Do they think we’re stupid?
It is all the rage in Washington to talk about energy independence. As a matter of fact, Presidents have been talking about it as far back as Nixon. Watch this video to see how easy it is to use energy independence as a talking point from the right or the left.
http://endependence.info/research/videos-c-12-v-65.html
So, what has happened since 1974? We are dependent on foreign countries for close to 70% of our transportation sector energy (oil). All they did was talk, not act.
The spike in oil prices this past summer made for more good political palaver.
Drill, baby, drill
How can a country with 3% of the world’s oil supply that uses 25% of the world’s oil drill itself to energy independence?
Then there is “all of the above” rhetoric. Clean coal, nuclear, wind, solar, tidal, geothermal, hybrid electric cars.
This is another political pander. Where is conservation is this mix? What the heck is clean coal? Nuclear plants take years to build, we don’t have a way to dispose of the radioactive waste and they cost hundreds of millions of dollars to decommission?
Check out these sites to find out about nuclear waste storage and decommissioning issues:
http://library.thinkquest.org/17940/texts/nuclear_waste_storage/nuclear_waste_storage.html
http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/basic-ref/students/waste.html
http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/basic-ref/students/decommissioning.html
This is a chance for the people. business and government to work together to merge the two goals of energy independence and ending dependence on polluting fuel. Solar, wind, tidal, geothermal, conservation, plant waste biofuels, electric cars. These are the things we must do to achieve endependence.
Endependence=energy independence
that ends dependence on polluting fuels.
