Quick Show of Hands
Who thinks we have plenty of oil in the ground and we just have to drill in the arctic and off the coast of Florida to get gas prices back to $0.90 per gallon?
And who thinks we are at the end of an oil based economy and we are not really prepared for the looming mother of all hard landings?
h/t Delawarepoltics of all places.
Maybe we can reach across the aisle in a bi-partisan comromise – let’s put wind turbines in ANWR.
I think we need to use Tesla technology. It can fuel the world and take us into outerspace. He invented it about 100 years ago. But the promise of free energy to everyone scares a lot of people, and led to his demise…. but it is a system whose time has really come and would be here if we were serious as a people about addressing the issues of energy independence.
Otherwise expect a very hard landing.
Where do we even hint at such? Yes, we need more drilling. We also need alternative fuels and conservation. We have to address both the demand side and supply side. Just a importantly, we need to strengthen the dollar.
Oil can be brought back to $70 a barrel. That is far from $.90
David –
I wasn’t ragging on your post. But I do think that the “we need to drill more wells” people are living in a fantasy world.
Rather than huge tax breaks and subsidies to oil companies – we should have been preparing for the MOTHER OF ALL POST OIL ECONOMY HARD LANDINGS. (c) 2008 delwareliberal
Its a farce, just today faced with a surge in the number of proposed solar power plants, the federal government has placed a moratorium on new solar projects on public land until it studies their environmental impact, which is expected to take about two years.
The Bureau of Land Management says an extensive environmental study is needed to determine how large solar plants might affect millions of acres it oversees in six Western states — Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico and Utah.
It doesn’t make any sense
This could completely stunt the growth of the industry.”
Much of the 119 million surface acres of federally administered land in the West is ideal for solar energy………This administrations Goons in the verious agencies have no guts to say enough is enough. You can’t have your nukes.
Energy independencde my foot
This stinks to high heaven. !!!!!!!!!!!
I just knew I smelled a rat. The Bureau of Land Management
(BLM) leaves Reid out of the loop !! DAMN
He learns of big delay for new solar plants in region from the paper
You know, Harry Reid, the Senate majority leader who represents a state that has been called the Saudi Arabia of solar, the senior senator from the state with 67 percent of its land under the control of the Bureau of Land Management, which implemented the freeze.
THEY MUST HAVE LOST MY TELEPHONE NUMBER, said Reid.
Now the secret is out. Billions for nukes, delay on solar….
Energy Independence my ass.
Jack Krugman of the new york times makes the case on his blog, and backs it up with facts. We are closer to peak oil than a lot of people are willing to admit. It`s like the end of the peanut butter jar when you really want a p & j sandwich, you will do a lot of work scraping the sides of the jar rather than run out for a new jar. We are reacting to oil the same way. The lakes of oil are gone only the puddles are left and they are always going to be more expensive to get at. We need to start reducing our dependency on oil. We use 25 barrels of oil per person per year, compared to japan and europe who average 14 barrels per person per year. They have spent much more on mass transit then we have, and have designed thier city`s to be much more compact then our suburban sprawl messes. Cheap oil is gone forever, we need to deal with it .
Correction; I meant paul not jack, must had the odd couple on my mind.
I think we have to be open-minded and try all kinds of different things – even if we once thought them unthinkable. I think we should look at countries that are energy independent and try to learn from them.
My understanding is that France has had a lot of success with nuclear energy. Frieda, is that correct? If so, how do they dispose of it safely?
Dominique
I tell you how ! They are now negotiating with Russia to take their nuclear waste. They were building “Breeders” which would use the waste, but the program went sour. The reason they got this far is because Electricity is nationalized. No responsibility to Stock holders, no environmental impact studies necessary. no disclosures of accidents (and there have been many) etc. etc. etc. and now they are stuck suddenly the French anti nuclear movement is 800.000 strong.
Brian, with Telsa you kinda getting into some wierd stuff… but heck, things move so fast these days maybe we could learn to control it
France leads the world in reprocessing nuclear waste. It even imports it from other countries. Ironically, Americans invented the technology.
Thanks Jason for not ragging on the post. I am not used to that. 🙂
What are you all whining about, your candidate (BHO) is happy with $4/gal and wants to see the price go higher.
Makes people conserve, don’t you know.