2017 Recap

2017 was a good year for solar in the USA but a very good year for me.  I sold most of my solar company in 2017, which helped to generate a profit in the 8-figure range.  Nearly all of that profit was used to pay down debt at my solar company, causing total debt & liabilities to drop from over $100 Million in 2015 to about $3 Million in late 2017.  That's a huge weight off the shoulders of me and my partners in the company, obviously.

Other key milestones and updates:

1. We completed another utility-scale solar project, this one in Wisconsin on a landfill in Eau Claire, WI, which happens to be the largest community solar project in the state at 1 million watts (1 megawatt).  It produces enough energy for the communities in the area to power the equivalent usage of about 300 homes.  Many thanks to Wunder Capital, Industry Capital, The RAQ, B&B Electric, the City of Eau Claire, XCEL Energy, Sustainable Solar Services Corp, and the many other parties who helped make this project a reality despite numerous challenges.  The project uses 40-kilowatt high-efficiency string inverters from Growatt, solar panels from South Korea's Hansol, racking from Michigan's The RAQ, and monitoring systems from Also Energy.  The project took approximately 2 and 1/2 years to develop to "shovel-ready" status, and yet only about 3 months to construct once all permits and electrical grid interconnection studies were complete.  See YouTube below (be sure to like & subscribe to my @SolarNinjaTroy YouTube channel!).  https://youtu.be/GS3kKdfz4W0 
2. Former employees.  After selling the 3 primary divisions of Pristine Sun LLC to buyers, each of the buyers has taken the "shovel-ready" or nearly fully developed projects and finished construction.  This has caused hundreds of millions of dollars of Pristine Sun-developed projects to become operational, representing enough clean electricity to power tens of thousands of homes.  All former Pristine Sun employees should feel very proud of their contributions to these projects that caused this all to be possible! Most of the Pristine Sun employees went to work for the buyers of our projects, and most of the rest ended up working at other solar companies.  Employee staff obligations were paid in full as part of those sales, although some portions of outstanding employee obligations of managers and executives (excluding any unsupported claims by disgruntled former employees who were laid off prior to the sale(s) closings) are to be paid on an "earn-out" basis by the buyers, Pristine Sun's largest shareholder (that's not me; I'm the 2nd biggest shareholder), and/or the last remaining corporate lender of Pristine Sun, upon achievement of certain milestones.  Executive compensation payments that may be due (upon achievement of certain milestones) will be paid last, after any other milestone-based payments or other obligations are paid 100% to all non-executives.  Many of those milestones were achieved in 2017, although some are expected to be achieved in 2018.  My substantial personal earn-out, including bonuses and unpaid wages, and distributions of any profits as the founder and 2nd largest shareholder of Pristine Sun, will be paid out over about 5 years on a milestone basis, but only AFTER all other non-executive employee obligations are satisfied first (again, excluding any unsupported claims by disgruntled former employees).
3. Floating Solar.  In 2017, the United States Patent and Trademark Office awarded patent pending status to 11 patents on floating solar technology.  I am a co-inventor, along with our senior engineer Kenny Forrest, on the patents.  See www.FloatoRack.com.  .The potential for placing solar on bodies of water is enormous.  Benefits include: reduces water losses to evaporation by up to 80%, reduces algae growth (which clogs filters and pumps in lakes and ponds) by a similar percentage, keeps the panels clean (due to daily rinsing via sprinklers, using the water underneath) which avoids the "soiling losses" of up to 40% endured by solar projects in areas with air pollution and/or dry, dusty climates, and keeps the panels cooler (due to the lower temperature of the water) which makes them up to 5% more efficient (solar panels are semi-conductors and therefore lose efficiency when they get hot).  We are developing numerous floating solar projects in various regions, on wastewater treatment ponds, drinking water reservoirs (where recreation is limited or forbidden altogether), and even ocean waters.
4. World-changing technology.  Also in 2017, several additional patents were granted patent pending status by the U.S. P.T.O., and I am the sole inventor of these particular patents.  These are for technologies for a company that started developing a world-changing technology (also in the energy and infrastructure sector) in 2013.  Equipment was ordered in late 2017 to build the first prototype at a secret location in the Silicon Valley San Francisco Bay Area.  Stay tuned for more information on this company and its products, as we hope to come out of "stealth" mode in mid-2018.
5. Additional solar projects.  In 2017, I partnered with Industry Capital where I am an Operating Principal (and a minority owner of the solar fund, Cratus Energy).  We began investing significant capital into developing floating solar projects in Sonoma County and San Diego County, California, as well as additional projects in Wisconsin, North Carolina, South Carolina and a few other areas.  The pipeline of solar projects available to develop within this partnership exceeds 7,000 megawatts (MW), which if they were all built would be about $10 Billion of assets.  Not all of them will be developed or built, due to some that will encounter fatal flaws with permitting, grid interconnection, or the availability of project finance at a reasonable cost of capital.  However, over the next five years, the partnership expects to build at least $2 Billion worth of clean solar energy power plants in dozens of communities across America.

