Posted by
Jack Cruger on Saturday, June 07, 2008 7:06:06 PM
First we got the border fence but no money, then, we got the money but no fence. Now we have all the political candidates telling us, if they get elected, we will get Energy Independence at the same time trying to pass another Hoax bill. Lets face it oil is not going anywhere soon or later for that matter.
It’s not in the cards or do I think we should ever be energy independence and we should stop thinking about that because it is hampering our discussions on how to solve situations like this in the future. If we feel that we should be energy independent and put all our efforts into that we will only put off solutions that will get us back on a true path of recovery.
We should think of energy as a global business and oil companies as just one of the implementers of energy along with other industries such as coal, garbage, nuclear, solar, wind, corn and soybean.
In the United States we have enough oil reserves off our coasts and under our land to maybe produce about what is needed for the fuel industries currently. Oil is used for many other industries as well and with the growth projection being anywhere from 7% to 27% worldwide by 2050 we can never become energy independent even if we could maximize all our other resources 100%.
Reality check: We must stop listening to our liberal politicians and the Hollywood actors and start using common sense. We don’t have enough land to grow the renewable resources for bio-fuel (ethanol) and what is required to feed us. We can’t plant enough soybeans to produce enough bio-diesel to fuel our truck fleets for one day. Any fuel source we grow will diminish over time because of the need to house the population’s projected growth. They are also not cheaper than oil and we will, from the start, be dependent on imports form other countries.
We also have to think about how we use petroleum other than fuel. Its’ used in a thousands other products that are vital to our every day life, too numerous to mention here. Corn is much like oil and is used in just about every thing we eat and drink. The only difference is that corn has usually one crop harvest per year in North America. Today we import corn in the off season just to have enough to eat form Mexico and Latin America and a lot of that is flash frozen or canned for use when their season is over.
So let’s cut the ‘crap” our importation of oil and all other products will continue as today, therefore we should start thinking about “interdependency” the method we have been using for most of other products and vital commodities for years.
I spent the first part of my working career in a very exciting field, the transition from transistors to silicon semiconductors and where do you think we obtained the silicon from the very start? South America and that was back the early 1960s.
Interdependency, however, does not mean we should do nothing. We should explore, drill, and refine oil, mine our coal any where and any way we can, and continue to import, while finding or developing alternative energy sources. We should utilize nuclear energy to its’ fullest and yes import the uranium from at least the 7 countries we get it from today. We should not explore or depend on fuel sources, such as seasonal crops, which put out country’s food source at risk, it will be a big waste of time and money.
The United States Congress should stop making energy a political issue and come up with ways to clear the hurdles, instead of trying to pass the Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act, at the same time provide incentives in the form of verifiable grants to technology companies for the development of more efficient ways to fuel our cars and heat and cool our homes.
Don’t ever listen or believe we will ever be energy independent and don’t support this stupid Climate Security Act, because it is nothing more than a giant tax scam. In this global business environment of energy and other vital resources and products, interdependency is the only way we can exist.
By the way if Carbon Dioxide is causing global warming, why is Mars frozen when its’ atmosphere is 75% Carbon Dioxide? This is another discussion for another time.