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With China and India emerging, the US needs to come up with an energy policy that works and quick. Right now our energy policy is a list of things we can't do. Can't drill in Alaska, can't drill on the west coast off shore. Can't build refineries without a 10 year battle of red tape. What can we do?
What is accurate about the cartoon is that it doesn't show the energy companies championing clean energy supplies. I don't know enough about wind, water, geo-thermal, solar to know what amount of energy they could produce, but these are options. Do they cost something? Yes. It seems to me the public wants clean energy. Drive around rural Germany and you see wind energy being harnessed. While they rely on Russia for a lot of fossil energy, they do try to offset that need with domestic supplies. Wind provides Germany with 6% of its needs. Nearby Denmark gets 19% of its needs from wind.
What is accurate about the cartoon is that it doesn't show the energy companies championing clean energy supplies. I don't know enough about wind, water, geo-thermal, solar to know what amount of energy they could produce, but these are options. Do they cost something? Yes. It seems to me the public wants clean energy. Drive around rural Germany and you see wind energy being harnessed. While they rely on Russia for a lot of fossil energy, they do try to offset that need with domestic supplies. Wind provides Germany with 6% of its needs. Nearby Denmark gets 19% of its needs from wind.
Correct, but the US won't go with wind. Plus, where wind makes sense, no one lives there......so now you need transmission lines, which no one wants.
Shell did spend 5 billion on biofuels.......just to conclude they don't work. They spend alot of money trying to find more oil that,then they can't drill.
Like or not, fossil fuels will be our #1 source for decades.
It is good to hear that other posters have some common sense about America's energy problem. NUCLEAR POWER is the only viable solution right now to meet our growing energy demands. Wind, Geothermal, solar and biofuels are not enough. We also need to open up Alaska to oil drilling as well as areas off the coast -
Maybe when gasoline hits $4.00/gallon the public will come to their senses about nuclear power.
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