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• Report this Comment On August 14, 2008, at 7:19 PM, Brettze wrote:

  Oil will not be gone so soon...Why? We are now on a crash course to conserve oil. Car makers had shut down practically all guzzler plants or convert them into fuel sipper plants. There will be no return to old days again ever. Sure oil is finite but we will be able to meet demand in the long run as long as we maintain our sustainable efforts to conserve oil. Our new cars will go twice or thrice as far on every gallon of gasoline and this will push the doomsday much further into the future if not next century or two. The real problem with oil is that we just cannot drill and refine as fast as our guzzlers burn it up. This is what it is all about. This is insane lifesytle that has to stop forever!

• Report this Comment On August 14, 2008, at 7:30 PM, Brettze wrote:

  This is no different to the horse and buggy era of past long gone. As you know that our population kept on mulitplying and we have more and more horses and also more manure on the streets. We had to invent something called automobiles to solve the manure issue. This is just a repeat of history. Now we have too much drilling going on and we have to reinvent automobiles to reduce that as well as air pollution (manure in the air so to speak). We have to cut down on that. We will not run out of something new to invent. never! Life just goes on. Now coal is a whole different story, but coal is talking about clean fuel technology as if we already have that in big numbers. This is not true yet. It is all talk and no action. So much second guessing and all that. It is a fair bet that alternate energy will not displace coal and natural gas and other sources by a big part for a really long time.As soon as our governement start coming to its senses that it simply cannot finance alterneate energy forever as it wll grow so big to keep supporitng for long. The coal players had no choice but to wait until things all boils over first before they can be sure to spend money on clean coal technology that will cost a lot of money. The question lies on which is cheaper... clean coal technology or alternate energy with governemnt help. You ask yourself that. It would be foolish to spend money on clean coal technology while alternate energy keep on getting free money to compete against clean coal technology, right?

• Report this Comment On August 14, 2008, at 7:41 PM, Brettze wrote:

  I dont think that clean coal techmology would ever be developed as long as our government keep on championing alternate energy like solar and wind power. Maybe our governemnt will simply force utilites to adopt clean coal technology on top of reduced sulfur emissions already enforced. Clean coal technology will eliminate carbon dioxide emissions and will be so costly and it may mean utilites will probably abandon coal and turn to alternate energy. Alternate energy sounds so good but there will be a big issue with land use as there will be so much real estate required to site those sprawling alternate energy techologies. Nobvody is making up his mind in any big way yet. It is still a confusing time now. Someone got to stand up and make a hard choice and stick to it... I personally doubt that alternate energy will ever grow big.

  It is possible that the biggest portion of our energy policy will be simply energy conservation. We are still far from maixmizing the potential out of energy conservation. There is so much we can do to reduce our energy consumption through conservation efforts . We are still not doing much of that yet... We are just getting confused about the need to grow our economy on continual growth in our energy consumption and we are still doubtful about the economical benefits coming out of energy conservation if they come in a big way. We dont see energy conservation as a wonderful way to create job and weatlth . this is the trouble with energy conservation and we are still content to ignore that .

• Report this Comment On August 14, 2008, at 7:56 PM, Brettze wrote:

  America use 25% of world energy output. The emerging world is growing and is competiiting for the same pie that America is enjoying. Millions are buying first cars in their lifetimes and are thrilled about it. Americans already have tenth or more cars in their liffetimes No matter how hard we drill for oil, the world will take more of the oil from the market. We will never drill our way to oil independence ever again. Lets face it. We are forced to look at other options like coal, nuclear, solar, wind , etc. Coal is the easiest answer until we are concerned about carbon dioxide and climate change. We became wishy washy on our energy policies. Energy conservation would be a wonderful way to buy us plenty of time to figure out which way to go. This is why I am stressing energy conservation as the first line on our energy policy. It is the fastest way to become energy independent to a degree. No political squabble at all as everyone will agree to any practical new energy saving idea whether we like it or not. it is much smoother sailing there . Solar and wind power will encounter political problems stemming chiefly from real estate issues as they are too bulky to install. Energy conservation has almost no issues to make beef with at all..We can easly cut our energy conservation by 50% in a short order. So why delay on that? We seem to be more interested in creating jobs in solar and wind power than to conserve energy in any form and shape! this is the real trouble!

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