George Rebane
Every once in a while we hear a peep about huge reserves of natural gas opening up because of new extraction technologies like ‘fracking’. The US and Canada have reserves that will serve us for over a century. It is simply political will or its lack that keeps us from reducing, or even completely eliminating our dependence on foreign oil.
Natural gas is clean and plentiful, and its extraction is free of the concerns connected with pulling coal and oil out of the ground. A good survey article on all this is ‘Wonderfuel: Welcome to the age of unconventional gas’ published in the New Scientist.
As our new administration is attempting to push through its so-called energy bill (Kerry/Lieberman), the next milestone on the road to socialism, you will not hear much about this or other reasonable alternatives to impact federal energy policy. The compliant media is fulfilling its established role by offering no discussion of this as November approaches. It’s still the ‘we gotta do something!’, and the only alternative presented to the sheeple is Obama’s cap and tax. Not only that, but we must impose this government cancer on ourselves even faster than we had Obamacare shoved up our … . ‘It’s now or never.’
Well, never sounds good to me. Kerry/Lieberman will do nothing to address real energy issues, but it will deepen our financial/national crisis by unilaterally hamstringing the US economy. And without a vibrant economy, nothing will get done in this or any other area of public policy.
Specifically, Obama’s rush to ruin ignores some very important factors that counsel taking a more deliberate route to a national energy policy –
• There is no impending shortage of fossil fuels that limit our economic growth;
• Cleaner fossil fuels are available and abundant to bridge any reasonable transition to alternative sources of energy;
• The proposed ‘energy’ legislation has no impact on the worldwide generation of greenhouse gases, but portends devastation on the US economy;
• Man-made global warming ranges from doubtful to a politically motivated myth laced with fraud whose debate has been suppressed by governments, and their bought and paid science lackeys – it is time to allow free and open debate on the science climate change;
• Market driven renewable energy extraction and generation technologies will evolve rapidly over the near-term in beneficial ways that are least visible to stagnant government bureaucracies.
In sum, this is no time to rush pell-mell into imposing short-sighted constraints just because big government progressives are afraid of losing control of Congress in November. Reasoned and reasonable alternatives exist (more here).
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