Major Challenges Overcome in 2015-2016 as part of the "Solar Coaster"

This post describes one of the most difficult experiences I have endured in my solar career...on par with getting death threats about 20 years ago while doing wind energy development in Kansas.  It's painful, so grab a cup of coffee or tea and read on!

In late 2014, after two consecutive years of multi-million dollar profits and solid growth, Pristine Sun LLC lost a major incoming investment from a large U.S.-based energy company due to crashing oil prices. As a result, our corporate lender (who had lent us a peak amount of about $22 Million to support our growth of 400% per year in 2013 & 2014) demanded that we find an equity investor to counterbalance their loans.  Prior the then, the company had grown with about $500,000 of equity invested by the founders (mostly me) and a $10 Million investment from Capital Dynamics in 2011.  Due to strong profits, the CapDyn investment was repaid in full (with their 25% return) in 2013 & 2014, buying back the 40% share they had in Pristine Sun.  The company "boot-strapped" its way to further growth in 2015 along with loans from the corporate lender based on about $80 Million of assets we had on the balance sheet by 2014.

Due to the oil price crash and the unexpected and spectacular implosion of the largest solar energy developer in the country (SunEdison), our CFO and executive team (me + five other C-level executives) struggled to find any investors for the company.  For some reason, investors felt like low oil prices were bad for the solar industry.  This is weird since we don't use oil to produce electricity in this country; it's a transportation fuel, not a power generating fuel like natural gas, coal or uranium.  Nevertheless, all the 175 potential investors we spoke to, including those courted by an investment banking firm hired by our CFO, said no thanks the timing isn't right.  But nearly all of them said they would buy our projects from us at a steep discount.  That was not a sustainable business model since selling projects that were under development (but not yet in construction) at a big discount would be a short-term one-time cash infusion and then we'd have little left for our terrific employees to work on.  That was a recipe for unwinding the company and laying off most (or all) of our staff.  Meanwhile, our lender was threatening foreclosure if we didn't do something, and quickly.  Our projects were at risk of having their contracts with customers (electric utilities) canceled due to non-payment of security deposits and lack of construction progress.  Those projects were worth tens of millions of dollars once they became operational, so losing the contracts (which would kill the projects) would have been devastating.  Our options were limited, and time was running out.

So in the summer of 2015, we signed what we thought was a very exciting Joint Venture with a Chinese-based publicly traded but financially awkward solar panel manufacturer, Renesola (NYSE: SOL).  This is public information, and has been disclosed in the SOL public filings. Nothing noted here is non-public information.  The announced JV called for 300 MW of solar projects (about 5% of the Pristine Sun "pipeline" of projects in development at the time) to be developed and built by Pristine Sun and sold to the JV.  The value (at that time) of typical solar projects was about $2 Million per MW, so the total JV represented up to about $600 Million worth of future revenue to Pristine Sun.  And, a significant infusion of cash would come at the time of the signing of the JV.  We were cut off by our corporate lender and had no idea how to meet payroll for our 78 employees.  So we were effectively left with no choice but to sign the JV agreement after our law firm had won a few hard-fought concessions from Renesola's counsel. It was not a fair agreement yet, but we really had no choice; we were out of time.  We had to save our projects, and pay our team.  So we signed, got the money at closing, and saved our projects by paying security deposits to the utilities and starting construction.  The JV agreement called for significant additional capital payments to us over the next several weeks and months, which we were counting on to pay our suppliers for solar panels and other equipment and pay our sub-contractors.

