Going to war over oil and pretending it's for human rights issues is deceptive and underhand at best. With the resurces available in the US they could develop cleaner and more readily available fuel sources and corner a new global market
2006-07-17 07:42:06 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
It's not a matter of inventing realistic alternatives. They are already here and have been for as long as a hundred years. The matter that needs attention is the strangle hold the petroleum companies have on the government because of the money they can funnel into campaigns, plus (Use your imagination here.) as well as on a society which is unwilling to give up its luxuries and is willing only to pay more and more for something that could be replaced at half the cost.
The alternatives are electricity, hydrogen, methanol, and ethanol. Henry Ford designed the Model T to run on gas, kerosene, or ethanol. The first electric vehicles were designed and built in the mid Eighteen Hundreds. The knowledge, the science, and the technology are all there for any change the American buying public will demand. But Americans are spoiled and blind beyond belief. The attitude is one of, "Don't bother me, I don't understand that. Besides, why should I care?"
So what are we to do about it? I'm building a still to make ethanol. I'm already raising a substantial part of my food and I'm also selling it to my neighbors in order to get away from the commercial food system and the trucking industry which consumes hundreds of millions of gallons of diesel fuel daily delivering groceries to the stores everyone buys from.
Now, what are going to do about it?
2006-07-17 07:48:29 · answer #1 · answered by quietwalker 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
First...AMEN....we really should be taking care of the oil addition. People driving "status-mobils" that guzzle gas, while living hours from where they work on a daily basis. Stupid, stupid, stupid.
ALSO....why the H%&& should the oil companies have to explain why they are making money with oil! It ISN'T their job to find other sources of energy. What a load. There is an answer to this and $$$ to be made by it.
As for the war...yes, oil is an issue, but WHY WASN'T HUMAN RIGHTS a BIGGER ISSUE? Why are other countries perfectly happy to know that mass murder is occuring? That international law and treaties are being broken? That women are being raped by the government and the country being pillaged by the dictator.
There are concentration camps in existance AS WE SPEAK!
SHAME on the WORLD!!!
2006-07-17 07:53:17 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oil is the most efficient energy source right now. When you add in the cost of the war it isn't. The problem is that there is no tax on oil based energy to account for the public cost of ensuring it continues to flow. This 'externalization' of a major cost component to produce oil is why it is relatively cheap compared to other sources. All that notwithstanding, when the price of oil gets high enough, alternatives will be developed... as the market demands.
2006-07-17 07:50:22 · answer #3 · answered by Brand X 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are too many cars and too much industry in the US that would have to be retrofitted to whatever the new fuel is to make it worthwhile. If the government really wanted to do something about it, they would have, but refining oil makes too much money for the US to change anything.
Despite what you may think, alternative energies are difficult and require years of research. Oil has been so cheap for so long and now our economy is dependent on it. Unless the government wants to do something about it, nothing will happen (btw, at least half of the US disagrees with our own government on this, but we don't have the means to change our own energy usage habits).
2006-07-17 07:50:15 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Both Ford and General Motors have invested heavily in alternative fuels... not readily available to consumers because of distribution and a complete and total lack of retail outlets.
Learn more at www.onlyGM.com/FlexFuel
Live Green.. Go Yellow
2006-07-17 07:53:34 · answer #5 · answered by Tee 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We went to war over oil? That is strange concidering only 20% of all the oil we use comes from the middle east and most of that from Saudi Arabia. Iraq oil never really mattered to us. Our oil comes from mostly South America and the Gulf of Mexico.
2006-07-17 07:56:20 · answer #6 · answered by JFra472449 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
WE DO have lots of alternatives to oil!!!
The problems is that the oil companies spend BILLIONS of dollars making sure that those alternatives are not sucessful at getting to the consumer. The alternative fuel companies just don't have enough cash to fight the oil companies' corruption.
2006-07-17 07:48:18 · answer #7 · answered by MagPookie 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because it hasn't hit us in the wallet yet. Now that it's getting closer to a price that will make dent in the household budget we might start to get some alternatives out there. But since you don't like us all that much you can't have it!
2006-07-17 07:48:17 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's already been developed but it's being held back by greedy governments around the world.
2006-07-17 07:47:13 · answer #9 · answered by bigscary_monster 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its already been invented but OPEC are keeping it buried so they can get every last penny out of us poor suckers.
2006-07-17 07:49:52 · answer #10 · answered by Andrew M 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