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Politics : Politics of Energy
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To: TimF who wrote (1270)8/8/2008 11:58:52 AM
From: Road Walker  Read Replies (1) of 86355
 
It doesn't when the amount "transferred" to other countries is less then the amount that we would use up in the attempt to stop the "transfer".

Which it certainly isn't.

Transfer in in quotes because its a trade, not a transfer, we are getting something for the dollars, and we aren't reducing American wealth by doing so, but rather increasing, it since the oil is worth more to the users of it in the US than the dollars it costs to buy.

Then we should just import everything and have our trade imbalance 100% of our GDP.

The alternatives are subsidized to a greater extent than the conventional energy is.

No way. We are fighting a resource war.

As for entrenched, that's part of the reason why it makes sense not to move rapidly away from conventional energy sources. They are "entrenched" mostly in that they have an advantage do to the existing infrastructure. The existing infrastructure is a feature not a bug. Its useful. Part of the extra cost of the alternatives is building up alternative infrastructure. That's a real cost, and a negative for the alternatives, not a strong justification for large subsidies.

The nice thing about electric is that the infrastructure is entirely in place... in fact much more convenient than IC. Need a little more production on the back end and we have plenty of experience with that... it's going on all the time.
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