Thanks for the comments. Good for you. I'm not a tree hugger by any stretch of the imagination. I'm the original red-neck on these subjects. Still, there are things that just make sense. I don't like having the Middle-East's boot on my nation's neck.
There are a myriad of things that could be done to help make most homes nearly self-reliant. With a crash effort, we could do this within ten to fifteen years. My question is, why not?
I would love to see a some sort of national campaign to do just that perhaps similar to the "Help Us Win the War" programs of WWII. If energy prices get much higher it should be easy to get the public to buy into it.
100 percent agree. If we use coal to make liquid fuels, it doesn't matter if there is a net energy loss.
Because the Green Weenies block any/all attempts to use our own energy resources, current and potential. Such people are at the root cause of many national and international problems. If we were able to exploit our domestics energy without the endless envioro-studies and legal challenges the problems could probably be resolved within five years. Can you imagine how the space program would have turned out if all the environmental whacos had existed in those early days?
I don't care how much you drink but keep that lousy fuel out of my gas tank!
Drill and consume the massive amount of oil in California.