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response to JVA's post missing the point
You're dreaming of a fantasy land if you think wind mills are going to ever come close to replacing oil. Try to get a grip on how much oil is needed to run everyones homes, business, transportation, public facilities, etc.... Right now the only technology that could possibly replace a good portion of it is nuclear. France runs on 80% nuclear, and exports to other counties. Once you really understand that then maybe you will be able to come around to being sensible about it. It's expected that the US has enough oil within it's own borders to take care of many generations to come. Even if we find a good replacement today, it's going to take decades to implement it's use. We can't survive without it. That's just a dirty fact. Anyone that can't deal with that reality doesn't have what it takes to be our president. That's so simple and basic to me. It drives me crazy watching to the left make an issue of this for nothing more than a power grab. You have become beholdent to the enviromentalist which is a feel good group with a damaging philosophy.
The War: We're not fighting the Iragi's anymore. That lasted about 2 weeks. That's why it's not a war against Iraq. We're fighting Al Queda and Iranian insurgents. They're terrorist that want to take Iraq for themselves. Admitedly we didn't expect it as it played out. But that's what we're up against in the war against terrorist. Iraq is so important to the terrorist that since we overthrew Saddam their world wide effort is focused on it. We didn't start this war but we can finish it with a united effort. Although politicians on the left in their desire for their own power grab have become invested in the current admin. loosing. Even with such strong oposition from the left we've made good progress, but you can't stop until the job is done or we'll go back the beginning when terrorist could basicly strike anywhere at will. These people want to wipe Isreal off the map and kill all of us too. Do you really think a policy of talking with them is going to work. They're laughing when they hear that.
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I certainly didn't mean to suggest that wind power would completely replace oil by itself. Rather, I was pointing out the fact that alternative energy sources exist. Oil is certainly very important (for now). It must be obvious to all informed parties that there are inherent flaws in its use and that it is time to look to the future. Can't use oil forever. Also, you seem to be ignoring that not having enough oil is not the only big issue here. My issue with oil is that it's terrible for the planet and it's putting terrible people in powerful positions.
Further, you're talking about it taking decades to implement alternative energy sources. Maybe so, but everyone knows that even if we started raping the land even further we wouldn't even get a drop o' the sweet stuff for about a decade (hell, even McCain knows that). So your quick fix is not so quick. Even a commie pinko like me knows that we can't just push a button and switch to different energy sources; we could look into improving public transportation though.
I actually really like nuclear. I wish it didn't have such a bad rap, but I understand its cons.
Jeez man, lay of the Fox news feed. We're not fighting Iraqis anymore? Really?? I know wikipedia is pretty flawed but give this a look (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraqi_insurgency). We are fighting against Iraqis. Al Quaeda wasn't there until we were. You seem to be a very intelligent person; I cannot believe that you actually think we're only fighting Iranians. Al-Quaeda in Iraq is made up of a lot of Iraqis. "A policy of talking with them"? Yeah, diplomacy is fuckin' wacko. Let's nuke 'em. I agree that we can't leave Iraq a battlezone, but I think it's important to consider the idea that the presence of US military is the main reason the battlezone exists.
Posted on July 4, 2008 — by JVA
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I agree that if we did come up with alternative types of fuel it would take quite a long time to implement. I think people need to realize that the oil companies have lobbyists on capital hill in droves to sway the votes on any legislation that would move us toward alternative fuel. Take the solar energy field: This is energy produced by the sun. Well, the oil men cannot harness the sun, so we see that that is a technology that is virtually untapped because those greedy dogs have no way of monopolizing it. If they could come up with a way of creating a monopoly as they did satellite/cable industry, they would be all over it.
We are dependent on foreign oil because Exxon, BP, Shell and a host of other Oil companies have vested interest in keeping the price of oil high. The higher the price of oil goes, the higher their profits soar. Didn’t anybody look to see how many billions they made in profits last year and the year before? Even in the face of such over the top profits, hey were still crying all the way to the bank.
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