Posted on 04/09/2008 8:11:54 PM PDT by Josh Painter
Only 10 years of 5 dollar gas prices to get there? W00H00!
In the meantime, can we drill for oil in ANWR and on the outer continental shelf?
Not if we ramp up our domestic oil industry. Increasing our own exploration, production and refining might not lower the pump price because of increasing demand. But it would allow us to keep the price from skyrocketing. $3 gas at pump is sustainable.
You all know that will never happen. It makes to much sense.
I just don’t think that intensive gardening is going to meet our energy needs while human beings remain hopelessly dependent upon food.
Here’s a faster idea:
Fischer-Tropsch.
We’re the Saudi Arabia of coal. Why aren’t we using it? Answer: We’re too stupid to pick up the technology used by the dim-bulb Nazi’s 60 years ago.
We can either start converting our coal to diesel, or we can start shipping our coal to China. The ChiCom’s are quickly tipping over from being exporters of coal to importers of coal.
The fastest thing we can drill for is natural gas, and in the Rocky Mountain west.
There is supposed to be water shortage areas in the coming years. How will we be able to grow millions of tons of grass and trees just to convert it to energy? Why divert such scarce resources (water) into energy instead of food when we already have hundreds of years of recoverable oil in our country right now?
The good thing about prarie grass is that it doesn’t require intensive gardening. It grows like a weed without much tending.
The bottom line is that we have a wide range of energy options, and we should use each one where it makes sense. Oklahoma, for example, has a fairly extensive natural gas fueling infrastructure for cars and trucks. Hydrogen is coming, and gasoline from coal, one of our most abundant resources, will be doable in the not too distant future.
While we’re waiting for all of those options to come online, however, we need oil. And we have plenty of it.
OPECKERS have declared economic war on the US and are effecting the economies all over the world. We need to use our resources here to influence world oil supplies hence price or we face untold economic hardship in the future. Those **#$@rs are taking advantage of a financial situation here in the states. I can gaurantee one thing, My sons will never be allowed to go to war to defend any one of those *$cks.
Just a rant, but well earned!
The answer is ALL OF THE ABOVE and get the government the hell out of it. The free market will deliver the product if you leave it alone.
I bet it pales in comparison to green beer.
the electric car is coming
the TH!NK electric car goes(supposedly) on sale later
this year
the Chevy Volt, with luck goes on sale in 2010.
too many others to mention
You really like those switchgrass and poplar sandwiches don't you.
Do you guys even read these articles. This is not made out of food but basically an ugly tree and a fast growing weed.
And so...We went from an agrarian nation to an industrial, and now moving back to an agrarian nation once again.
There really is nothing new under the sun. /s
which will take potential farmland and water to reliably grow on the scale required to fuel the planet.
SWitchgrass grows on land that is not suitable for food crops, but of course, you reactionarily think that just because it is a bio-crop, that anybody who mentions it, is kissing al gore's ring, which is not true.
I really get tired of these reactionary responses, based on pure political notions.
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