If we put a fraction of our effort to go green toward better coal or oilshale technologies, we’d solve our problems pretty quickly.
Nyu kyu lar!!!!
The ultimate in Green Energy.
But NOOOOOOOOO....
Or we could just produce all the oil we need, since we leave most of it in the ground and burn it and refine it better.
We could, of course, again spend hundreds of millions on the promise of oil shale and get nothing, do another Synfuels and waste more hundreds of millions. We are already doing that with ethanol. Even though we already have gasoline that you can burn in your care much more efficiently and reduce aggregate demand and cost dramatically, we don’t use it. Instead we spend enormous amounts on chasing clean coal.
We can either continue to boondoggle and subsidize the problem or we can win the war; we can’t do both as a strategic reality.