The idea is to use up all of "theirs" BEFORE we use up ours. Puts them at an oil dependant disadvantage "down the road". Whatever the Eygptian outcome-will be in our "best interests"
Current successes with "the oil machine" ( financial etc.) stiffle further alternative energy source development. If it ain't broke(all those $$$$$) why fix it.
Then it appears that we will ALWAYS be dependent on foreign oil and at the mercy of OPEC. This has been a major topic since Carter was in office, and we are no father ahead than we were then. Billions of dollars wasted on alternative energy and the best we could come up with was CORN! Pathetic!
While the USA fumbles with alternative sources of energy, other countries take the lead in that field.
For example: The USA used to lead the world in Wind Energy, but we have now dropped to second place, with China producing more wind energy in 2010 than the USA.
Solar, geothermal, tide energy... are there to be used and save our OIL for what it does best. Lubrication.
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
Solar, geothermal, tide energy... are there to be used and save our OIL for what it does best. Lubrication.
Those types of energy will NEVER be produced in large enough quantities to be the main source of energy. But it doesn't mean we shouldn't use them as a supplement. Sure, China is putting up plenty of wind turbines, but the vast majority of their power is produced from coal.
The ONLY currently available large capacity alternative to fossil fuels and coal is nuclear.
"Arguing with liberals is like playing chess with a pigeon; no matter how good I am at chess, the pigeon is just going to knock out the pieces, crap on the board, and strut around like it is victorious." - Author Unknown
No matter what is used for alternative energy.................Oil is still supreme.
Alternative energy has been 'discussed' since the carter days. And after decades of pumping BILLIONS of dollars into companies, such as GE, where are we? The companies made the bucks, but where are we today as a nation regarding alternative energy?
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
No matter what is used for alternative energy.................Oil is still supreme.
Alternative energy has been 'discussed' since the carter days. And after decades of pumping BILLIONS of dollars into companies, such as GE, where are we? The companies made the bucks, but where are we today as a nation regarding alternative energy?
Where?? we should say who? like in who is getting rich because of it. Namely Al Gore, and people behind Ethanol, the biggest Eco-Scam in history. The product that still costs more to produce using fossil fuels than it saves.
"Arguing with liberals is like playing chess with a pigeon; no matter how good I am at chess, the pigeon is just going to knock out the pieces, crap on the board, and strut around like it is victorious." - Author Unknown
Brotherhood in talks with Egypt government msnbc.com staff and news service reports updated less than 1 minute ago
CAIRO — Vice President Omar Suleiman held talks on Sunday with Egyptian opposition groups including the officially banned Muslim Brotherhood to try to find a way out of the country's worst crisis in decades, attendees said. They said the attendees included members of secular opposition parties, independent legal experts and business tycoon Naguib Sawiris. A representative of opposition figure Mohamed ElBaradei was also in attendance. According to Egyptian state TV, the government and opposition parties agreed to establish a committee that would study constitutional reform, the BBC reported. It was not possible to independently verify the report.
The Muslim Brotherhood earlier made clear it would insist on the immediate ouster of longtime authoritarian President Hosni Mubarak. The decision by the fundamentalist Brotherhood, which has been outlawed since 1954, to join the talks came as Egypt's leadership seeks to defuse mass demonstrations — now in their 13th day — by proposing reforms but stopping short of the protesters' key demand that Mubarak step down. The talks were the first known discussions between the government and the Brotherhood in years, suggesting the group could gain an open political role in the post-Mubarak era along with other opposition political parties..................>>>>...........................>>>>................http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41445147/ns/world_news-mideastn_africa/#
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