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Politics : BuSab
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To: Jorj X Mckie who wrote (1267)9/3/2009 7:48:45 PM
From: Jorj X Mckie  Read Replies (4) of 23934
 
I want to play devil's advocate here. I don't want to fall into the same blind partisanship that I see so many of the democrats....and republicans do.

I want to talk about the current energy policy. Are there some real long term hidden benefits?

To sum it up
-We are discouraging the use of Coal
-We are not using our own oil reserves (ANWR, California Coastal drilling)
-We are not really pursuing nuclear

The net result is that we are NOT using our resources, but we are using and encouraging the use of the resources in other countries (Petrobas).

What if the green movement is just a smokescreen? What if the goal is specifically to use up the resources of other countries and horde our own?

At some point we would likely be able to break away from reliance on Middle East (and venezuelan) oil. This would in effect weaken the governments there by killing their economy. And at the same time we would still have our resources. So while other countries have scarce energy with high costs, the U.S. would have another 300 years worth of coal and major oil and NG reserves.

I personally think that severing our need of foreign oil would be a great thing for this country.

So what are the holes in this argument?
-our current policy won't reduce demand of foreign oil, thus making "them" stronger while making us weaker. The strategy is too long term and too much can go wrong in the interim
-Bad time to add an energy tax when the economy is already struggling.
-Still no replacement energy sources. Wind and Solar will just never be able to offset the loss of coal as an energy source. Inland hydroelectric is pretty much tapped out and coastal hydroelectric will have huge environment resistance.
-Focus on Nuclear (like France has) would accomplish much of this without adding a tax on current energy needs. Electric cars would truly be green rather than "coal powered cars".

thoughts?
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