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To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (183081)9/17/2001 5:35:33 PM
From: MSI  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 769667
 
Good subject, especially now

"Perhaps it is time for a balanced national consensus."

Really, it's time for leadership. It isn't "either/or" between conservation, new efficient technologies, and more energy production from mossback companies. We need them all. The goal is independence from having to mother-hen the oil countries of the world.

If oil is obsolete, so is the Taliban

It's simple. It isn't, apparently, easy, just to say those words. All the vacuum-heads have to say is "ok, gang, let's do both, in the interests of our security", and forget the dark backroom deals and secrecy b.s. Full disclosure, and full speed ahead on energy independence. There are a million ways to do this. I'm building an energy-independent home. No big deal, these days. The tech is all there. We just need motivation to make it a national priority, in spite of the mossback tendency to keep milking obsolete old businesses as-is...

Another reason we citizens have to take leadership role, and tell our so-called leaders how it's going to be.



To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (183081)9/17/2001 5:41:56 PM
From: Robert Salasidis  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 769667
 
With the oil sands having about the equivalent reserve capacity of Saudi Arabia (albeit at a higher cost), I would think that NA has the capacity to fuel its own requirements for the next 50 years (long enough to allow development of other energy sources at a competitive price to oil)