Ben M asked:
Provide as many solutions as you can think of to address this national (or global) issue. I’d like it if you give solutions in the political position, the media position, and, of course, the environmental (green living) position, if possible. CITE the sources for each solution, please.
Provide as many solutions as you can think of to address this national (or global) issue. I’d like it if you give solutions in the political position, the media position, and, of course, the environmental (green living) position, if possible. CITE the sources for each solution, please.
Thomas Freidman is a good source. Maintaining tax incentives for alternative energy sources is a good idea.
Accept various state proposals to reduce carbon emissions. California has some of the strictest.
DRILL……FOR……MORE……OIL………
There are no alternative energy sources available to give incentives. We’ve seen the debacle of bio-fuels that cause horrible environmental damage and most of all creates hunger as we put our food in our gas tanks.
Instead, we should open up drilling in the US instead of buying foreign oil. We should also reduce the massive regulatory hurdles that keep the energy companies from building refineries. This would create a more efficient use of energy at a lower cost to the US.
An inventor will discover an alternative energy source, hopefully soon. But, incentives won’t help. After all, Thomas Edison didn’t need an incentive to create the light bulb.
We CAN drill our way out of this problem. By increasing our role as an oil-producer we regain our spot atop the global economic scene. American belief in democracy, freedom and capitalism can return to the forefront of global political discussion and the rest of world would be engaged in finding alternative energy solutions that can be effective on a global scale.
The current philosophy to weaken America as a form of punishment and to allow the other countries to “catch up” is not acceptable to Americans. We saw in the 1990’s what happens when we allow ourselves to become ineffective on the global market.
Upgrade out transmission system. Our power grid is a nationwide heatwave away from complete failure. The one they had on the east coast a few years back would be nothing compared to what turning on 30 million air conditioners at once would do. We have the power production capacity available, just no way to get it from there to where it is needed.
Solar energy
Geothermal energy
Hydro-electric energy
Nuclear energy
Running autos on hydrogen or oxygen
All of the above are possibilities.
Tax incentives would go a long way in encouraging people to make the switch.
Educating people on the Energy Crisis - see the following web page going on in the U.S. and other countries right now is essential.
drill in the Gulf leave Alaska alone and also put some real investment into green energy alternatives. Solar, wind, hydro, etc.
solve two problem at once.
use the Fischer-Tropsch process to make oil from trash sewage old tires anything organic.
this would give us oil plus stop the need for landfills
it also would also clean up our rivers by keeping the drugs and toxic chemicals coming from landfills and sewage treatment plants from polluting them.
since you can make oil from trash and sewage for about $90 a barrel this would undercut the oil companies and drive down the price of oil.
that would drive down the price if gas and diesel.