Everyone knows that gas prices are too high. The thing that most people aren't thinking about is whose fault it is. Politicians! Not George Bush or the republicans, that's too easy! It’s all of them! Sorry to bust your bubble if you're naive enough to believe in your congressional rep or your senator. There are several steps to resolving the issue. The simple one is to stop using oil and use renewable forms of energy. The problem of course is that they haven’t figured out how to charge us for solar energy. If we can power the rover on mars with solar energy surely being as close as we are to the sun we could do it here with our vehicles. But forget science for now, let’s think more short term.
The short term solution is simple. All natural resources belong to the people. Take water for instance. Water is managed by public utilities (no profit)! So it’s simple, the government should seize all holdings of the oil companies as is done when local governments claim eminent domain (I’m not usually for government control of anything but when there’s a profit to be had no one can be trusted.), this of course would require a one time buyout of existing shareholders (just to be fair) and then we could all share in the energy without massive profits from oil, coal, wind, hydro-electric and natural gas. By making energy a non profit deal it would drastically reduce the current price.
Additionally, since we would not sell our oil, we would not have to worry about global demand. This of course would take short term concessions by the environmentalists to allow drilling in Alaska ad off shore, but this would be temporary as we pass laws that would require the government to produce solar, hydrogen, and natural gas products to replace oil based fuels. The end result would be clean not for profit energy. As the technology progresses for solar and hydrogen energy emissions would be eliminated.
What bothers me is that, I’m not that smart and I can think of this. So why haven’t our best and brightest come up with a similar proposal? I don’t believe they are not smart enough, they just don’t want to, Democrats and Republicans alike. Republicans side with big oil, while democrats are steadily trying to create their own cash machine through the “Go Green” initiatives.
The reason behind this are numerous, everything from reducing our interests in foreign oil producing regions to, giving the U.S. a competitive advantage in the global marketplace, which will give us once again the political clout to set an example for the rest of the world and get the to follow suit. If we don’t show how you can reasonably “Go Green” without killing your economy, you’ll never get other countries to follow. A special note to the environmentalists, if you don’t get the rest of the world to go along you will not be able to reduce green house gases; you won’t even make a dent.
The U.S. population is dwindling since it’s too expensive to raise and educate kids all the yuppies are stopping at 1 or 2 kids. All the people are being born overseas and they don’t care about green house gases. Besides, many scientists already know and most realize that green house gases are a natural occurring effect. Unless you figure out how to turn off volcanoes and other geothermal vents along with stopping wildfires that even if all mankind all over the world cease all emission now, you’re only eliminating about 3% of green house gas emissions. Many believe that this would not be enough to slow the greenhouse effect. I guess only time will tell. The real question is will the U.S. still be a superpower by the time we find out.
Just a thought – Until next time, I’m Christian Paul. Find me on Facebook.
Posted by Anonymous (not verified) on June 18, 2008 - 2:33am.
Gasoline Prices
Everyone knows that gas prices are too high. The thing that most people aren't thinking about is whose fault it is. Politicians! Not George Bush or the republicans, that's too easy! It’s all of them! Sorry to bust your bubble if you're naive enough to believe in your congressional rep or your senator. There are several steps to resolving the issue. The simple one is to stop using oil and use renewable forms of energy. The problem of course is that they haven’t figured out how to charge us for solar energy. If we can power the rover on mars with solar energy surely being as close as we are to the sun we could do it here with our vehicles. But forget science for now, let’s think more short term.
The short term solution is simple. All natural resources belong to the people. Take water for instance. Water is managed by public utilities (no profit)! So it’s simple, the government should seize all holdings of the oil companies as is done when local governments claim eminent domain (I’m not usually for government control of anything but when there’s a profit to be had no one can be trusted.), this of course would require a one time buyout of existing shareholders (just to be fair) and then we could all share in the energy without massive profits from oil, coal, wind, hydro-electric and natural gas. By making energy a non profit deal it would drastically reduce the current price.
Additionally, since we would not sell our oil, we would not have to worry about global demand. This of course would take short term concessions by the environmentalists to allow drilling in Alaska ad off shore, but this would be temporary as we pass laws that would require the government to produce solar, hydrogen, and natural gas products to replace oil based fuels. The end result would be clean not for profit energy. As the technology progresses for solar and hydrogen energy emissions would be eliminated.
What bothers me is that, I’m not that smart and I can think of this. So why haven’t our best and brightest come up with a similar proposal? I don’t believe they are not smart enough, they just don’t want to, Democrats and Republicans alike. Republicans side with big oil, while democrats are steadily trying to create their own cash machine through the “Go Green” initiatives.
The reason behind this are numerous, everything from reducing our interests in foreign oil producing regions to, giving the U.S. a competitive advantage in the global marketplace, which will give us once again the political clout to set an example for the rest of the world and get the to follow suit. If we don’t show how you can reasonably “Go Green” without killing your economy, you’ll never get other countries to follow. A special note to the environmentalists, if you don’t get the rest of the world to go along you will not be able to reduce green house gases; you won’t even make a dent.
The U.S. population is dwindling since it’s too expensive to raise and educate kids all the yuppies are stopping at 1 or 2 kids. All the people are being born overseas and they don’t care about green house gases. Besides, many scientists already know and most realize that green house gases are a natural occurring effect. Unless you figure out how to turn off volcanoes and other geothermal vents along with stopping wildfires that even if all mankind all over the world cease all emission now, you’re only eliminating about 3% of green house gas emissions. Many believe that this would not be enough to slow the greenhouse effect. I guess only time will tell. The real question is will the U.S. still be a superpower by the time we find out.
Just a thought – Until next time, I’m Christian Paul. Find me on Facebook.