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hogwash, we can and are doing as Brazil has done by buiding hundreds of alcohol refineries. We will be able to use sugar rather than corn. Brazil uses a majority of alcohol fuels and there is no reason why we can’t very quickly...along with elecrtic cars which will be coming to the front next year. The problem we have is a sort of brainwashing that even conservatives are under thinking that we must stick it out with oil as our main energy source. That is a lie and is suicidal if we continue with it. Also, nanosolar has incredible solar panels for much less cost and about 5x the efficiency. Big solar power plants on the way!
Right now, I see Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi as our two biggest energy problems. Everyone needs to stay on McCain's case. His “softening” on offshore drilling might actually turn into some actual progress.
I found some of the comments on the U.S. News site revealing. Those advocating for drilling outnumbered all others, but these same folks showed a grasp of the situation by also calling for R&D into alternatives. That's a good thing. I think that is what most Republicans are calling for, despite the Dems claims otherwise.
Waterboard for the reasons, then imprison for treason,
the obstructionists in the Congress and the Patent Office.
Wrong Mort. Find some conservative leaders with the intestinal fortitude to call AGW for the hoax that it is. Start building nuclear plants, drilling on the coasts and at ANWR. Start building coal to liquid plants.
That would lead to energy independence in the very foreseeable future. Those are just a few simple, common sense things that can be done. Developing technologies for better mileage and cutting subsidies for ethanol and the oil companies would add to that independence. One or two blends of gasoline instead of the cluster-crap we have now. In summation, you’re very wrong Mort. We can, but will we? If we do other countries may not like us.............right, Barry?
It does say something when a silly rag like US News can identify the right policy and congress can’t.
We have the resources within our borders to be energy independent. To make the changes required to use them to that effect will take time, but it can probably be accomplished within ten years.
Or - because it might take ten years - we can do that other stuff, you know, talk about conservation, raise taxes to fund empty buses and trains, mandate funny little light bulbs and tiny styrofoam cars with 12 horsepower, impose curfews and other restrictions based on arbitrary suppositions, and so on. Those things will work, and could probably be accomplished in ten years as well.
Or we can continue to sit on our hands.
Those are but a few options. Our future standard of living will be determined by the actions we take now. I know how I want to live.