[cogitator]

I hear that all the time, but experience teaches me that this is a throw away line with absolutely nothing to back it up.

Memory fades fast, but I think I mentioned that energy conservation can be considered a patriotic duty and the President could call for us to do our part. (I know I said this in a thread yesterday or today.) If a substantial sector of our populace started replacing incandescent lights with compact fluorescents, insulating homes (even with just thermal film on windows), and forming grocery-pools, we could start saving energy. And those are just a couple of ideas to start with. Changing the fundamental energy structure of the economy will take longer, but it has to begin somewhere.

[Publius6961]

My 5-bedroom house has been totally fluorescent for years, both inside and out, and it is insulated beyond the most recent code requirements for our climate. My commute car gets 48 mpg, on average.

What makes you think many of us have not already done all those things?

The problem I have is with pie in the sky energy source throwaway statements.

All the suggestions would make someone rich beyond the dreams of avarice, and make hydrocarbon fuels a nightmare of the past, if only they were realistic.

Nuclear is a good example.

Yet nothing ever actually happens.