want the government to do is establish a policy making biofuel usage mandatory. Therefore, the price of biofuel would not be such an issue," Micky Alban Hehuwat, chairman of the Indonesian Renewable Energy Society, told The Jakarta Post at the seminar.

Evita H. Legowo, the first secretary of the National Biofuel Development Committee, told the Post that the committee was conducting a study to determine how such a policy could be implemented in the country.

"The mandatory issue is indeed something that has been voiced by biofuel producers and we are now trying to answer their needs," Evita said, adding that the government had also provided financial incentives to the industry.

She said the government needed to boost biofuel usage in the country to reduce its dependence on fossil-based fuels, as the price of crude oil had been hovering above $90 per barrel in recent times.

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