Posted: Jul 10, 2008, 1:43 PM CST
Sparky55 wrote:Ttom, Don't be bringing up real issues here. These threads would die and then where would we be?
In all seriousness, I have heard very little on the issues. They seem to be quite unimportant.
Sorry I forgot....is the memory lapse thingee when you hit 55 in age.
You see one guy.....is saying drill for oil when the country needs oil....it makes sense. You see him saying......hybrid cars.....to cut emmissions...and it makes sense. You see him saying.....alternative energy and it make sense........ You see him saying.....low emmission coal and it makes sense.
You listen to the other guy and he says research and windmills. Let me see.....our past research has gotten to low emmisions coal, alternative energy, hybrid cars, and offshore drilling....so why duplicate the research? Why not put it into practice and go with it.
You know a football team can practice well or play well. Some do both.
Some do neither. Research to me, is alot like practicing. Finding out what we can do, the possiblities. But it is only once you get it to the game field that you know what you have to do to win.
Do we want to be a country for the next 4 years is practicing to meet the energy crisis? Or do we want to be a country that putting things into practice that help solve the energy crisis?
I am reading up on Picken's windmill and alternative energy program now. I have to say....running natural gas pipeline to very service station in America, making the conversation of millions of cars to natural gas, placing large number of solar and windmills thru the middle part of the country. Scares the bejebbers out of me.
They tried this (on smaller scale) in a province of Canada......they had a total of 700 car converted.....and did not have enough of the service stations with natural gas to supply them. It was not inexpensive. Each vehicle conversion qualified for a $1000 gov't grant....and they were paying more on top of that.
The Canadian site I visited.....and said they were shutting the program down. We cannot get into programs that are so complex and costly, that we cannot sustain them and achieve them. We have to develop the winners, preferably those that are low costs.jmo