what's your take on america's energy future?

my personal take on america's energy future?

:banghead: uke:

and once we figure it out.

arty:

 

WTF ?

Just found my new sig, priceless.

 

My take is: production, inovation, production, inovation

Everyone is always debating on which path to take when it comes to energy, why not all? Nuclear, solar, wind, more drilling, geothermal, clean coal ect.

Dont we import 70% of our oil? too much.

I say we increase our domestic production of energy, decrease our foreign importation of energy, encourage conservation, and promote and explore inovative ideas.

sounds easier than it is of course.

 

shane - one word for that viewpoint.

Bravo.

We, as a country, have gotten lazy, and the only way to fix it is to fix it ourselves and quit relying on other countries to 'play fair' with us.

 

My question is why sell more leases on national lands when 80 percent of existing leases are not producing any oil. 68 million acreas already leased but not producing. My question is why are the oil companies paying for leases they aren't utilizing? Can they make money that way? I bet they can. Should we enable their con?

http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2008/07/gas_prices_arctic_national_wil.html

http://solveclimate.com/blog/20080612/domestic-drilling-myth-exposed

 

Think about it if you can control areas where a resource has been found, and not drill, you can thereby limit the amount of supply thus manipulating the market forcing the price upward because you can limit supply. Simple concept really if you think about it. So we should give them more access over our national resources? I think not.