A False Accusation About Energy

So, as I see it, Obama's plan is to spend money on research and development and to oppose development of proven technology like nuclear power, and to oppose drilling where we know there is oil.

Spending money on research isn't change and it certainly won't make a difference in the next decade. The Bush Administration has already been doing this. Check out the Energy Department's website at http://www.eere.energy.gov/ some of the grants already funded at http://www.doe.gov/sciencetech/grants.htm and in particular the biomass research already being funded, listed at http://www1.eere.energy.gov/biomass/

dtraffas did you read this article to know why...the answer is it would take 20-30 YEARS or so to see resolutes

Less than 20% of our oil comes from OPEC, the majority comes from Canada. The 3% that we'll get by 2030 is no where near going to replace "middle east" oil. The myth has been propagated that all our oil is coming from hostile countries when in fact, it isn't the bulk. If we need to be drilling for more oil, how come the oil companies export the oil they are drilling right here at home?

Offshore drilling is a waste of time and money and we have not either to spare.

in the year 2008, to spend any time or any money attempting to find the miniscule percentage of oil - as compared to the world market - is the worst idea possible. Carbon-based fuels are destroying our habitat. Its not about saving the planet - its about saving us.

Posted By: Johndavidprince @ 07/09/2008 7:47:26 PM
Comment: For all the money we would spend on clean coal or nuclear energy we could develop actual solutions like the multiple renewable forms of energy. The estimated amount of coal in the US is about 250 years. That number was tallied before anyone ever mentioned using coal reserves for gasoline. We use coal mainly for electricity. The use of coal for gasoline would drive up the cost of coal and possible cut the supply for electric use by half.
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Coal gasification has been in place since the 80's in North Dakota. The coal in ND is soft coal, too soft to be used as heating or electricity, so it had little value. The solution is utilize the soft coal was for coal gasification. And, with the high price of gas, it has revitalized the gasification plants and the west is booming again. Between the oil drilling and the surface coal mining for gasification, ND is thriving. At least some of the working class people are benefiting in this lousy economy.

Every square inch of our municipal busses is covered by advertising. Chicago is trying to sell the Chicago Skyway to a corporation, any corporation. United Arab Emirates has is about to acquire 75% ownership of the Chrysler building in Manhattan. A foreign corporation now owns the Pennsylvania Turnpike.

Eight years of Republican rule and I see out country going out the door piece by piece. The amounts owed on our China and Japanese credit cards is staggering. If they demanded repayment within 90 days, we could not meet their request and would have to give them Washington and Oregon.

Where in hell does it all end?

I agree with Apostasy on the subject of stupid Republicans. There is nothing you can do for a quick fix for the gas problem because you Republican idiots have been asleep at the wheel for eight years. The oil companies already have 90 million acres of which 70 million acres are untouched. Why can't you persuade your oil company pals or your Saudi pals to drill more? Because they are smart unlike you, and are going to milk the American people for every penny, thats why.
So their solution is to give more land to the oil companies and transfer the few cents gas tax from the goverment to the Saudis. Sell the Whitehouse to the Saudis too (Oh wait! that has happened already). The only thing that might save this country is if we get out of the clutches of the Republicans. I know most people wont admit but this but at some point I supported the Republican idiots falling for their false promises. If another Republican becomes President even God wont be able to save America. That is though I have never given money before I am giving money to Democratic candidates at every level in this election even if it bankrupts me.

For all the money we would spend on clean coal or nuclear energy we could develop actual solutions like the multiple renewable forms of energy. The estimated amount of coal in the US is about 250 years. That number was tallied before anyone ever mentioned using coal reserves for gasoline. We use coal mainly for electricity. The use of coal for gasoline would drive up the cost of coal and possible cut the supply for electric use by half. This is not a solution. Instead it is creating a slow moving blood clot that will eventually reach the brain and end in stroke. Nuclear power is not any better. It is another non-renewable energy. Uranium supplies are estimated at around 150 years. The cost will continue to rise just as with coal or oil. Therefore nuclear is not a real solution either. You might ask, ???What are the solutions,??? there have been so many renewable sources of energy. Many are very creative. Like the use of Ocean currents, Ocean wave movement, Tidal movement, Wind, Solar, Biochemical technology and other Biological Engineering concepts show promise or are already in development and production. That is where our money should go. But the real solutions free individuals from being attached to large energy companies. Oh, that is just awful, for them, but liberating for us. Imagine a source of energy that will never go up in price due to the fact that it is renewable. I already have, can you?

7,925 gallons of uranium solution spilled at a factory at the Tricastin nuclear site in France. Let us time travel back to Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, or the Incident in Ohio. This is not a good record. Proponents of Nuclear Power like to claim that with modern advances it is very safe to expand its use. Well, two of the four incidents I mentioned both occurred with modern advances in technology. There is no guarantee that even with new technology another Chernobyl would not happen here in the USA. What we do not realize is the fact that even with all the technology in the world Human Error is always a factor. Building more Nuclear Plants is not an answer to the price at the pump. It is not a Renewable Resource. So the price will increase as Uranium becomes scarce. There is the waste issue and potential devastating accident factor, which make it a very unstable source of power with multiple thousand-year storage costs. A lot of people are unaware that some of the same energy companies that deal in oil and gas also deal in Nuclear Power Plants. Solar energy is permanent or renewable, cheap, and can be installed on an individual basis. That is why large energy companies are not in any rush to push that form of energy. We could all be independent of an electric bill if solar technology is funded with the money that would have gone to Nuclear power plant development. But that would leave the electric companies out of business. If we put dollars into producing affordable solar panels or nano-solar technology we could allow each individual citizen the ability to produce their own energy and use as much of it as they wish with no reliance upon any outside monopoly. The proponents of Nuclear are either greedy or blind to the potential in other much safer forms of energy.

For all the money we would spend on clean coal or nuclear energy we could develop actual solutions like the multiple renewable forms of energy. The estimated amount of coal in the US is about 250 years. That number was tallied before anyone ever mentioned using coal reserves for gasoline. We use coal mainly for electricity. The use of coal for gasoline would drive up the cost of coal and possible cut the supply for electric use by half. This is not a solution. Instead it is creating a slow moving blood clot that will eventually reach the brain and end in stroke. Nuclear power is not any better. It is another non-renewable energy. Uranium supplies are estimated at around 150 years. The cost will continue to rise just as with coal or oil. Therefore nuclear is not a real solution either. You might ask, ???What are the solutions,??? there have been so many renewable sources of energy. Many are very creative. Like the use of Ocean currents, Ocean wave movement, Tidal movement, Wind, Solar, Biochemical technology and other Biological Engineering concepts show promise or are already in development and production. That is where our money should go. But the real solutions free individuals from being attached to large energy companies. Oh, that is just awful, for them, but liberating for us. Imagine a source of energy that will never go up in price due to the fact that it is renewable. I already have, can you?