The US will never be off the teet of foreign oil as long as the tree hugging left continues to oppose nuclear power, coal, oil drilling, wind farms, natural gas production, and virtually every other form of alternate energy.
yea....'cause that's really the reason that we're so dependant on oil
I'm sure it has nothing to do with the massive profits of oil companies and their political contributions. I'm sure that those hippies you hate so much are dead set on keeping us dependant on oil, which is why they're arguing against ANWR drilling.
Let's go down the list..
nuclear: reliable, efficient, safe (just look at the Navy's record with it), but far from clean. better ways of disposing waste aside from stuffing it into the ground is necessary. unfortunately it's nowhere near cheap enough to launch that stuff in a rocket headed for the sun
coal: non-renewable like oil, pollutes as much as oil, not the safest method but it's getting better, but limited by locations. can't just dig a hole and expect coal (lol I'm a poet and didn't even realize it)
oil: it won't last forever. I don't know how accurate that peak oil theory is and despite the suggestions that oil reserves are "filling back up" there is nowhere near enough evidence to think that the stuff will last forever. oh yeah, it's also horrible for the environment in every form.
wind farms: please. wind energy is about as abundant as hydroelectric; you can't just stick a windmill in your backyard and expect your power bill to go down. to have any kind of benefit you need massive expanses of flat land to plant a whole slew of these things. the energy itself is clean but grossly inefficient for the cost involved and, like hydroelectric, most of the places we
can get wind energy from are already being used.
natural gas: pretty much the same boat as oil and coal. somewhat cleaner than both, about the same risk factor, and even if it lasts forever it's also limited by location. there's only so many places you can get natural gas.
What other options do we have? Solar? Awesome, the technology just needs to be perfected. Many homes save a ton of money and energy by using solar panels to heat and cool water. I wonder how many people here have solar panels...oh yeah, they're still pretty damn expensive.
Hydrogen? Hah. I have to roll my eyes everytime people in the auto industry spout their crap about hydrogen being the future of transportation. The bottom line with hydrogen is that it doesn't occur naturally on Earth in any significant quantity and thus takes more energy (from either oil, coal, or natural gas) to produce than if those energy sources were simply used as it.
Yeah, the tree hugging liberals are trying to stop alternative energy sources that would decrease our dependancy from oil. The tree hugging liberals who have as one of their most important goals the desire to clean up the environment. The tree hugging liberals who support the scientific community in trying to find
clean alternative energy sources....are responsible for keeping us depenant on oil.
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I dont think so. And I want mention spying and lying.