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Politics : President Barack Obama -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (134452)	6/26/2013 11:59:44 AM
From: RetiredNow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

Don't tell that to the electric companies. They've been switching at scale. I don't believe for a second that we can't get off of coal. I think we have plenty of energy from natural gas, nuclear, wind, solar, waves, and oil. We should be energy independent. We've just lacked the national will to make it so, and stymied by the oil companies, the military-industrial complex, and the GOP. So I always applaud any efforts by Obama to move the ball forward, although, I wish he would embrace natural gas and that Keystone pipeline and get the tree huggers to compromise a bit on fracking. What's worse? A country on coal or a country on natural gas? We all know coal is worse and right now natural gas is cheaper. Seems like a no-brainer to me, especially considering that natural gas is not just a coal substitute, but also gasoline substitute. So we can use NG for electricity and for powering our cars, until electric cars replace the gasoline engine, then we can do electricity soup to nuts. I used to talk a lot about electric cars on another thread and the GOP members there would lambaste me calling electric cars, golf carts to denigrate the potential. The other day I watched a video of a Tesla Model S getting a battery swap in 90 seconds, while a Volkswagon took 4 minutes to refill its gasoline tank. Considering the Model S can get as much as 265 miles per charge, I think those skeptics should be eating their words. It's not so pie in the sky. It's always been about political willpower overcoming entrenched interests.