Begging Yahoo news pardon, who says this is the starting point: “and a wholesale shift to renewable sources of energy”.
Who says what we are using now, is not renewable. Hmmm? Cat got your tongue? Since we seem to be finding more and more, I’m postulating that your postulation is bunk, a myth, a great beginning if you have an agenda.
...and while we are on the subject of “fossil” fuels, I’m going to step out again and say “buzz word”, an agenda oriented script designed for promotion of the agenda. Crude oil is what we use until something better comes along.
I don’t see anything better on the horizon or over it. Development of many forms of alternative energy are is ongoing, but not viable from the standpoint of broad use by the world’s population.
When man learns how to channel the sun’s energy into a pipeline, or drill into the earth’s magma and put it to use, or put the new, used tire burning, power plant on line or find a cheap method of producing and storing hydrogen gas, or an even newer nuc reactor we will need to drill here, drill now.
Couple of favorites of mine:
Nuclear energy to produce electricity. Electricity can be used to split water and extract hydrogen which can be burned in a (highly) modified internal combustion engine so that we can have the power and performance we’re used to.
The other is fuel cell tech.
This, of course, is assuming that we take the greenies at face value, that they’re actually concerned about the environment. This is not true, though. Their main concern is our lifestyle - they want to reduce it.