How would you end America's dependence on foreign oil?

Question

Correct Spelling Please...No abbreviations....Try to be more creative than just Ethanol, think.....

Answer 1

Build closed circuit pollution free hydroelectric power
Build new electric powered roads for electric cars and trucks

millions of high wage jobs building power plants
millions more jobs building new electric powered roads
thousands of jobs building electric cars and trucks NO batteries needed this way the road has the electricity built in it

overabundant 100% clean electric power 1,000,000 mega watts from a single power plant
1000 times more power than the largest nuke plant(930 mega watts plant Volgtel in Ga.) more than Fusion!

This power plant has been all over the gov Clinton, Gore, Newt, Sam Nun, DOE
Clinton said"I'm to busy moving the counrty forward"
Gore said" good luck, I'm glad to see someone else is working on our energy problem"
Newt "promised his full support" if I sold out to Ga. power .01c on the dollar to invent and patent this
Sam was to busy with armed services
I have letters from these crumbs saying these things

Mason Wiggins of the Science,Space, and Technolgy Subcommitty a guy who knows tech,Newts energy guy said" this appears to be the secret we've been looking for" and took it to friends at the DOE. DOEmanagement found out this came in the back door and threw out pollution free power. Mailed it back to me in an open enevlope with pages missing. Said send it to NIST. NIST said 5 years to get back to the DOE 5 more to decide to fund this; only $40,000 available to any 1 applicant

Bush's people do not even return calls or answer emails during energy summit

Ga power wanted to buy me out for.01c on the dollar
Southern Cal. Edison wanted .01c on the dollar
Power Industry Consultants said revise your figure to 2% of my investment; they offered the most! 2%?

Ga to Cal. all attempts for gov funding got nothing!
$50,000 in DC trips 1000's of calls and emails
All the utility engineers and not a single hole in this to be found ever!
Patented! made no difference!

400 page tech manual showing how and what size to buld these anywhere; got my patent allowed on the spot after 45 minute phone cal with my patent attorney and patent office examiner because my patent attorney could answer every question examiner put to him from my 400 page tech manual.

Only utility patent of it's kind ever!

Utilites spend millions to patent even small improvements in existing power plants.
Patent rights should be worth many times what a small improvement is worth!

A first generation baby plant of 1000 mega watts generates $1billion per year of power in Cal. market
Second generation plants can make over 1,000,000 mega watts
Overabundant 100% clean electric power to end conservation and Arab oil
.05c per kilo watt electric power super cheap power all the power anything anywhere could ever use

Could export electric power to the world; clean US made electric power

Gov wants us poor and working so much we can't get in their hair for being screw ups

dems and reps have all the power so they bear all the blame
vote! vote for anyone thats not a dem or rep

2 nations and a US state pay not tax thier residents
Kuwait pays $58,000 y no rent, utilities, phone, hospital, income tax, gas is cheap free for motorcycles
Dubia pays
Alaska pays
I know it's OIL! Oil is just 1 of thousands of commodities. With all the thousands of commodities in your state why aren't you paid? With all the feds resources why don't they pay 50 times what Alaska pays?

pollititions lie, cheat, steal, back stab. corkscrew, dirty deal, murder, run the debt to the moon, raise taxes, int rates, give our money to foreigners that hate us, allow foreign co to cheat us out taxes they owe, send our jobs overseas, waste our money like no tommorrow, on yahoo 1.4 bil in bogus hurricane claims, deny money to renewable energy, MORE??????????

Answer 2

Ethanol is the the easiest and most practical solution though. I get more creative further down, but it is a renewable resource that we already have an abundance of. Electricity currently does not have the range or power required to be practical. Most Hybrid vehicles can't go more than 30 to 45 miles away from home before needing a recharge and switch to fuel. Electric cars do not have the speed nor weight to be safe around other conventional vehicles, and most people cannot afford to buy a new car right now. Most vehicles can take Ethanol now with little or no changes to the engine. Diesel engines can currently run on used vegatable oil from McDonalds once it has been filtered with no changes to the engine, and it will get the same milage. Straight Alcohol might be a good solution too. Burning garbage is too much of a pollutant (like gasoline). I think they should try experimenting with yeast. It produces alcohol and is a renewable resource. It must be good for something. And there must be a way to use a combination of air and water to run a vehicle. Put the water under enough pressure, and it heats up and creates steam. Works in a volcano!

