* Cease all ethanol production. It requires more energy to make than it yields and the unintended consequence is higher food costs. Just say "no" to ethanol!
* Immediately create only ONE "blend" of gasoline and cease regional blends which are stupid, costly, and meaningless. Even if this is the "cleanest" blend, just make it ONE and be done with it. Trucking custom blends around the country is wasteful. * Drill for oil in Alaska, Gulf of Mexico, and other sites in the CONUS as a matter of national security.
* Construct state-of-the-art refineries and/or retrofit current and dormant ones and crank up production. * Construct Pebble-Bed Reactors (or other similar designs) that are not considered "breeders", are rechargeable, and cleaner than any current design.
* Use the residual heat from the reactor above to process motor fuel from coal. Even though Clinton "stole" some of the best coal reserves, we still have a lot to use.
* Have Iraq pay for its freedom, and maybe even pay us back for their freedom. We'll still need their oil.
* Bust up the cartels.
* Find out if the oil speculators are in fact manipulating the market to our detriment.
Add 100 new nuclear power plants to the equation and we have a winner.
I like your ideas, though you left out drilling off-shore and ANWR.
Also, I’m a bit skeptical about your last point. I wouldn’t worry so much about speculators. I’d focus on increasing over-all supply.
That’s a pretty good list.
Those are all excellent ideas; let’s hope they come to fruition. The more conservative members of Congress, the more likely it will happen. What does your tag line mean???
Ethanol plants are refineries! I support ethanol 100% but I sometimes wish that it would go away so all of you naysayers could choke on the increased gasoline prices.
You’re not running for president, by any chance, are you? :)