You know what happens next.  We never got any more money from Renesola pursuant to the JV agreement, so both parties in the JV sued each other (the court case is public if you care to read it here). There are 3 sides to every story, but suffice it to say that our team was extremely unhappy with Renesola.  We were being starved for cash, right at the time when we needed it to pay our people and our vendors and suppliers.  It got so bad that we had to begin laying off employees in late 2015 and we sold all of our company trucks and construction equipment, along with selling the constructed projects to other buyers (not Renesola).  We entered a period of very painful protracted litigation.  Our biggest investor cut us off, our corporate lender had already cut us off and would not allow any other loans to come in, and the litigation with Renesola tied up our projects making them difficult to sell without affecting the active litigation.  It was a very trying time for the five of us who were the executives of the company, as we struggled and tried everything we could think of to dig out of the hole.  Finally, after letting the public reporting periods pass for public companies (where Renesola had to disclose the dispute with Pristine Sun), we agreed to mediation.  I cannot discuss the terms of the settlement reached in Mediation in the spring of 2016 (and finalized that summer), but I can say it was very favorable to Pristine Sun and has caused our senior lender to be mostly paid off over a period of time.  The settlement, along with the sale of several other divisions of the company, paid down about $100 Million of debt and other liabilities and caused the company to earn record profits in 2016 and 2017.

As a result of paying down so much debt and earning the record profits, we attracted some large institutional, US-based equity investors who have partnered with Pristine Sun to resume growth and development.  As the 2nd largest shareholder, this has been painful for me too but the future looks very bright: we held onto about 85% of our massive pipeline of solar projects.  This pipeline could be worth $10 Billion someday if we built all of the projects.  We won't: some will encounter fatal flaws in permitting our grid interconnection challenges.  But some portion of the projects will be developed and built, and I stand to gain a lot from helping to make that happen.  However, my role now is a Board director and investor, rather than a full-time employee (my choice).  This gives me more time to spend with my family and train as a 50-year-old (at the time of writing) ninja warrior.

Pristine Sun LLC came out of this dark chapter in the "Solar Coaster" a leaner, meaner company with almost no debt, a small but capable team, and finally a huge upside potential to monetize one of the largest solar project development pipelines in the country.  Wish us luck!

@SolarNinjaTroy at The Edge Training Center MI 2017 10

2016 Recap

2016 was a record-setting year for solar in the USA.  Growth nearly doubled over 2015 (95% growth Y/Y).  My solar journey was also advanced significantly.  After a 12-month litigation battle with Rensola (NYSE: SOL) as a result of the failed $600 Million Joint Venture that was announced in 2015, a resolution was reached in Mediation in summer of 2016.  While I cannot disclose any details that are not public (the aforementioned information is public), suffice it to say that the outcome was positive for Pristine Sun.  This closes out the worst chapter in Pristine Sun's history by separating from a partner that in retrospect I never should have agreed to do business with.  Another lesson learned!

So 2016 was a very difficult year, but also a year of profit (over $10 Million in profit) for Pristine Sun, reduction of about $24 Million of debt, and astonishing revenue growth of 654% over 2015.  Although to be fair, 2015 was a down year due to the litigation with Renesola's failure to be a good JV partner (my opinion).   2016 revenue was up a slightly more modest 187% over 2014 revenue, to keep things in perspective.  All of the profit earned in 2016 went to pay down debt, as you can imagine.

2016 was also the year of patent applications:

1. FloatoRack Corporation was launched and we filed 5 provisional patent applications for our innovative floating solar system.  Solar on water is more efficient because the solar panels stay cooler and cleaner, and it reduces evaporation & algae growth.  
2. Red Gopher Cooperative Corporation was launched, with 4 provisional patent applications filed the world-changing high temperature boring / tunneling machine that can tunnel 10-20 times faster at 80% lower cost than conventional tunneling machines.  Imagine tunnels for Elon Musk's exciting Hyperloop concept, trains, cars, underground transmission lines (to move huge quantities of wind & solar energy from the Great Plains and desert southwest to cities) and new pipelines to move water, hydrogen and even natural gas (or Hythane, a blend of hydrogen and natural gas / methane).  For the first time, a national Super Grid is possible that will undercut the electric costs of coal, oil, natural gas and nuclear.  Did you know that wind farms and solar farms can produce electricity profitably at 2 cents and 3 cents per kilowatt-hour?  Old existing coal & gas plants cannot compete long-term with that price point, so with a clean energy SuperGrid (aka The Freedom Plan as I wrote about in my 2005 book The Clean Power Revolution) we could dramatically accelerate the conversion of America to 100% clean renewable energy.  And, Hyperloop tunnels should be owned by the people and leased to one or more of the various Hyperloop operators in my opinion.  That's why Red Gopher is set up with not-for-profit cooperatives to own each regional system of tunnels so users own it and share pro rata in any "profits" that are all distributed back to members of the coop. Stay tuned for more exciting news about Red Gopher.

