Posted on 05/08/2008 6:31:14 AM PDT by K-oneTexas
You should run for office.
That is the most intelligent post on this subject I have ever seen.
Real truths:
1.) There are several hundred years worth of hydrocarbon deposits known in the world.
2.) With a big enough sack of money, a good chemical engineer can turn any hydrocarbon into any other hydrocarbon.
3.) The solution to high prices is high prices.
The largest reason alternative energy is not aggressively pursued is goverment controls of one form or another.
If you want an unlimited supply of cheap energy, have the government declare hydrogen production to be tax free.
Great article. I would like to see a similar one on tha amount of proven uranium reserves.
>>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,
HEAR FREAKIN HEAR!!!!
If the ecofresk's strangle hold on Congress can't be broken we are doomed to continue paying through the nose to import oil from people who hate us and want to see our nation destroyed. It seems that the greenies and their congressional allies would rather see the Chinese communists, who care little or nothing about the global ecology, use our oil than for us to use it ourselves.
The only good thing about the Democrat energy policy is that it is a clear demonstration of what the Democrats wish for the future of the US. The Democrats want a flat world order with the US economy on the same level as the rest of the world. Limiting our use of natural resources is the fastest means to that end.
Carefully read again what you posted.
Regardless of how much new oil we find, the old fields will decline. ????
Regardless of how much new oil is found?
For all we know, there is 100 or 1,000 or a million times more to be found than the old fields had originally. If so, then old fields could go to zero and we would still have more than we can use.
The fact that old fields are drying up only makes it more imperative that we drill in all known sites.
I noticed this too. Some Republicans are complicit in the policies that got us to this point. High taxes on energy production, restrictions on drilling, and policies which encourage multinational corporations, such as the relocation of Haliburton to Dubai.
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I’m almost to a point of saying let the Rats have the House, 60 in the Senate and the Presidency because when they get done destroying America hopefully there will be more people with common sense that will run all the bums out of town then we can start rebuilding.
Excellent question.
Suggest you and some friends get over to your critter’s next congressional town hall meeting and ask him/her.
Before we construct new nuclear reactors, we must solve the problem of what to do with spent fuel rods. The rational solution would be to reprocess these rods and use the resultant plutonium to construct new rods. Approximately 90% of the potential energy contained in the rods is wasted when they are pulled out of the reactor.
Yep!!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2008480/posts?page=117#117
Read some of the following post as well to get cost more up-to-date.
If you want an unlimited supply of cheap energy, have the government declare hydrogen production to be tax free.
ups. i mean it would NOT work for germany the same way
EVERY SINGLE TIME that Republicans have tried to do “Something” about it, they have been met with a storm of “You want the Children to DIE!!!!” BS from the left, happily repeated by the MSM.
From a political point of view, after a while it simply becomes easier to avoid the point, rather than face demonization attacks every time you dare to cross the Environazi’s.
As a for instance, the cute “Polar Bears on the melting Ice” photos. No connection to reality, but it plays well with the sheep.
Or the Sierra Clubs “ANWAR” photos of migrating caribou in a beautiful wilderness, when the REALITY is that those photos were taken HUNDREDS OF MILES AWAY from Anwar.
It's a PROPOGANDA WAR, and we don't play it, well...
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