I feel that we, as Americans, should convert Coal into gasoline while drilling for our own Oil to use for gas and other oil based products and use Nuclear , Solar, and Wind power for electricity. Along with finding other types of energy solutions!
PUTTING ASIDE YOUR POLITICAL AFFILIATION, IT’S TALKING POINTS and BASHING THE OTHER SIDE – what do you think would make America energy independent?
Meaning, YOUR ideas, not your political parties ideas!
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coal is too dirty
THE ANSWER IS NUCLEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yes we do.
But the environmentalist will not let us.
They think that it’s better to be dependent on foreign oil and be dependent on countries that do not have our best interest at heart.
Maybe one day when the ME quits selling us oil they will see the light.
I am beginning to think that THAT is what it will take.
Being energy dependent on countries that don’t like us is flat out IGNORANT.
I’ve had an idea for a while… I think we need to have energy bonds, like we used to have war bonds. These bonds should be used to buy stock in alternative energy sources like windmills. If you own enough bonds than your energy would be free. Any excess and you recieve profits. Easy enough right?
we can do it as soon as we learn to put our cans, bottles, plastic and trash in the right containers.
The Pickens Plan seems to make sense. I know he’s heavliy invested into it, but I just hope it wouldn’t shut out smaller producers of renewable energy. Ideally, the more locally energy can be produced, especially wind, solar, and tide, the better.
One thing will make us energy independent: money. As you say, we can convert coal into gasoline, or even more easily, into diesel. Germany used this method during WWII when they were cut off from external oil supplies. We can use nuclear for electricity as France has done so well. 80% of their electricity comes from nuclear power. We can start that today, right now. All it takes is money. People have to be willing to pay more for their energy, or the government has to force us to pay more. We are a free market economy, however, and the free market is going to go for the lowest price sources of energy. That is foreign oil.
Energy Independence is a ridiculous idea. The U.S. can have energy independence whenever we want. It’s just a matter of how much we are willing to pay. When we can purchase crude, natural gas, and gasoline on the world market cheaper than we can produce it at home, that is what we will do.
In time rising demands coupled with the depletion of cheap to mine fields will force us to become more of an energy producer. The U.S. is currently the third largest producer of oil behind only Saudi and Russia. So we are already a major player.
We still have vast untapped resources, offshore oil, shale oil, the North Slope, plus our immense coal supplies.
Improvements in technology will make wind and solar more affordable, but right now they are not.
The last thing we need is for the government to be micro-managing our energy supplies. That will cause shortages and drive up prices.
The world is awash in energy resources, people who say we are running out of energy have not thought this through.
I’m all for alternative energy ie solar, wind, nuclear. Problem is we don’t have the tech to make any of those possible in the near future. We need to drill to buy us time. Basically we need to do anything possible to stop sending billions of dollars to countries that hate us to but oil.
You might achieve independence by cutting back on fuel use very dramatically.
USA is already producer #3 in the world. It follows after Saudi Arabia and Russia who are almost tied as top producers.
The difference is that USA burns an astounding amount of oil.
USA imports much more oil than it produces.
It is not just gasoline or diesel that oil is used for. Oil is also used for plastics and synthetic rubbers, agricultural fertilizers and as the bases of an entire chemical industry.
Marvin the Martians Idea that thare are vast oceans of oul under the USA is simply and sadly wrong.
The determining factor is not throwing more money down the oil wells either.
You reach a point quickly where it starts to cost one barrel of oil down the well to bring one barrel of oil out.
That is why nobody is interested in the Bakken Shale oil deposit in North Dakota.