Posted on 04/30/2008 5:08:46 AM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network
Enough is enough.
This poster is opposed mostly, to government mandates.
But it's time for a government mandate to topple the applecart which is driving gas and oil prices ever-skyward. Overdue in fact.
Time for Republicans, Democrats and Libertarians in our government to agree we cannot continue to send our national wealth to terrorists and communists - and simply decide that beginning in 2010, all new autos sold in America, must include some form of a "flex fuel" option.
This will present escalating fuel costs the one thing, which will in fact solve the problem: COMPETITION.
So. Let's start.
WHat are nukes? A mainframe?
Then there’s compressed natural gas, methanol (from trees and coal), hydrogen, geothermal. I’m sure the Palm OS, Amiga Intuition, fit in somewhere. MS-DOS must be leaded gasoline, I suppose.
Solar / wind is Linux? You mean nothing good runs on it?
Only granola munching geeks can make any use of it?
Nope, not even the geeks can use solar/wind to run a car. Unless you want to go 10 mph on the freeway.
For transportation fuels, nothing can beat gasoline/diesel yet, and for the foreseeable future.
Your door is ajar.
That, and nobody gets paid for using it.
That comparison was really an afterthought. What started the thought, was how flex-fuels are currently being misrepresented as somehow responsible for rising rice prices.
Fact is, rice has nothing to do with ethanol production whatsoever.
It’s “FUD” by those whose interests include keeping us hooked on buying oil from terrorists..
Ethanol is Vista?
The time to drill the crap out of Alaska was 20 years ago. We need to get off the pot and get busy NOW.
It’s a matter of national security and economy.
My God, the jobs that would generate, to say nothing about a reliable fuel source that isn’t tied to the whims of another country that may or may not hate us. Our dollar might actually be worth something if we would do this.
If congress would just let the refineries, the drilling and new nukes be done and built, ah what a wonderful world it might be.
But that’s too freakin’ easy and we don’t want to bum out the left spotted vernal monkey weasel(it’s endangered, y’know.)
Our government is hell bent to destroy this nation. Who needs Al Qada, we ruining ourselves just fine, thank you.
Nobody is keeping me hooked on anything. I'm master of my own destiny and, so far, I have a choice of what vehicle to buy and what it runs on.
If we built a whole bunch of nuke plants, with the target of having 80% of our electricity be nuke generated, we could then take our massive coal reserves and use coal-to-gas technology to produce synthetic gasoline and tell the Middle East to get lost
Throw in plug-in hybrid cars which can be charged from the nuclear plants' nighttime output. Most people's day-to-day commuting could be purely electric with the gas engine used for longer trips or for the short times you need extra power.
Learn from history. Government mandates on prices decrease supply.
Second, we should drill for oil in Alaska, Florida, California, North Dakota, my backyard, anywhere and everywhere. Screw the NIMBYs and the environmentalists. The goal here should be to not only increase our own oil supply but to replace all the oil we import from the middle east, Venezuela, Russia, and any other country or region that continually gives us grief. Another lesson learned... the USA has gotten nothing positive from all the trillions of dollars we have poured into the Middle East since the 1930s to purchase oil. Nothing.
Third, we need to streamline the sale of fuel in this country. Pick one type of fuel that pollutes less, generates the most energy per gallon and is relatively easy to produce and just sell that everywhere. The government can use its power of eminent domain to purchase any patents or other rights to the process so that it becomes easier to do this.
Lastly, we need to offer tax incentives to car companies to produce at least one type of non-hybrid car that gets a very high mileage. People who want to purchase such cars are often stymied by the fact that these cars are simply not offered for sale here. If we gave car companies an incentive (not a mandate) to sell such vehicles, then maybe more people will show interest in these vehicles.
Terrorists are running Canada and Mexico?? Who knew? (#1 & #2 importers of oil to the U.S.)
That's Brilliant! All we need to do is pass a law that makes Ethanol a viable source of fuel!
(slaps head) Why didn't I think of that?
Saudi Arabia is the #2 largest importer of crude oil into the US. We import more oil from OPEC than Non-OPEC sources.
U.S. Crude Oil Imports by Country of Origin
http://tonto.eia.doe.gov/dnav/pet/pet_move_impcus_a2_nus_epc0_im0_mbblpd_a.htm
Mexico’s production and exports have been falling while Saudi Arabia’s have been rising.
pnh102 for energy secretary.
I changed my mind.
Gasoline is an “IBM Selectric” ... typewriter.
Or perhaps, even a manual typewriter. Slamming down on those keys, to make sure the carbon ribbon, transfers the ink onto that page as you type.
Gasoline is ... a film camera. A bottle of white-out on your desk.
Sold to American consumers who simply need to get to work each day... By terrorists.
That’s the uncomfortable truth, which most FReepers really are trying very deliberatly, to avoid recogizing.
I really do not understand why...
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