Thanks Reg, Was that photo retouched? :)
You're truly hopeless. Think, for instance, if instead of blowing 377 billion dollars and countless lives, and crippling our military by invading Iraq, that the US had spent an equivalent amount on developing an alternate energy scenario and securing our ports and such. (As an instance--nuclear power plants cost about 8 billion a piece. You can crack hydrogen by the tankerload with those babies) We would have increasing, if not absolute independence from these Christian-jailing, terror-abetting Saudis and their like.
That is quite a stretch there David. Are you like saying 911 happened because of dependance on oil? So we gain OIL independance then what? All the Arabs love us? I agree that it would be great to move to another fuel source and but you have thought something would have happened after the last scare in the 70's. Nothing happened because of the oil lobby
We would still have a functional military, as they would not be bogged down in that, yes, quagmire. The process of building a viable and sustainable energy supply would have had the simultaneous boon of employing countless workers--pipefitters, glaziers, welders, electricians, scientists, administrators, etc... This and other related proposals are already laid out by the Apollo Alliance.
From that site:
The United States passed its own oil peak -- about 11 million barrels a day -- in 1970, and since then production has dropped steadily. In 2004 it ran just above 5 million barrels a day (we get a tad more from natural-gas condensates). Yet we consume roughly 20 million barrels a day now. That means we have to import about two-thirds of our oil, and the ratio will continue to worsen.
I'm liking what I'm reading here. Where have these guys been for 30 years? I'm thinking they are against drilling in ANWR?
Check them out. You think Bush is a tough guy? He's not a tough guy. He's a drugstore cowboy. Wake up, man. Wake up.
History will tell whether or not the Iraq invasion and liberating it with democracy had any effect in the middle east. I'm with you on the border neglect and fuel plan. Are you happy?
