BZ

LMAO… Love your style…

From all of what I know, we could be completely energy independent well before my daughter will be able to get her learners permit. And the cool part is, *SIGNIFICANTLY* environmentally friendly while we are at it. My plan, as if I can actually be so bold is simple. Over the 10 years make the follow happen

1) um, Drill

2) From what I can tell we are close to being 90% of the way to Thermal Depolimerization of HydroCarbons, IOW, all the plastics and hydro-carbon based garbage currently being burned or just planted can be “cooked” into smaller H.C. chains, such as methane (NG), bio-diesel and a bunch of other useful stuff. So we get to close the landfills and get fuel out of the deal, and the company doing it makes serious $$$$

3a) Continue research and development of inert to inert nuclear and start reprocessing the fuel we have

3b) um, Build nuclear power plants.

4) Create decommissioning plans for coal fired power plants, for when the nuke’s come on line
NOTE: We will always need some Natural Gas and coal fired plants, nuke plants simply can not turn on and off that quickly, but co-locating some of those depolimerizations plants near the nuke plants would allow some of the energy to be diverted, I guess.

5) Continue research into coal gasification, and of course we can use some of the Thermal Depolimerization techniques to transform coal into liquid fuels for transportation. To much coal to not put to use somewhere

6a) Stop Ethanol, um *now*

6b) I would also stop re-directing soy beans for bio-diesel as well.

7) Re-think all the exotics materials going into Hybrids (batteries and some weight saving), auto-recyclers are going to start seeing interesting problems in a few years, should be interesting. I am still not convinced that Hybrids are really cost effective one you put all of the costs of ownership and disposal, combined with reasonable fuel prices. I am also not overly convinced that all electric vehicles are more than niche players. The only possible exception is the Chevy volt, just as GM locomotives are efficient.

Continue to help the N.A. auto companies produce fuel efficient vehicles.

9) Continue some subsidies of rail for both passenger and freight.

That is the basic plan, there are some details, I am not opposed to the government owning and running the nuke power plants, the owners of the coal plants that are being shut down will need to be compensated, that could take a bit to work out. But, designing and building the nuke plants will create a lot of jobs. This plan, if implemented correctly will create a reasonable boom to get us out of our current funk.

Even with the notion that we would be no worse, if not better for the environment, and all North Americans (except Mexicans) would have a higher standard of living, the greens won’t go for it.

thanks for listening (reading)
Tom

Well, it IS all orchestrated, every bit of it, either by OPEC, the BIG OIL companies or the U.S. government itself, and WE are the ones that take the hit…

I’m no math whiz, but something ain’t right here. And yes I’ve heard all about the bullshit law of supply and demand and any way you cut it its still bullshit.

When the “Drill NOW, Drill HERE” Philosophy started gaining strength and support oil prices started falling.. When folks quit driving all over the country because the financial markets became suspect, demand dropped…Whine Arab Whine..

BZ