Finally, 2016 was the year that we focused on "sharpening the axe" as George Washington famously said.  We greatly improved the performance of our 15 utility-scale solar power plants owned by a Pristine Sun subsidiary (see images below) and got nearly all of them to over 100% of expected output.  The subsidiary that owns these projects is likely to be sold in 2017 to generate even more revenue.  This sets us up to develop and build new projects in 2017 once Pristine Sun is rebooted and recapitalized with a reliable new equity partner.

Gratitude for being awarded recognition on Axial's Growth 100

This week I learned that I received recognition as one of the most interesting CEOs on Axial's Growth 100 list.  Axial is a New York City-based organization that provides services, including debt and equity financing introductions, catered to the middle market (mid-sized companies).  My company, Pristine Sun, was interviewed for a nomination and it turns out we made the final cut.  We're recognized for Innovation (fitting, being a San Francisco / Silicon Valley based company I suppose).  Have a look at the profile here: http://madeinthemiddle.axial.net/troy-helming/?c=r

A podcast of an interview with me and Peter Lehrer (Axial Founder & CEO) was also recorded by Axial and should be published soon.

I want to take this opportunity to give credit where it's due: the amazing team at Pristine Sun.  Without all of you, there would be no Pristine Sun and definitely no award!  Thanks to you all, and to the other Axial members who voted for Pristine Sun.  Thanks again!

Solar Tax credit extension: it's only fair

To those who abhor subsidies for solar or wind...surprise: I agree!  However, the current playing field is not level.  Oil & gas, nuclear (especially nuclear - huge direct & indirect costs to our government), coal and other forms of energy get subsidies too (including biomass, hydroelectric, geothermal and even energy efficiency).  So why would you want to pick winners & losers by removing subsidies for solar but retaining even larger subsidies for fossil fuels?

So until Congress gets their heads out of the Saudi Arabian sand and creates a real, thoughtful energy policy, it would be really unfair (and unwise) to remove "subsidies" for solar (Note: "subsidies" for solar are really just tax benefits and not any cash from the government).

All forms of energy receive incentives.  Some are direct cash from the government (like cash to the Black Lung liabilities under the 1969 Coal Mine Safety Act [see here] and related costs for coal, and cash for nuclear waste disposal), but most are indirect (like the massive nuclear insurance guarantees and the highly lucrative oil & gas depletion credits [which allow the driller to write off more than the capital cost of the drilling operation; see here] and related tax benefits).  I say, remove all forms of incentives for energy to level the playing field.

On that field, I know solar & wind will win - and win big - over any form of energy that requires mining or drilling to replenish the fuel.  When the sun & wind are free, and the operating costs are very low due to no fuel costs and related supply chain (think trains for coal delivery), there is really no way that coal, gas or nuclear can ever compete with solar & wind on a level playing field.

I vehemently disagree with those who call for letting the ITC (Investment Tax Credit) expire.  While I agree that solar can survive without the ITC, the aforementioned argument stands: why remove an incentive for one form of energy without removing the rest?  Just because solar weaned itself off of the government dole sooner than anyone expected doesn't mean that it should be penalized while fossil fuels continue to enjoy subsidies of $18.5 Billion from the USA (see also total US subsidies & Forbes' suggests it's $13 Billion & IRS production-only subsidies) and $500 Billion per year worldwide.

I say, kill all energy incentives and bring it on!  Let the market decide, but don't let coal, oil, gas and nuclear continue to get a free ride nursing off the teet of Uncle Sam. 100 years of government handouts is plenty of time for fossil fuels to be self-sufficient, don't you think?

For more information, Google fossil fuel subsidies or see this article here.

Are You A Caveman?

Are You A Caveman?

A blog series by Troy Helming, including excerpts from the upcoming book Caveman Country

Are you a Caveman (or Cavewoman) or Enlightened?

America's strength has always come from our people.  Starting with brave explorers, pioneers and a hard-working drive to improve our lives, America is the greatest country on Earth.  I intend for America to never lose that title.  The leaders of our great nation have been, in my humble opinion, substantially influenced over the years by men who dig stuff up from the ground and burn it.

