Comments on: Will Alternative Energy Run Out Of Gas?

Clean-Energy Field Getting Bitten By Credit Crisis, But Long-Term Trends Point In Its Favor

[jd2408]

There have always been alternatives to oil. They''''ve been around for decades. Finding an alternative is not the problem. The problem is using one.

Posted by william8891 at 12:05 AM : Oct 25, 2008
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Amen,
As long as we allow Corporate greed and our paid for Congress we will not see our country free. We need to let them know its time to stop playing their game. We want something done now. If we don''t speak up and pressure them it will not happen. We need to take back our country. Its time.

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[jd2408]

The oil from the Alaskan pipeline is now sold to Japan and other Asian countries. Oil is always sold on the "World Market". The USA does not control our domestic oil supply. The world market does. When you understand that you will understand that the USA can not become energy independent until we get off of oil and turn to supplies of energy that can not be sold outside of this country. It does not matter how much energy we use but what energy we use and how we develope it.

[ubrew12]

"Oil prices have plummeted more than 50 percent since the summer, making traditional energy sources look a lot more affordable than they did six months ago."

Market based approaches to energy always prefer the local timeline for the long horizon. In the long term, oil prices are going to go up, until they are out of sight. We better develop alternatives now before its too late.

But, try telling that to the Joe Sixpack crowd, who measure energy costs by the cost of accessing this years World Series, future be damned.

[sloppymonkey]

Newster1 Your numbers are flawed, My 1967 Mercury averaged 21 mpg. to suggest that Detroit has tripled or quadrupled the mileage on these vehicles is very misguided. Heated leather seats are the best innovation out of Detroit since the 80''s. America is some 5% of the worlds population devouring an estimated 25% of foreign oil resources. Even if we cap population growth we still use substantially more than our share. You Malthusians can preach your population explosion ideas but today''s culture of consumption in America is outpacing population.

[tannerbird]

Do not let this drop in oil prices have anything to do with alternatives this should not change not one thing.

[jd2408]

Oil is always sold on the world market. It does not matter where it comes from. If the USA drills more at home it will still go on the world market and may not do anything for this country. We need safe alternative energy such as wind and solar and better cars. Every time our country turns to alternatives the oil prices go down. That is very strange. It was the same in the last oil crises and is the same now. We need to push Congress to get us out of being dependent on oil. Our country will never be truly free unitl we do.

[nothappyatall]

"The easiest way to stretch our oil reserves is to attack it from an efficiency stand point."
Sloppymonkey"

NO, efficiency is a LOSING game because the goal post keeps moving! Cars today get 300-400% more MPG than the cars driven in the 70''s did yet we use MORE gas than ever before and it grows everry year despite more MPG requirements on engines, conservation etc.
The root cause of ALL the problems is OVER POPULATION, until and unless that is addressed with some serious controls and CAPS on births, we will be doomed to require more and more and more resources, energy, space, homes, fuels, food, water, waste treatment plants, power plants etc.
It wont matter how many MPGS cars get or how many wind generators are put up- you double the US population from 150 million in 1950 to 305 million today and double it again in that kind of time frame and there WILL BE severe problems in every aspect.

[egresor]

yes it will

the cause?

the focus wont be on wind (which it should because it the fastest means and safest and abundant and free)

no and not on other alternative fuels. it''ll be bio fuels. that means taking america grains from the food supply. and what happens when taxpayers subsidize that? (which you do) food stocks get reduced drastically too...cause all that food grain will be going for biofuels.

your food prices will rise.

at least pickens has a sensible plan for wind and natural gas. biofuels is a losing plan for americans. dead end plain and simple. you think food costs a lot now? waith til all thos bios generators start producing. they have a built in guaranteed profit thanks the our own government''s stupidity.

[sumose]

can we look at hemp now?

[Jim1900]

It is strange that we are willing to spend hundreds of billions of dollars (not including the cost of the current war) defending oil supplies from the Middle East, but won''t invest a small fraction of that for our own energy resources. That would do a lot more for our security then defending a resource that is going to disappear anyway. And apparently most people aren''t aware that most of the oil from Saudi Arabia now goes to China. So we are bankrupting ourselves to protect their oil supply. Such a deal.

[sloppymonkey]

The easiest way to stretch our oil reserves is to attack it from an efficiency stand point. A revolution in efficiency engineering could provide quality jobs in AMERICA where we are desperate for real work. The cost of foreign oil is not as big an issue as the fact that it is FOREIGN. American dollars going overseas. If what is left of Detroit would get off their seats and get to the drawing board and improve mileage instead of lobbying against efficiency we could pull out of this economic spiral. Quit missing the ball. It is on a tee. Gas can drop to a dime a gallon but with no good jobs to drive to we will all be sitting at home soon. It is not just Detroit it is estimated that 50% of energy is lost in electrical transmission. Efficiency engineering could be the key to a sustainable future. By replacing old technology Americans could have quality jobs again. Education and innovation are the keys to putting America back in the drivers seat.

[runningralph]

Consumers cheer the decline in fuel prices. But if fuel is too cheap there are bad consequences. Low prices encourage liberal consumption, pollution and discourages development of alternative energy sources. Fossil fuel won''t last forever. Consumers should keep conserving. Oil producers should cut production to stabilize prices and look for viable alternatives.