Answer 3

To be honest, I have HEARD of the ethanol fuel, but I have yet to see where it is available to purchase (like gas stations.) The people jumping straight to the alaska idea, yes, alaskan oil would help us out, but if I am not mistaken (correct me if I am wrong) but the wells in alaska would only support America for roughly 10 years (maybe less) with the rate that we drive.

First true step is to be smarter about driving. Stop buying the huge gas guzzlers that get less that 10 miles per gallon. Second, get oil companies to work on alternative fuels, and actually make them available to the public. Over six years ago at a science convention I saw a car that ran on hydrogen gas. The 'exhaust' from the engine was water. Now I know hydrogen is highly explosive, and albeit that I was young and didn't understand everything in their presentation, it seemed like they had managed to prevent the fuel tank from exploding during a crash (again, I don't remember all the details, but it was a good car.)

Answer 4

Several things must be done. There is no magic bullet, nor is the solution a quick one.

1. Eliminate federal regulations that restrict retrieving natural resources from our own lands and off-shore waters.
2. Lift taxes on domestic refining operations and put tariffs in place for importing refined products from outside the US (this will result in more oil refineries being built here).
3. Place U.S. dollar on a gold and/or silver standard. The dollar will collapse as it presently is if Iran and other oil countries begin demanding payment in Euros, which it is reported that they are getting ready to do. Our whole economy will collapse unless we untie the dollar from oil.
4. Offer prizes, rewards, incentives to both individuals and companies that will invent, develop, produce and market alternative fuels and the machines that would use them.
5. Elect Constitution Party candidates to office who want to return us to constitutional government and give us relief from the corrupt two-party system which is destroying our economy and doing nothing substantive about problems such as this one.

Answer 5

Drill on Ca & Fl coasts (I'll abbreviate if I want to) plus Alaska reserve. If these states wish to refuse drilling for asthetic reasons, then they shoud pay additional cost to states that are willing to provide for the rest of the country. They get a choice between their fear of losing tourism dollars or paying those dollars in addditional gas usage taxes. Use those dollars to fund alternative energy production. Primarily, I'd like to see govt loans/assistance in establishing ethanol production distilliaries (several shut down breweries that are perfect).

Answer 6

Help Iran go Nuclear, and watch the fireworks

My solution is at least acheiveable within the next 20 years :)

There isn't going to be enough oil to supply greedy americans, and the alternatives are just a far off dream. so get used to the idea people

Answer 7

Have a $1.00 per gallon gas tax until all Auto Companies or Others converted every gasoline pump in the US to Ethanol, or combination, was the answer that john Stewart's guest, Tom Friedman gave last night,,, or close,,, I was sleepy...............
Personally I agree with Robert Redford about Renewable Energy Sources,,,, FREE,,, Solar,, Wind,,, Water,,,, our NATURAL RESOURCES................. China leads in SOLAR,, Germany in WIND....
The USA needs to not just catch up but LEAD
Cheney's Energy Gang including "Kenny Boy" Ken Lay,, all should be exposed,,,, the SECRET meetings in 2001,, to form Americas Energy Policies,,,,, disturbing............
zharantan,,, you go girl........

Answer 8

This is NOT an answer, but why does everyone want to drill Alaska? Yes, prices would go down momentarily, but what oil are we going to use if prices in the future go 5 times worse?

Answer 9

biodiesel

What is biodiesel?
Biodiesel is the name of a clean burning alternative fuel, produced from domestic, renewable resources. Biodiesel contains no petroleum, but it can be blended at any level with petroleum diesel to create a biodiesel blend. It can be used in compression-ignition (diesel) engines with little or no modifications. Biodiesel is simple to use, biodegradable, nontoxic, and essentially free of sulfur and aromatics.


Why should I use biodiesel?
Biodiesel is better for the environment because it is made from renewable resources and has lower emissions compared to petroleum diesel. It is less toxic than table salt and biodegrades as fast as sugar. Since it is made in the USA from renewable resources such as soybeans, its use decreases our dependence on foreign oil and contributes to our own economy.

Answer 10

Annex Venezuela, Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Syria. Then we would depend on domestic oil. Ha ha.

Answer 11

Start building new oil refinerys, drill for oil in the gulf, and in Alaska.