Thoughts?
Hey Congress, Lead, Follow or Get Out of the Way!
Pray for W and Our Troops
Keep at ‘em. Congress will have to listen sooner or later.
Contact your Congress critters to let them know that you are tired of high gas prices.
My thought is that in 20 years, most reading this board won’t care because they will be dead, or at least financially destitute and permanently broken.
Like most things, we will wait till year 19 to begin working in earnest.
Since the first energy crisis in 1973, America has dumped $50 billion into alternate energy and tax credits.
Today, despite massive subsidies, less than 1% of our energy comes from solar, wind, and bio-fuels.
Since 1950, adjusted for inflation, America has dumped almost $40 billion into nuclear fusion research.
The result, a commercial fusion reactor “may” be possible by 2050.
In peace time, in the real dollar and cents world, government has no clue how to pick winners and losers.
Government should confine itself to funding basic research in the basic sciences and engineering.
A free market and entrepreneurs will do the rest.
We need to DRILL HERE AND NOW obviously, as well increase refining capacities. No matter what we decide to do, we will need fossil energies until we restructure infrastructure to accomodate that which we decide as most efficient as well as economical whatever the energy source. DRILL HERE AND DRILL NOW.
We need uniform fuels not boutique fuels for every State mandate. If in my lifetime, which has NOT been a week or two we haven’t “cleaned up the air” satisfactorily yet, then it ain’t gonna happen, and these different types of fuel concoctions aren’t going to matter a whit, but to inhibit progress stabilizing our energy status.
Drop the Federal Restrictions, Red Tape etc. and build Nuclear Electrical infrastructure.
Interim we need to look to the past for our future, and bring back the electric buses, lay the rails and bring back the electric trollies. So there’s some unsightly overhead wires, so what. Todays technologies can address that if it’s a problem.
Work towards the goals of electric, hydrogen, again whatever is most economical and realistic sources for vehicle power. As long as we have a supply of reasonably priced oil there will be less incentive to produce any of the above type of vehicles, but if we provide incentive it will happen, and under those circumstances should be cost effective in result.
The biggest problem is overcoming the minority whom have overwhelmed the majority with their deceitful tactics. We have to address the fact most ignored (or unaware) of the Socialist (includes Environmentalism) infiltration of our society and all facets of their movement from Media control to Academia to Government, and not just our elected officials, but the behind the curtain tenured Bureaucrats as well.
We the people are the responsible party of this mess. It’s up to us to clean up what we have allowed to happen over the past 60 to 70 years.
PULL THE CHAIN.
The problem is supply. Drill!
The government will no longer do anything beneficial until all the Communists within are purged.
What’s the plan? Cost? Schedule?