RV Fuel Issues & Prices - Post 'Em Here!

macira wrote:
Strawfoot. The world has already had a failed example of Governmant directed and controlled industry and development. That was the USSR, even now Comunist China is far from that Marxist-Leninist/Socialist model.
We need Legislators that help folks do and develope industries that are honest,
and desired by folks willing to trade and buy them.
Government direction of business and development is a sure road to perdition.
Lets have "Change that works"!!

I see a world of difference between the USSR and say, NASA. Now I'm no fan of NASA but the U.S. government decided on a mission for the country. It set a ten year timetable and acquired the funding. Personally I feel it has been mostly a waste of money. We don't need to spend a few hundred billion dollars trying to send a human to Mars, just to prove it won't work.

However, that is the spirit I'm trying to get across. A project for our country to quickly move towards energy independence. I'm not saying the government should run everything. But how do you get 100 new dams and 100 new nuclear plants built without the government?

Gridlock is the result of people dragging their feet or opposing something and blocking all progress. They can have good reasons. They might not want to pay higher taxes. Sadly, they'll pay $10 a gallon for gasoline in five years, and still only be able to buy a limited amount each month due to rationing, but they won't have the insight to support building hydro-electric dams and nuclear power plants to provide a clean energy source that can't be manipulated by foreign countries.

I refuse to accept your notion that building new dams and nuclear power plants makes us like the USSR. I doubt we can do it without involving the U.S. government. We need new energy sources on a huge scale. 100,000 wind turbines, 100 or more nuclear power plants, hydro-electric dams by the dozens, solar panels on every roof, geo-thermal plants, tidal power plants. Now, how does it happen? What are you suggesting?

For all of you living in California, why do you suppose they lead the nation in getting home owners and businesses to install solar panels? I think it's simple. They offer the largest tax break. I believe it's around 50% of the cost that gets refunded. Now you might not agree with the government handing out tax breaks for a select group of people, but it works. If my state offered that kind of deal, I'd order solar panels for my roof. I already have two panels on my fiver and love the solar system that allows me to dry camp and still have all the power needed to run my stereo and television.


Let's get some ideas from all those who say no to paying a tax to get new energy solutions. Don't tell me what won't work. Don't tell me the government always fails. Tell me how to get new, clean, reliable energy sources in the U.S.