We'd better get on with it

Dems biggest argument against drilling for more oil or natural gas, building nuke power plants, liquefying coal, or doing anything to provide more energy supply is that it will not have any affect for ten years. Instead the Dems propose the “use of renewables.” Gee I didn’t know that there had been a break through with the solar powered SUV. Well there must have been otherwise the Dems’ pie in the sky proposal would have the exact same drawback as providing more proven nuclear and fossil fuel produced energy. We are no closer to worldwide use of renewables than we are to the deepest last drop of oil in ANWR.

Also, I’d ask the Dem, so do you think we will be using less energy over the next ten years? Every study indicates that energy requirements worldwide will increase by as much as 45% over the next 15-25 years. Wind, solar and hydro – even if those sources were available and expanded – will not meet future demand.

We will need more fossil and nuclear power to keep up. So we’d better get on with it. If we don’t, in ten years we’ll be freezing and starving inside our homes while Dems tell us there is no point in drilling because it won’t produce anything for ten years. Besides, even if solar and wind were perfected, where in the world does the sun shine and wind blow 24/7/365? So what do we do when the sun goes down and the wind stop blowing? Fire up the coal powered electric plant.

Lex once told GWB to use his State of Union speech to announce a Manhattan type project o get America off of foreign energy. The plan would be to exploit our own natural resource while American ingenuity produced the next “big thing” in energy.

I think we are not too far from hydrogen fueled autos and solar heated and cooled homes. Even if these energy forms were proven today, they’d probably not make up for the worldwide energy explosion over the next 15-25 years. We’re going to need more oil and we’re always going to need a proven backup. We'd better get on with it.