Our wonderful government seems indifferent or ignorant of the crisis facing the US. This need not have developed into a nearly insoluble situation. Basically, there are only a few players in the energy field: Coal, petroleum, natural gas, water power (Dams),nuclear, and to a lesser extent, wind and solar.
The environment lobby has a stranglehold on most of these .Coal, our principal source of energy is dirty. They don't like petroleum either.
Drilling is forbidden in most places Natural gas is being obtained by a process called fracting and now they are trying to tell us that it is ruining our ground water. Dams have already been placed everywhere so no ability to expand this. Nuclear looks to be our main hope and, to give credit to Obama, he is favoring this and already several plants are being constructed. The Japanese disaster has given the environmentalists more ammunition to try to put a stop to this.
I wonder where we go from here. It takes time to develop the petroleum and nuclear, assuming that we start working on this at once.
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Environmentalist... a dirty word worthy of a good spit to most conservatives/republicans :-)
We DO have an energy problem. A VERY big one.
But to put this in perspective - if our country had spent the money it has on the current 2 wars - we could be halfway to a permanent solution.
Can you imagine a USA that didn't give a damn about oil from the mideast?
Instead, what we are seeing is defunding of applied research, dismissal of clean energy credits, and cuts to education and basic infrastructure maintenance. Exactly the wrong thing to do if you want anything but to feed the massive oil companies.
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