We need to explore all of our oil options. The perceptions are changing...
Why aren't we? Brazil, after the 1973-1975 oil crisis, applied some common sense. They did more drilling within their country and today are quite independent. Every possible oil drilling site should be explored, as well as building more refineries. The United States has not built an oil refinery in over 30 years. Many years worth of clean coal in Utah is available, but the environmentalists and their socialist and democratic politicians/supporters have shut that down. In fact, most environmentalists are opposed to many kinds of energy development because they fear "global warming." They would have us live in grass huts, eating snared animals.
June 6, 2008
By Hal Ranney
We have an energy crisis at hand and America is not doing everything it can to be self-sustaining and independent of OPEC or any other foreign petroleum cartel. We need to apply some good, old common sense and relieve our oil dependency on other countries.
I have yet to meet anyone interested in living on the moon or Mars, yet we continue to spend millions, if not billions, on our NASA programs. If the United States were to apply some common sense and suspend our investments in NASA for a few years, putting those best and brightest minds to work solving our energy crisis, the result would be energy cost reductions and abundant supplies. NASA has spent decades attempting to convert urine to potable water.
If that time, effort and dollars were spent on energy research, possibly we would have a viable hydrogen fuel, technology for reprocessing nuclear waste, (just like many other countries do currently), better biomass production as well as improved solar and wind technologies.
What kind of common sense prevents us from drilling for oil off our coastlines, Alaska, Montana and elsewhere throughout our homeland? China is drilling off our Florida coast – how absurd.
Why aren't we? Brazil, after the 1973-1975 oil crisis, applied some common sense. They did more drilling within their country and today are quite independent. Every possible oil drilling site should be explored, as well as building more refineries. The United States has not built an oil refinery in over 30 years. Many years worth of clean coal in Utah is available, but the environmentalists and their socialist and democratic politicians/supporters have shut that down. In fact, most environmentalists are opposed to many kinds of energy development because they fear "global warming." They would have us live in grass huts, eating snared animals.
Common sense says climate change is occurring as it has been for thousand of years. Solving our energy crisis utilizing any and all resources, including carbon-based sources, will not affect the overall climate change.
Common sense tells us the environmentalists have a choke-hold on our economy, our way of life and certainly our energy independence. Common sense would indicate we need to have leadership both in Vermont and nationally that understand how critical this "energy crisis" is and the determination to "right the ship."
Unfortunately, common sense is not so common anymore.
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