Rudy Giullani : Leading America Toward Energy Independence

RealClearPolitics ^ | 07/26/2007 | Rudy Giullani

[SirLinksalot]

America needs to become energy independent.

We should have started to move toward energy independence back in the 1970s, when oil prices spiked and there were the long lines at gas stations. Presidents Nixon and Carter talked about energy independence, but not a lot got done. The next President of the United States is going to have to make it a major goal of their administration. Most people will say it's impossible, we've tried before. I'm running for president because I know how to get things done.

I will move America toward energy independence. It will require setting goals, sticking to them and energizing the American people to achieve them. It will require expanding our reliance on a much more diverse range of energy sources that America can control.

Ethanol and other bio-fuels are already helping America move toward energy independence. But it is embarrassing that Brazil is so far ahead of America in the use of ethanol. It should be the other way around. Seventy percent of the new cars sold in Brazil can use ethanol. In the United States there's only a very small percentage. In Brazil you can pull up to most gas stations and get ethanol. That's not the case in the United States. Our goal has to be more growth in ethanol. Because every percentage that we increase our use of ethanol, we reduce our reliance on foreign oil from volatile areas of the world.

Just like Brazil is ahead of us in ethanol, France is ahead of us in nuclear power. Eighty percent of the electricity in France comes from nuclear power. Only twenty percent of electricity in America is generated by nuclear power and it's going to go down to fifteen percent in the future if we don't do something about it.

[kinoxi]

Ethanol and other bio-fuels are already helping America move toward energy independence.

That's an interesting statement that I don't believe. We need as much energy independence as we can get. Utilizing our food supply to acquire that is absurd IMO.

[Badeye]

‘America needs to become energy independent. ‘

Really?

Will Rudy please tell me what country on this planet is ‘energy independent’?

I’ll wait.....

[grundle]

http://www.opinionjournal.com/weekend/hottopic/?id=110008530

June 17, 2006

The most widely cited research on this subject comes from Cornell's David Pimental and Berkeley's Ted Patzek. They've found that it takes more than a gallon of fossil fuel to make one gallon of ethanol -- 29% more. That's because it takes enormous amounts of fossil-fuel energy to grow corn (using fertilizer and irrigation), to transport the crops and then to turn that corn into ethanol.

[2001convSVT]

Giullani is right on energy independence. If only he was right on guns, abortion, marriage and the border.

[Shermy]

“Will Rudy please tell me what country on this planet is ‘energy independent’?

I’ll wait.....”

Canada? Saudi Arabia? Norway? Brazil maybe close?

[gdani]

My research indicates Rudy himself contains enough hot air to power 1/2 the U.S.

[P-40]

Cornell's David Pimental

I'll take his word on *any* research right after I start accepting Al Gore's claims on Global Warming.

[Badeye]

Canada? Saudi Arabia? Norway? Brazil maybe close?

In order;

Nope, nope, nope, and nope.

[NCBraveheart]

A real selling point for this issue would be to starve the islamonazis of their oil revenue. That if nothing else should be our goal!

[Sybeck1]

ANWAR needs to come up in the debates for all of the candidates. I bet all of the top tier would say no to that.

[Badeye]

‘Giullani is right on energy independence. If only he was right on guns, abortion, marriage and the border.’

Not really. Its an unrealistic, and completely unattainable goal, one that no country in this planet’s history has acheived in the modern era.

Its a pipedream, in short.

[Little Ray]

Ya know, if he’d mentioned Nuclear Power, I’d inched a little towards votin’ for the clown.

But he didn’t.

Rudy Guliani. He doesn’t have an effin’ clue.

[vetsvette]

Just more evidence that Rudy doesn’t have what it takes to be President. He would do better than a communist with fat thighs, but that Hobbson’s choice isn’t inevitable.

[MD_Willington_1976]

Canada has an energy surplus, many people in the USA are enjoying that fact... just look at the 500KV lines that run across the border... BC Hydro, Quebec Hydro, Hydro One Ontario... all net exporters, Canada also exports Uranium, #1 exporter in the world, and Oil to the US....

[GeorgefromGeorgia]

I think Ethanol is a short term fix. Fuel cell technology will eventually (50 years) become huge.

[Ultra Sonic 007]

On a side note, when I managed to get to a meeting with Duncan Hunter when he visited Alabama, I managed to ask him about energy and what he’d do about making us more independent of from foreign oil.

That’s where I learned he’s a supporter of nuclear power, drilling in ANWR, and offshore drilling.

[SirLinksalot]

Ya know, if he’d mentioned Nuclear Power, I’d inched a little towards votin’ for the clown. But he didn’t.

He did mention Nuclear Power... read the WHOLE article ( that was just an excerpt I posted ). Here's the next paragraph :

"Just like Brazil is ahead of us in ethanol, France is ahead of us in nuclear power. Eighty percent of the electricity in France comes from nuclear power. Only twenty percent of electricity in America is generated by nuclear power and it's going to go down to fifteen percent in the future if we don't do something about it. We invented the peaceful use of nuclear power, but we've let other countries get ahead of us. There is no reason for that. No one's ever died from nuclear power in the United States. Despite that fact, we haven't licensed a new nuclear power plant in the United States in 30 years. "

[padre35]

I agree, for all of the talk of one world markets, we are in effect arming our mortal enemies in China and the Middle East to a point, not all of our oil comes from the land of allah....

[free me]

Actually, if you read the whole article, he does cover nuclear energy.