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So was burning whale oil, until they found oil and coal.
Whales were truly a limited resource....oil and natural gas are not.
Government cannot force an industry.
BTW....he's so dumb and his supporters are so blinded by his "logic" that they don't even realize that 85% of electricity is produced by burning fossil fuels.
Most lefties think that they're magic holes in the wall with energy produced by lollipops and unicorns.
Not to mention the fact that renewable energy is unreliable and expensive.
If we have another large volcanic eruption, guess what? Solar panels will not produce electricity. But gasoline engines will still operate!
Should read "$1 billion in kickbacks, pay offs and vote getting"
It would be nice if we had a congress with stones to reign this fascist monster in.
Another billion dollars????? It's a good damn thing we are not smack dab in the middle of "the worst economy since the Great Depression".
All we have at this time is fossil fuels for cars, trucks, buses, and planes. We may be able to some day in the distant future, but we sure as hell cannot replace fossil fuels with solar power, biofuels or lithium batteries today. Obama has no clue what the fuel of the future will be, but he has no problem bankrupting the country with his green energy, vote buying, agenda.
Should read "$1 billion in kickbacks,pay offs and vote getting"
It would be nice if we had a congress with stones to reign this fascist monster in.
Gee, do ya think that the President may have some experts advising him on what positions to take?
Of course he's right and you know he's right. Thank God we have a President who looks beyond this fiscal quarter when making decisions for a country of 300 million.
I have a Republican brother in law I absolutely detest. He voted for Bush twice. He thought Abu Graib was just some guys letting off steam, similiar to frat boy pranks (after Limblahblah told him to think this of course.) Yeah, he's that guy. The one, and I mean the one, thing we can agree on is that America needs to do everything it can to develop alternatives to Middle Eastern oil. Come on. If Brazil can do it, so can we. We wasted a decade on this issue. Let's not waste another one. Find something else to ***** about.
Absolutely and these morons are the same ones who are now using the price of oil as some kind of weapon against Obama.
We ALL know that oil is NOT the future of energy..except for the big oil companies, and new energy sources MUST....NOT might but MUST be developed for the future of America. To stick our heads in the sand and say that the future is still oil is not only naive but completely stupid.
America used to be the Country of new ideas and innovation but now it seems to be the Country of "it's far too much trouble to move forward"
President Obama has it spot on that we must change our dependence on oil and seeing how the right are screaming about high gas prices, they obviously really know that too..... but it is all about politics and not America anymore.
So was burning whale oil, until they found oil and coal.
Whales were truly a limited resource....oil and natural gas are not.
Are you serious? Newsflash for you, all the low hanging fruit of oil is gone. We have used up half of the world's reserves and are now into going after shale and oil sands oil. Even the Saudi's are struggling to meet their contracts and are going after oil that is much more expensive and lower quality to fill the demand.
China is adding how many cars her year? It's a ridiculous number.
How long exactly do you think we can keep this oil-based ponzie scheme of a society going? The changes are going to hurt but if we work together we just may be able to head off a complete collapse of the system with world wide starvation and hunger (that is going to happen regardless)
The oil era is coming to a close. The World's population has went from 1 billion to 7 billion in the 120 years since the advent of oil production and it will probably be half of that after oil. It's coming, it's just a matter of time.
Obama is trying to prepare the US for this inevitability.
So was burning whale oil, until they found oil and coal.
Whales were truly a limited resource....oil and natural gas are not.
Government cannot force an industry.
BTW....he's so dumb and his supporters are so blinded by his "logic" that they don't even realize that 85% of electricity is produced by burning fossil fuels.
Most lefties think that they're magic holes in the wall with energy produced by lollipops and unicorns.
Not to mention the fact that renewable energy is unreliable and expensive.
If we have another large volcanic eruption, guess what? Solar panels will not produce electricity. But gasoline engines will still operate!
Being one of the more ignorant members of the conservative party, this doesn't surprise me. Whales can reproduce, have baby whales, and be farmed much like our cattle for their oil. It'd be tremendously difficult to build a pool that big, but theoretically possible.
But natural oil reserves take millions of years to develop. When's the last time one of the Jurassic dinosaurs died?
And you are classic case of publik schooling who believes the lie that without the governments all knowing central planners and other peoples tax money, such advancements would never be.
Transcontinental railroads, the interstate highway system, canals, the space program, thei internet -- those were all just one-time flukes, right? When and why did conservatives become such brain dead ideologues? You guys used to not be such morons. It was far left communists who tried to force the world iinto inanely narrow confines. What happened to you people?
Transcontinental railroads, the interstate highway system, canals, the space program, thei internet -- those were all just one-time flukes, right? When and why did conservatives become such brain dead ideologues? You guys used to not be such morons. It was far left communists who tried to force the world iinto inanely narrow confines. What happened to you people?
I wish I could rep you more but it won't let me. Totally agree. The conservatives have completely lost touch with reality.
Kind of reminds me of the stories of the German military people at the end of WWII sitting at their desks, approving pension papers and doing mundane paperwork while the Red Army was blocks away and artillary shells were raining down.
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