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Strawfoot
Aug 09, 2008Explorer
I like the direction this topic has moved in. We are doing more than just blaming some group for the problem. But we are still short on ideas. Saying we can't trust the government to oversee or direct a major build-up of alternative energy sources is understandable considering the low approval rating of our congress. But what then is the solution?
Who is going to build 100 new hydro-electric dams? Who is going to build 100 new nuclear power plants? The government will have to play a major role. If the majority of Americans refuse to give them the ability to get these type of projects started, we will get deeper into trouble.
Ten years from now, when we still have zero new nuclear power plants and zero new hydro-electric dams, who do we blame? The politicians, of course. But they will tell us they got no support for building anything. They'll tell the press that thousands of Jimbo Alaska's wrote them letters saying they refuse to pay for anything other than fire. police and schools for their kids. They expect all that new infrastructure to just appear, as if by magic. Plus, they feel that at their age, they can run out the clock on what is left of traditional energy sources and let their grandkids solve the energy problems after they are dead and gone. Their logic is that "
The consumer will pay for the end product, thus allowing you to produce the product. ". So because the consumer wants cheap electricity, someone will simply "produce" it. That's how economics works, right?
Listen, Jimbo isn't A whacko environmentalist. He might be causing the same amount of gridlock as them but he is just an old timer who doesn't want to help fund any new energy projects with his tax dollars, based on the history congress has wasting those tax dollars in the past. So ultimately nothing is going to happen. We are going to experience higher and higher fuel costs and fail to take action to shift energy sources. It will get bad for the average consumer and then it will get really bad, and then it will get unbearable. All the while, people all over the country will log onto various internet forums and blame the government and oil companies and investors/speculators for the great big mess they got us into.
Does anyone here think we should be doing a bit more than just blaming others? That maybe we should seek long term solutions and pay the cost of implementing those solutions.
Who is going to build 100 new hydro-electric dams? Who is going to build 100 new nuclear power plants? The government will have to play a major role. If the majority of Americans refuse to give them the ability to get these type of projects started, we will get deeper into trouble.
Ten years from now, when we still have zero new nuclear power plants and zero new hydro-electric dams, who do we blame? The politicians, of course. But they will tell us they got no support for building anything. They'll tell the press that thousands of Jimbo Alaska's wrote them letters saying they refuse to pay for anything other than fire. police and schools for their kids. They expect all that new infrastructure to just appear, as if by magic. Plus, they feel that at their age, they can run out the clock on what is left of traditional energy sources and let their grandkids solve the energy problems after they are dead and gone. Their logic is that "
The consumer will pay for the end product, thus allowing you to produce the product. ". So because the consumer wants cheap electricity, someone will simply "produce" it. That's how economics works, right?
Listen, Jimbo isn't A whacko environmentalist. He might be causing the same amount of gridlock as them but he is just an old timer who doesn't want to help fund any new energy projects with his tax dollars, based on the history congress has wasting those tax dollars in the past. So ultimately nothing is going to happen. We are going to experience higher and higher fuel costs and fail to take action to shift energy sources. It will get bad for the average consumer and then it will get really bad, and then it will get unbearable. All the while, people all over the country will log onto various internet forums and blame the government and oil companies and investors/speculators for the great big mess they got us into.
Does anyone here think we should be doing a bit more than just blaming others? That maybe we should seek long term solutions and pay the cost of implementing those solutions.
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