Spigzone, Cenk won't talk about oil depletion | 16 comments (16 topical, 0 hidden)
PEAK OIL (none / 0)

I agree Landbeyond.

The following  site provides great insight into the horrors that the energy crisis poses for our future.

A must read for all that are concerned and those that are unaware. 

http://peakoil.com/gate.htm l?name=peakintro

by Orbital73 on 02/10/2009 05:31:07 PM EST

So what is the plan? (none / 0)
How do we solve our energy problems? This stimulus package is the perfect time to invest 100% of the 800+ billion into new energy sources, conservation programs, green infrastructure, and future technology research.

I think if France can generate ~75% of it's power from nuclear sources then so should we. We can get the rest from solar, geothermal, and wind power. In order for this to work we need a national power grid. High speed rail and more local rail lines will help us use less oil. We can turn most- maybe even all, I'm not quite sure-garbage dumps into power plants by burning off the natural gas that they let escape into the atmosphere.

Give tax cuts to people and businesses who generate a certain amount of power for themselves to offset the cost of rigging their house or office building to work off the grid. Give even more tax cuts for people who build their homes according to the Energy Star standards as well as businesses.

Invest heavily in electric car technology. Down the road we EVs have longer ranges, give tax cuts to people who buy them. In the mean time we can give tax cuts to people driving 35mpg cars or better.

Republicans want tax cuts so we give them tax cuts, but we give the tax cuts to the people who are willing to be part of the solution to our energy problem. President Obama has said he wants to mobilize Americans. I think this is how we do it. I think this is how FDR would have attacked this problem.

What does everybody else think?

by gotchange on 02/10/2009 08:24:45 PM EST

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the classics (none / 0)
Peak oil

Net Exports

Energy Plan

by alphasigmookie on 02/11/2009 01:36:11 AM EST

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going nuclear (none / 0)
gotchange

Nuclear energy is the wrong way to go. Uranium faces the same problem oil does, all minerals and fossil fuels do, all the easily accessable high quality stuff is long gone with the remainder of ever lower quality and harder to extract PLUS as oil runs out, followed shortly by natural gas, the rest of the world *cough france cough* will be willing to go to the mattresses for their share of what's left. There is only ONE sane way to go. Clean, limitless renewable energy supplies. Solar, wind, gravity and geothermal. Gravity covers hydro-electric and tidal, wind covers wind turbine and wave energy extraction technologie s. Then there is that problem with storing nuclear wastes. Shutting down the funding for yucca mountain i do not understand. The nuclear waste is far far bettr off there than scattered around the country near major metropolitan areas and susceptable to a variety of natural disasters. I don't know what the hell Obama is smoking on tht one. Adding more nuclear plants would just add to that already critical and potentially catastrophic problem.

Those must become our PRIMARY energy sources ASAP. Energy storage technologies SHOULD have a hundred billion all to itself, as that is the KEY technology which can leverage the renewables to cover all needs now met by gasoline and diesel engines.



   

by spigzone on 02/28/2009 09:45:40 PM EST

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the oil drum is better (none / 0)
www.theoildrum.com

by alphasigmookie on 02/11/2009 01:29:56 AM EST

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