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Every heterodoxical view is 'liberal' to certain very limited minds.
The math of energy consumption is inexorable.
If we really wanted to do something audacious for the country, its children and the future (if one believes in 'the future'), then there would be serious work on developing the alternatives to fosil fuel dependence.
left...liberal...tossed around as if they were defined terms and that they were necessarily evil...
It is a deformed fist than cannot unfold to an open palm.
We have had high gasoline prices in the past, but not with the concurrent flurry of exploration and drilling activity that we see today. New technologies and innovations have spurred the Bakken and Marecllus plays in particular, and to a lesser extent dozens of other projects across the country.
Industry is spending hard dollars on manpower and materials, employing tens of thousands of otherwise unemployed people, and increasing domestic supplies of gas and liquids. Why do you think North Dakota's unemployment is at a measley 3%?
Obama's response? Pull over $40 billion dollars from the people who are keeping his sad-ass economy from collapse. It's the way of the Liberal- punish success, reward lathargy.
Obama budget eliminates $40 billion in oil tax breaks
The Obama administration's fiscal 2013 budget proposal strips away nearly $40 billion in tax breaks for oil and natural gas companies, saying the incentives cost taxpayers too much money and do little to spur energy development, a report said.
Obama budget eliminates $40 billion in oil tax breaks
We have had high gasoline prices in the past, but not with the concurrent flurry of exploration and drilling activity that we see today. New technologies and innovations have spurred the Bakken and Marecllus plays in particular, and to a lesser extent dozens of other projects across the country.
Industry is spending hard dollars on manpower and materials, employing tens of thousands of otherwise unemployed people, and increasing domestic supplies of gas and liquids. Why do you think North Dakota's unemployment is at a measley 3%?
Obama's response? Pull over $40 billion dollars from the people who are keeping his sad-ass economy from collapse. It's the way of the Liberal- punish success, reward lathargy.
Obama budget eliminates $40 billion in oil tax breaks
The Obama administration's fiscal 2013 budget proposal strips away nearly $40 billion in tax breaks for oil and natural gas companies, saying the incentives cost taxpayers too much money and do little to spur energy development, a report said.
Obama budget eliminates $40 billion in oil tax breaks
And, the oil producers are raking in record annual profits at the same time - simply because domestic oil is about the same price as the foreign market. This isn't an industry which will close and go somewhere else if they don't get good tax breaks. Let the consumers pay for the oil and not the government.
"my patience with folks suggesting "alternatives" had plum run out.. You like Geothermal? How about Biomass? Maybe some more Hydro?"
Yes, these hold promise.
There are many exciting possibilities on large and small scales. I've seen a proposal to build vast solar arrays in the Sahara to store energy and ship it to Europe, enough to supply all the electricity. There are projects to use circulation of seawater to generate electricity by thermal differences. Solar panels already work well (despite the propaganda to the contrary) and provide good local alternatives. Economy of energy use alone would contribute enormously. America uses fifty percent more electricity than Europe. Can that be necessary?
Today, there is too much dependence on one solution (fossil fuels) being used everywhere and to an unsafe extent. Many solutions in many areas, as appropriate, would make us less dependent and vulnerable. But, Exxon would not be making over a thousand dollars net per second.
Premises checked and re-affirmed.
It did not say, "repeat the mistake we made with fossil fuels by doing the same thing everywhere regardless of whether it is appropriate or not."
It said promise. These sources of energy may well have their place.
Wood burning for heat can be ecologically very sound and improve forests in certain instances. Not L.A.
There are appropriate ways to use the others, of course.
The really interesting thing is that despite how much it would be in the nation's interest to seriously pursue safe alternatives, it isn't being seriously done (meaning, like how serious the US was about getting to the Moon, only this time much more important) except by 'little' people.
You know, the ones who invented steam engines and such.
That's how America lost WWII, by not gearing up and producing what was necessary to a brighter future.
Oops, no, my mistake. It didn't lose!
"There ARE no true alternatives that can be put on the electrical grid to create reliable energy 24/7/365 AND are environmentally better at the same time. "
Very limited thinking involved here and resembles strongly sheer anti-alternative propaganda.
Gross exaggeration of position and possibility reveal the true intent.
America is too inventive, industrious and original to remain so constricted and dictated to by a literal power élite.
"There ARE no true alternatives that can be put on the electrical grid to create reliable energy 24/7/365 AND are environmentally better at the same time. "
Very limited thinking involved here and resembles strongly sheer anti-alternative propaganda.
Gross exaggeration of position and possibility reveal the true intent.
America is too inventive, industrious and original to remain so constricted and dictated to by a literal power élite.
"There ARE no true alternatives that can be put on the electrical grid to create reliable energy 24/7/365 AND are environmentally better at the same time. "
Very limited thinking involved here and resembles strongly sheer anti-alternative propaganda.
Gross exaggeration of position and possibility reveal the true intent.
America is too inventive, industrious and original to remain so constricted and dictated to by a literal power élite.
So, um......what are the alternatives.....
Premises checked and re-affirmed.
It did not say, "repeat the mistake we made with fossil fuels by doing the same thing everywhere regardless of whether it is appropriate or not."
It said promise. These sources of energy may well have their place.
Wood burning for heat can be ecologically very sound and improve forests in certain instances. Not L.A.
There are appropriate ways to use the others, of course.
The really interesting thing is that despite how much it would be in the nation's interest to seriously pursue safe alternatives, it isn't being seriously done (meaning, like how serious the US was about getting to the Moon, only this time much more important) except by 'little' people.
You know, the ones who invented steam engines and such.
