[Cringing Negativism Network]

This morning, would be a good time to start.

So. Let's start.

[Dr. Sivana]

WHat are nukes? A mainframe?

[Dr. Sivana]

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.

[rightwinggoth]

Solar / wind is Linux? You mean nothing good runs on it?

[CholeraJoe]

Solar/wind is Linux.

Only granola munching geeks can make any use of it?

[Blogatron]

Your door is ajar.

[ozark hilljilly]

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.

[PapaBear3625]

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

[SoFloFreeper]

But it's time for a government mandate to topple the applecart which is driving gas and oil prices ever-skyward. Overdue in fact.

Learn from history. Government mandates on prices decrease supply.

[pnh102]

We should close down every single oil and natural gas power plant in the USA and replace them with a massive number of nuclear and coal power plants. This way, people who heat their homes with oil and natural gas won't have to compete with utility companies who have to purchase large quantities of these fuels. We could also throw more wind power into the mix. The lesson here is clear... using expensive fuels to make power is dumb.

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.

[webschooner]

Terrorists are running Canada and Mexico?? Who knew? (#1 & #2 importers of oil to the U.S.)

[wbill]

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.

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?