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Politics : Politics of Energy
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To: RetiredNow who wrote (577)7/6/2008 9:41:33 PM
From: Brumar89  Read Replies (1) of 86355
 
Here's the points I raised summarized:

1) Concerns about foreign sources of energy are reasons to favor producing more conventional energy here - oil, natural gas, coal, nuclear.

2) Conventional energy sources don't require vast government investments of taxpayer money and are based on known technologies. In fact, they may raise money for the government from lease bonus payments, annual rentals, and royalties.

3) "Alternatives" like wind and solar are better environmentally, only if we assume CO2 is a pollutant. Wind and solar do have environmental impacts too.

4) Its foolish to think the govt can quickly command the construction of a better grid and a brand new electrical storage system (which doesn't exist now and will be based on new technologies) for the cost of the manned moon mission.

5) Politicians are likely to make investments based on political considerations, not what is most economical. Command-planned economies don't work as well as those that evolve freely.

6) If we could do all that (see item 4) for the cost of a manned moon mission, we ought to consider canceling the Mars mission and or the Global Poverty Act to fund the initiative.

7) ME oil would still be important to us even if we didn't use any because the world economy relies on it.

8) There are other issues involved in the ME besides energy, such as religious-driven terrorism and nuclear proliferation.

I invite you or anyone else to explain which are mistaken and why.
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