Cavemen, I call them: short-sighted men who rape and pillage our mountaintops and lands, scraping, drilling, and cutting the Earth with little to no regard for the negative long-term consequences.  Just like cavemen, these men (and some women) see only what's right in front of them: rocks, sludge and gas that can be captured for money.  They are not yet evolved enough to realize that society has recently figured out how to be civilized without clinging to the Stone Age methods of our Neanderthal ancestors.  Instead, these Cavemen (that includes cavewomen, too) choose to use physical force to beat the hell out of Mother Earth, slicing deep gashes in her skin with ever larger machines, digging out her innards until nothing’s left, and drilling her over and over again.  These barbaric people refuse to evolve to using their brains to find a better way, and they will soon become extinct.

So I ask you: are you a Caveman?  Or are you an “Enlightened” gentleman or lady?

Because for the first time in history, it really is just as easy as a choice.  Here's why:

1.     Solar energy is now cheaper than new coal, nuclear and natural gas plants, and cheaper than many (but not yet all) existing nuclear, coal and gas peaker plants.  California, the most populous state in America and the world's 5th largest economy if it were its own country, has added so much solar energy (on rooftops and on arid deserts or non-farmed pastureland) that it generates 10% of its  total electricity needs [Source], and is well on its way to achieving 50% powered by renewable energy by 2025.

2.     Wind energy is now cheaper than new and existing coal, nuclear and natural gas plants for the generation of electricity.  There are now 9 US states powered by 10% wind or more (with 2 more expected to hit 10% in 2015), and 3 states (IA, KS, SD) at about 20% or more and wind now generates about 5% of the nation's electricity [Source].

3.     Electricity generated from wind and solar has dropped by 60% and 85% respectively in just the last few years.  As a result, renewable energy now generates more electricity in America than oil and nuclear combined (16.63% vs 13.08%) [Source], and accounted for about 50% of all new electric generating capacity in 2014 and a significant share (about 40% on average) since 2012 [Source].

4.     Even if oil was as cheap as $40/barrel, electricity is cheaper than gas (or diesel) to run your vehicle on a cost per mile basis.

5.     In America's history, the US government has subsidized energy for 100+ years.  Powerful cavemen influenced members of Congress and the White House over the decades to extract over $630 Billion of federal subsidies for coal, nuclear, oil and natural gas industries.  Meanwhile, renewable electricity generation sources (such as wind, solar, geothermal and biomass) have enjoyed a scant $50 Billion in all that time, with more than half of that unfortunately going to biofuels such as ethanol [source].  Worldwide, fossil fuels get $550 Billion per year of subsidies, 4x what renewables get at $120 Billion [source].  Even today, according to the CBO (Congressional Budget Office), fossil fuels (including transportation fuels) get twice (2x) the federal dollars that renewables receive, or 4x what renewable electricity receives [Source].  Conclusion: America's policies and direction have been shaped, for too long, by men who dig stuff up from the ground and burn it (hence this blog title Caveman Country).  

a.      Reagan didn't cause the Soviet Union to break up.  Cheap oil did.  The USSR got the vast majority of its hard currency and GDP from selling oil to the world.  When oil prices crashed by 50% to $14 / barrel in 1988 [Source], the Soviets steadily ran out of money and everything fell apart.  Despite many who wanted to heap praise on Ronald Reagan and his SDI & DOD initiatives, the real story is the transition to a civilized society, away from cavemen like those in the Russian oil complex.

b.     Cavemen kept digging up dinosaur sludge while the Enlightened in the US and around the world aggressively switched to other forms of energy and reduced energy consumption overall through efficiency efforts started during the oil shocks of the 1970s.  The US moved from 17% of our electric generation from oil in 1978, 7% in 1982, 4% by 1988 and only 1% by 2010 (mostly in Hawaii, Alaska, and US island territories) [Source and Source].  This reduced demand substantially, while supply kept increasing, causing the markets to crash.  This is one of the early examples of how the transition from a Caveman Country to an Enlightened Society wreaked havoc on the Cavemen and created a whole new breed of human beings: Enlightened ladies and gentlemen who began the Clean Power Revolution.  Sadly, Reagan was a Caveman and cut off the funding and support for the Enlightened, so they were weakened, but fortunately didn't die.

