I guess these dems were not listening to the hearing by Congressman Markey’s Subcommittee on Energy Independence and Global Warming. There was testimony from Nissan motors, the country of Denmark, and others. Their answer is to move to electric cars, with added investment in solar and wind power. Denmark gets 50% of their power from wind, which blows better at night when people would plug in their cars to recharge.
I have two south facing roofs which would be ideal for solar panels. Unfortunately the electric company only gives credit for power we put into the grid against our own electric bill. Since I have already cut my electric use to the bone, this would not be much help against the cost of installing solar. In Germany people are actually paid a premium for the power they put into the grid over their own usage. I would be happy just to get 70 to 80%, leaving the utility 20 or 30% for operating and infrastructure costs. Congressman Jay Insle is introducing a bill to make payment for surplus feed to grid available to all.
The final statement was that we should try to be completely independent of foreign oil in ten year. The analogy was drawn between Pres Kennedy’s response to the Soviet space challenge which involved incredibly complex technical problems, and Pres Bush’s minimal response to the energy problem which involves readily available technical solutions. Please don’t flame me I am just reporting what I heard.
Pres Bush’s minimal response to the energy problem which involves readily available technical solutions.
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What much of the liberal, hand-waving world does not even bother to consider, is that there is NO SUBSTITUTE for fossil fuels TODAY. None, other than nuke power for electrical generation. Even hybrid vehicles, which are gutless people movers, cannot function without petro fuels.
Until there is a TRUE POWER REPLACEMENT for fossil fuels, such as gasoline, diesel, and fuel oils, we can only do what we can to minimize our vulnerability and dependence on foreign hostile fuel sources which are raping us blind. That solution is generate more of our own fuels, which the radical socialist left in this country is hell-bent on preventing. They will kill America to suit thier sick, unilateral, starvation of America’s energy sources. And the mindless, ignorant voters of this nation had better remember this at the polls in November.
We have a choice between energy starvation and economic and defense disaster, or working toward more independence while we develop new technology.