I have been asking myself, over the past three months, what lies for the Nigerian future when I realized how determined America is, to transform Green Energy to replace Fossil fuel. I was put on alert when I read Google’s ‘Clean Energy plan 2030’ with a goal of cutting oil use for cars in US by 44%. Eric Schmidt, the CEO Google, is now focused on this plan as one of his primary objectives. This driving force on Green Energy plan from Google and other companies emerged since Obama announced his Energy plan during his campaign period.
Obama is in the White House today and so is his Energy plan. To let the world know he means business, Obama has directed his administration to get moving on new fuel-efficiency guidelines for the auto industry in time to cover 2011 model-year cars in just less than one week in office.
With this enthusiastic plan on stage it is apparent that the US will soon not be heavily dependent on foreign fuel, and that should be a serious concern to Nigeria with almost 65% of its crude oil export (the only economy it depends upon) going to the US. Jerry Uwah of Leadership has made a very good reflection on the situation yesterday issuing a big caution to the Nigerians.
Last week the CBN governor, Chukwuma Soludo, hinted the Banking and Currency Committee of the House of Representatives on what may befall Nigeria. Is this a good sign that the Nigerian government is conscious and focused enough to save the country from the post 2025 crisis we are foreseeing? Will the government start looking into other sectors such as Agriculture and Information Technology as a major source of income? In trying to be optimistic I hope to see us move towards that direction, but in reality what we should expect is the so-called opportunist government officials fattening their accounts in the hope of saving themselves and their families when the crisis begin.
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