6.     Finite natural resources cannot compete with technology.  This is because technology rapidly improves while costs rapidly drop (think flat-screen TVs and the cost of long-distance phone calls, if you're old enough to remember what a "long distance call" actually is).  While technology also improves the efficiency and yield of physical natural resource extraction (oil, gas and; coal), there will always be a natural limit in the quantity of physical resources available. 

7.     There is no such limit with solar and wind generation, or energy storage (in batteries, etc.).  Think about this for a moment: the cost of solar panels continues to drop (solar panel prices dropped over 80% in just 5 years from 2008-2013 [Source and Source], similar to Moore's Law of semiconductor cost reduction with manufacturing scale over time).  At some point they will be so cheap that people will think it quite strange for any rooftop to not have solar panels on them.  

8.        Solar can be ubiquitous placed anywhere and everywhere energy is needed, to power homes, business, and factories, charge batteries in EVs (electric vehicles), and charge up energy storage systems.  Did you know that today, in 2015, solar on a home is now cheaper than utility electricity in 42 of the largest 50 cities in America? [Source]

9.     Lithium ion battery costs have dropped substantially in the last 2 years (2013-2015) [Source and Source] and are expected to drop even more as a result of the Tesla Gigafactory [Source].  This is due to the same principles that cause the price of technological products to drop with manufacturing volume and steady Research & Development efforts by manufacturers competing with one another to become more efficient and drive down costs.

10. EVs are already cheaper to operate than ICE (internal combustion engine) vehicles, due to vastly reduced maintenance costs and fuel costs (even with cheap oil).  Did you realize that EVs have no transmission, no spark plugs, no oil, no radiator, timing belt, starter, or alternator?  With far fewer parts to fail, they're more reliable, cheaper (and easier) to operate, and will last far longer than the ICE vehicles driven by cavemen.

a.      I know this, because I’ve been driving an electric vehicle (Tesla S) for some time now.  We used to spend nearly $600/month on fuel and $2,000/year+ on maintenance for our BMW and diesel Jeep.  Now we spend zero on fuel and nearly zero on maintenance, and our electric bill has only increased by $80/month.  Even with cheaper gas (at the moment), the savings are compelling over 5 years or more, especially after a few years due to the steadily increasing maintenance costs of ICE vehicles over time.

b.     Eventually, EV cars will be cheaper than ICE vehicles to buy up front (that gap narrows each year), in addition to cheaper to operate.  

c.      Finally, who wants to drive around in a conveyance that burns a fuel, dug up from the ground, at such a high temperature inside a metal chamber that it literally explodes every microsecond?  How barbaric!  Only a caveman or cavewoman would feel good about driving around in an exploding, belching machine that eats sludge found in rocks as its food.  Yuck! Be a lady or a gentleman, not a caveman: drive an EV or PHEV.

To quote George (not his real name), a west Texas oil industry executive (caveman) talking about the state of affairs in Texas in 2015, with cheap oil crashing the oil economy (again) and wind power being the fastest growing source of new energy in the conservative state:

"We drilled the hell out of everything and now we're in the shits, and now they're building the hell out of wind towers to put the coal & gas utilities in the shits.  What the hell is the world coming to?"

Well George, you're a Caveman, and your kind deserves to go extinct.  It's only a matter of time.  Welcome to the new world, where the Enlightened will rule.

So here's a little shout-out to Jeff Foxworthy of "You might be a redneck" fame:

You might be a caveman if...

1.     You think filling up at the pump is good for America (your clan).

2.     You're okay with men & women getting killed or maimed defending access to oil on the other side of the world.

3.     You think the world should heal itself, and it's okay if you take what you need when you need it.

4.     You believe some "higher power" will clean up the mess we've made of our planet.

5.     You think we can just move to new planet after we rape & pillage the natural resources of this one.

6.     You wonder "what's so bad about the planet getting warmer?"

7.     You idle your car on purpose to help warm the planet.

8.     You enjoy burning wood or charcoal.

9.     You like the smell of gasoline.

10. It doesn't bother you knowing multiple roughnecks are drilling Mother Earth.  Over and over again, until she trembles (earthquakes) with weakness, gets sick with fever (warms up) and begins to die (1,390 square miles / 889,600 acres of land turns to desert each year worldwide).  

So again I ask:

Are you a Caveman or an Enlightened?!

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