Ron,
Re: It is only the neanderthals like the current administration who lack the vision to get us off the petroleum teat,
Well, that's a bit harsh.. :0)
Though completely true.
However, the will to spend the money simply didn't exist when Bush was elected, so the second best solution was more drilling here at home.
Clearly you do understand that this can't work. Or, don't you? If you look at the statistics on rotary rigs, you'll discover a really discouraging note. We're tapped out.
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There are not any new big oil discoveries left to be made in the U.S. territories. Get over your delusion that we can "grow our own".
And regards ethanol..... Good grief. Look at what the components of ethanol are. 1% sunshine, 49% natural gas converted to ammonia and 50% diesel converted to transport.
Ethanol is an energy sink hole, not a source. (I speak extemporaneously, my figures could be off slightly, but not by an order of magnitude. Thus, growing corn for energy is a really crazy, crackpot notion, IMO.)
I've read the James Hogan opus on Nucleation. I'm in love with the fact that the American public is so ill-educated that it can't understand the issue of radioactive waste from a coal plant. This bodes well for demagogues like those referenced in the first paragraph of this rant. They don't have to pull the wool over anyone's eyes. Since we are already so completely benighted. God help the human race, we're supposedly the best educated, least superstitious people on the face of the planet and what do we do when a handful of crazies implode a beehive of WTO enthusiasts? We consult Nostradamus. Yup, after the WTC debacle, people in droves on Amazon.com decided to read the predictions of a 17th Century kook in order to understand the future. Hell, that puts us at least six centuries ahead of Bin Laden's crowd. Sheesh.
R. |
