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Originally Posted by Pleasurepays
when did i say more oil was a long term solution?
seriously man, are you people fucking retarded or what? we do have lots of oil in the US that is totally untapped.
ethanol barely yields more energy than it costs to produce. ethanol from sugar (brazil) is a totally different crop than corn (US) and yields far more energy. so your "solution" isn't a solution.. short term or long term. the fact that we are using it at all right now is driving up food prices. just like geothermal energy from fucking volcanos we don't have isn't a long term or short term solution, since 80% of our population isn't living on top of a volcano (yeah, your example was idiotic at best)
the US is where it is because people are fucking retards in this country. because its became a nation of idiots that caters to the lowest common denominator... and where ignorance, stupidity and emotion continue to triumph over reason and simple economics (like the mandatory use of corn based ethanol)
while you fucking morons are crying about "doing something".... i was simply pointing out that we CAN do something. we have massive oil reserves in the US. but while you fucked in the head morons are crying about everything and busy making lists of reasons we can't use the most practical and feasible means to solve these issues in the short term, the economy will continue to suffer, food prices will continue to rise and people will suffer because you think the oil companies should stop dead in their tracks and produce a car that runs on butterflies and happiness as a solution... and you're just totally baffled as to why it isn't happening.
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ha ha ha.. You want to have it both ways don't you.. You blame the "liberals" for not letting the oil companies drill for more and yet you say you know that oil isn't the long term solutions.. Just how the hell do you think you get those oil companies to work on alternate energy sources? You FORCE them... How many instances in history have you seen corporations do what's best for a country and it's citizens all on their own as opposed to being forced to do it. They, like everyone else, take the path of least resistance... So unless you mandate things, they won't find ways to make it profitable. Force them, and they will or they'll die.. Just like it's said around here all the time, adapt or die.
Did I say corn ethanol? No.. put down your pipe.. Did I say go all geothermal? no.. again, put down your pipe since you're just making shit up so you can make your little ego feel better when it's pointed out what an idiot you are... It's going to take a lot of different energy sources that are home grown... My entire point was that these little countries had the balls to actually do something as opposed to the country that's supposed to lead the world in everything. And here's a little eye opener for you since you seem to just spout shit off without many facts. First off, geothermal does not require volcanoes.. Secondly, MIT did a report about geothermal in the US.. When they only take into account the stored energy 10km below the surface, the amount of thermal energy there is so large that it can be considered sustainable and that even if it was used to supply ALL of the primary energy consumed in the US, it would only be using 10% of what's available. When an area "dries" up, you leave it for 100 years and can come back and tap it again.. And that's just with todays technology. Over the next number of years, the US is set to close down 90GW of energy producing nuclear and coal plants. Their esimates are that you can build enough geothermal plants to generate 100GW of energy for less than one zero emissions coal plant. But the path of least resistance and the one that will have lots of lobbiest money behind it will most likely be coal. Another losing proposition since it's not sustainable either.
You're really a bitter man aren't you.. What's wrong? Does it make you mad when no one thinks you're as brilliant as you think you are? All you ever post about is how everyone else is a moron and don't take responsibilty for their actions.. But you clearly are all about "me" which is only about taking responsibility for yourself and no one else.. Which is exactly the attitude that's got the US in the position it's currently in.. It has nothing to do with all your fellow citzens, it has to do with the "me me me" attitude which is what you actually exhibit, just in a different way.
Bottom line... It would take years and billions of dollars (much of which would end up being leeched from the public) for that other oil to be put into production.. It's also going to take years for alternate energies... So where should that money and effort be put? More dumped into the stop gap efforts of more oil? or long term solutions. I'd rather see it put into long term solutions as that makes more logical and economic sense.