Posted on 05/08/2008 6:31:14 AM PDT by K-oneTexas
“A recent survey on the environment found that seventy percent of people worldwide think that the planet is running out oil.”
And the other 30% think there’s an unending supply? We will run out of oil some day...but I’d prefer to keep exploring until we’ve found a viable alternative (not ethanol).
Good Article, BTTT
The question is why no one is calling the dims on the carpet as this is no coincidence!
>>Profoundly misinformed and alarmed, people place false hopes in misguided alternatives. Rather than implementing harmful, inefficient and expensive substitutes, we should insist that our government lift the obstacles which prevent us from availing ourselves of this superabundant resource<<
This bears repeating. Over and over,
but anyway some day this planet will be “sucked dry” so we need to find other energy sources. btw. do we really want to be depending on such lovely unstable countries in the ME and else where around this planet?
Because it’s easier to blame Bush.
So what’s the problem here?
1. the “cheap oil” is either used up in the United States or in the hands of other nations.
2. the current cost of commercial exploitation of “alternate oil” in the US has not been economical, although recent changes in the market may change that.
3. Whether or not we’re willing to pay the costs of start up of the alternate petro industries and the time to bring them to commercial production.
4. Whether we can ever get our government to ignore the enviro-whackos who wish to put a stop to this. (I wish those hypocrites would just go live in the woods like they want everyone else to do).
For the purpose of manipulation.
The second question:
How do we get this information to the general public?
Not just one time, but repeated over and over in the same way the Al Gore’s spread their “information”.
I bet the MSM won’t let the question get out.
The best advice I could give a young man with an eye to the future would be to learn Portugese, get a degree in geology and then move to Brazil.
It is a country of abundant and stunningly beautiful (and friendly) natural resources. Of many different kinds.
LESS PC BS and MORE NUKES — NOW!!!
We need to STOP burning petroleum/natural gas — which is portable — to boil water in stationary generation applications!!
If the frogs can safely get to 80% nuclear, just what – besides Algore and Sierra Club lawyers – is holding America back??
I guess the lack of refineries is the biggest problem.
I personally hold to Thomas Gold’s theory on oil myself.
Imagine: If our great grandparents had taken the same attitude toward coal in the 1800’s, there would have been no industrial revolution. We would still be driving horse and buggies and burning whale oil lamps.
So, I think I remember we desire ME oil because it is the sweet kind.
That being said ... how much of all of this oil is sweet, and where is it ... and how much is the 'sour' ?
* Cease all ethanol production. It requires more energy to make than it yields and the unintended consequence is higher food costs. Corn production shifted from feed-corn to subsidized corn for ethanol. 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.
* Make all “carbon credit” scams unlawful.
* Construct SEVERAL, regional Pebble-Bed Reactors (or other similar designs) that are not considered "breeders", are rechargeable, and cleaner than any current nuclear generator design.
* Use the residual heat from the reactor above to process motor fuel from coal and/or shale. Even though Clinton "stole" some of the best coal reserves, we still have a lot to use.
* Become independent enough to make the cartels (i.e. OPEC) inconsequential.
* Convince local taxing bodies to lift or cap the sales tax on gasoline so that as gas prices go up, the local tax collectors don’t see a windfall revenue jump at the expense of the consumer. The Federal government could compel the states (and locals) to cap the fuel taxes.
Our congress is incapable of addressing this problem.
OK, here’s something I don’t quite understand. The enviro-weenies have basically stopped all commercial nuclear power plant construction. But they HAVEN’T stopped military power plant production.
Why can’t we use the military version of a nuclear power plant to produce hydrogen for fuel cells?
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