Comments on: An Alternative Energy?

By: admin

admin — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 18:19:36 +0000

An interesting fact is that offshore drilling platforms improve the ecology around where they are built because reefs form there which increases marine life. There have not been spillage around U.S. offshore oil rigs, either. Additionally, electric cars only move emissions from the tailpipe to the powerplant. Not only that but it takes an amazing amount of energy to produce, maintain, and dispose of batteries. If you look at the input vs. output energy on batteries you see how it’s a losing proposition.

In a world in which consumers make up 70% of the economy it does come down to dollars and cents. If “alternative fuels” cost 200% more people will not use them and if the government raises taxes to make them cheaper the marketplace will be altered affecting many other things… check out Ethanol, taxpayer subsidies, and rising food costs, for example. Any time a government tries to alter the market they screw it up. No thanks.

As for other nations being responsible the “developing world” such as China and India produce more pollution than the U.S. does and they have not agreed to reduce it… this is a big reason why Kyoto failed. France relies almost completely upon nuclear power, something that is anathema to Democrats in the U.S.

And as for Japanese and European auto makers making “obscene profits” I can tell you as somebody who has worked for both, this is not the case now. The American auto industry’s problem comes down to products which are not unique enough and unions… something that is killing them. Blame the union problems on the Democrats because they are in the pocket of them. Look into the “Card Check” bill whereby secret ballots are to be eliminated so unions can coerce employees to unionize for fear of reprisals should their co-workers and union “bosses” know how they vote.

By: Denford

Denford — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 17:32:50 +0000

You reduce all this to dollars and sense, which the argument is not about. You could still achieve the savings and additional revenue by going clean with your energy.

The argument against the “drill baby, drill” philosophy is that it is environmentally irresponeible, messing up the planet for future generations.

A world in which all cars are electric, coal is not in use etc would be an iifitel healthier place for us and our children.

I fear on this, America, which had done everything right so far to retain worls leadership, is going to find itself out of fashion and its moral authority and influence in tatters simply because it refuses to look forward and embrace the future of energy generation.

That innovative spirit that made America great in the Wild West, which took the nation to the top, seems now to be missing: heck while Japanese and European car makers make obscene profits, the USA auto industry is on its knees : yet another example of how failure to adapt to a changing world has cost America its leadership.

It is not too late to repent

By: C.C.Mitchell

C.C.Mitchell — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 00:17:06 +0000

$2.2 trillion in new tax revenue would solve a lot of problems in this country.

Stupid Liberals don’t know whats best for this country.

Here’s the mark of a true Idiot – http://crackedworld.com/2009/02/26/obama-and-fiscal-irresponsibility/