Keep depending on Saudi Arabia, Canada, Nigeria, and Mexico? That seems to be getting expensive. Oil won’t go away over the next 10 years, so what’s the plan?
Brazil doesn’t use switch grass, they use sugar cane based ethanol which is stronger than corn/switch grass in conjunction with their own natual oil.
Kirk Spock- Lunar seems like a good choice. Using the tides produced by the moon with hydro generators….what about rubber band cars? heh
Originally posted 2009-09-28 17:22:52.
No related posts.
{ 15 comments… read them below or add one }
by doing everything including drilling for more oil. Might as well use it up anyway if we are going to change to something else.
we all do NOT agree.
We don’t have one except no more drilling that’s it oh and no nuclear power and no wind energy because it doesn’t look good.
With India and China consuming more and more, it has been and will continue to be a supply and demand issue, and the price being set by OPEC. The problem is that most people do not understand supply and demand economics and what the structure is of the cost of gas per gallon. Do you know that we are using more oil now than EVER before! People are driving at an alarming rate. Do you realize how much petroleum’s used in making plastics and then how many things we use are made of plastics? The oil company makes about 12 cents a gallon as profit. The rest is made up of Federal and State taxes, the cost of exploration and the cost of production, Refining and then the cost of the additives that we have to put in the gas (we call it designer gas, thanks to the environmentalist wacko’s). Do you know that we have not built a refinery in almost 60 years? (thanks again environmentalist). The refineries that we have are working at capacity and that is not enough to keep up with demand. Do you know that we hardly get any oil from the Middle East? Yes we are not in Iraq for oil, they have enough to export but not as much as you think. Even iran imports most of their oil. Most people think that is where it all comes from. Not true. We get our oil form Canada, Mexico, Venezuela and Africa, in that order. What we get from Saudi is a very small %. You want the cost of gas to drop….STOP driving or at the very least cut back 10% and you’ll see gas prices drop. In addition to that we need to open up the ANWR for drilling and off our coasts and the Gulf, as well as exploit the new found pools in the Wyoming Range (thanks again environmentalist) OR come up with an alternate fuel. Even if you had a viable economic alternative fuel source, the production and the distribution of it is decades away. Wake up people, cut back!
We are at a cross roads. We can continue to plow billions into fossil fuel investment OR we can begin to shift toward new energy sources. I think we need to do the latter.
Invest in a car that uses less gas. I myself am saving money for a hybrid.
Bush outlined the plan today
drill here and now to lower prices and decrease independence. While we wain off oil we must continue to improve new green tech. a lot of solar companies are commie chinese so wind and nuclear (if the dems let us) and new American solar companies will lead the way.
We get there by using several forms of alternative fuels. For one alcohol like they use in Brazil. Combine that with an hybrid engine and the US foreign oil dependence is significantly reduced.
We need to be doing our own digging for our own oil and stop being dependant on other counties.
Develop bio-fuels or other alternative fuel sources. Invest in institutions, like our universities, that are conducting research along those lines. I have faith in American ingenuity to solve this problem before the oil situation gets much worse. It just seems impossible because the current administration is full of former oil industry employees that don’t want to make it possible.
Alternative fuels are not the answer. It is not smart to burn our food for fuel.
Superconductor technology is the best bet for the use of energy, but that is a not fuel. We will still need oil to produce the power needed.
You sound like that dope Al Gore….
“NOW THAT WE AGREE the global warming is real….”
Who the heII agrees with that stupid comment? WHO agrees?
There are NO alternative fuels that are a “high quality” (proper scientific term) energy sources like petrol-based fossil fuels.
The 1st and 2nd LAWS of Thermodynamics DEMAND that hydrogen fuel cells will result in MORE fossil fuel consumption (and therefore more “man made pollution”)…
HOW STUPID is it, that we are BURNING OUR FOOD SUPPLY…. to make “ethanol”? Everything from animal feed to our own dinner side dishes rely on CORN… and the Libs have us burning it to make LOW QUALITY fuel additives…LOL
WIND?… too limited.
SOLAR?… too inefficient.
Nuclear?…. too scary.
“WE ALL AGREE”….. if you mean “WE” as in dumb-a$$ liberals… then maybe you are right.
If you mean “WE”, the honest, thinking, rational, American people…. you are WAY OFF.
We nationalize all oil within the boundaries of the United States of America. Get the oil companies out of domestic oil. We treat our oil industry as a co-op to be used for the good of the country and its citizens, not as a commodity that is making few obscenely wealthy while it affects our own economy negatively. The profits go to equipment upkeep, payroll and investment in alternative energy sources. Let’s face it, drilling is not the answer it will only put off the inevitable. If we do nothing future generations will look at us and say we were negligent to our own country and citizens all in the pursuit of profit instead of a real energy policy for America. OPEC warned us in the early seventies with their actions, we didn’t listen. Look at where it has gotten us.
Drilling for more oil is not the answer since getting that oil from the ground or under the oceans to the market as gasoline will take 10 years or more. I wish people would get through their heads. As it is our oil refineries only produce at a 70% capacity all the while there is plenty of oil to go around. Right when Bush took office, several oil refineries closed in California, lowering the supply on the market. Yet, idiots like Oldmarine poster up above who answered your question would rather blame environmentalists. He’s the wacko because he’s got a fairy tale he believes in and isn’t looking at the reality that the oil corporations who own the refineries closed their own refineries down to create higher profits. Well, isn’t that funny how that worked and we’re seeing record high profits in the oil industry these days. We need more development of plug in hybrids that get 180 MPG and we need alternative fuels such as battery power like we see being developed in companies likeTesla Motors and Phoenix motors. Ethanol is not the answer either because we shouldn’t have to compete with our need for food to get our energy. We need a much more sensible approach to getting energy and to making it more efficient and clean. So far, our system rewards inefficiency and expensive as well as dirty industries like Oil. We need to change that. We as in the American people need to start demanding it. So far, we have been far to complacent and far too lazy in our demands for clean and efficient fuels. Yet we expect our law makers to do it for us and at the same time we don’t hold our automakers accountable as well.