Conservative estimates of the spending on the war in iraq total over 500 billion dollars. This would be enough money to supply energy to 60 million homes if spent on solar or wind energy sources. Or, the money could have been invested in new energy research, battery technology, and electric cars, and yielded even greater energy independence. So why aren't these things being done?
2007-10-10 12:43:53 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Environment ➔ Green Living
Because our president is a "war president" who doesn't care about unexciting things like saving the Earth.
2007-10-14 10:33:09 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
This government has to know the benefits of wind and solar powers as compared to electric/fossil fueled power. I seriously still don't know why we ever involved ourselves in Iraq, but the money keeps going there. There are so many issues that need to be addressed in addition to the energy problem. We are using our resources faster than they can be replenished, if they even can be. Is our government hiding something? Does it know something we don't about this energy crisis? What about poverty or hunger? Why do we bomb other countries and then rebuild them? Why can't we put it towards the things that are really bothering people? I just don't understand it at all. Maybe I am uninformed or something, but it just doesn't make sense. This is probably just a rant and I didn't answer your question. Sorry.
2007-10-10 16:06:01 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because you will find out that the longer you live that government makes its choices based upon greed. If they did do the right thing and do as you say, how would they proffit from it? So many people that own the facilities that give us fuel or electricity is probably paying them off under the table to keep their mouth shut. Does a politician usually do what he says he's gonna do? Or do they suppress technology for their own greed? Who's to say, who is and isn't but, with all of the corruption we have in politics, I wouldn't doubt it one bit. We also have had the technolgy to send a man to the moon since the 60's many, many times & have explored space continually. There has and always be money for that because, they are probably searching for another planet to screw up. Instead we have some of the smartest people on earth wasting their abilities just to say we got there, or did it first. Its really funny when you hear that they are ''looking for more intelligent life'' out there !!!!..... If you was an alien monitoring the planet, would you respond, or just watch the planet as if it was just another episode of ''Jackass''???
2007-10-10 16:22:09 · answer #3 · answered by jack_black_91 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
the area you printed would not paintings. Secondly, wind and water and photo voltaic and geothermal and methane, all are loose substances of skill. you do not favor to purchase coal, oil, or plutonium. third, those substances very last continually. Dams that FDR equipped contained in the Nineteen Nineteen Forties are nevertheless in use as we talk, and skill the final public of Washington, Oregon, Nevada, Tennessee, Kentucky, and many different states. back, those human beings get seriously more low priced skill, and the authorities would not ought to purchase oil. Fourth, progression those structures creates jobs, because the final public of agencies that care about those initiatives, are American. Drilling oil, is going to furnish jobs to Russians or Saudis. also, in places like Canada, forests should be cleared, and the probabilities of an Exxon Valdez oil spill are extreme. there is not any oil in a photo voltaic farm! And fifth, those initiatives pay themselves off. So what if a windmill farm costs $10 million? it is going to receives a fee off in below 2 years! and how a tactics can $10 million of oil get us? We use almost 20 million barrels of oil an afternoon. it truly is over $one hundred a barrel.
2016-10-08 23:58:30 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its because all people care about is being on top of everybody else, controlling the world. George Bush just wants the natural gas and crude oil from iraq to be theirs so they can sell it at a higher price.
2007-10-10 15:19:54 · answer #5 · answered by this is me! 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because green energy and green living is unpatriotic. Why the hell can't you hippies understand that we need to fight terrorism by supplying human right violating countries (like Saudi Arabia) with weapons so our oil companies can make more money in order to pay for our military to protect their pipelines in middle eastern coutries that have been constantly bombed for the past 6 years because they didn't want to let ExxonMobile have their oil because they are freedom loving hippies like all of you who complain and protest when their fascist "democratic" government starts taking their rights away because they need to control you in order to force you to buy oil from ExxonMobile so they can gain power and control the whole world so we can become their slaves.
2007-10-10 15:00:34 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Everybody wonders why we don't spend more money on their favorite thing. Bill Gates spent a billion dollars on hospitals and schools for poor countries. Why didn't he spend it on solar panels for all Microsoft factories and employee homes? Because he didn't want to.
2007-10-10 14:31:45 · answer #7 · answered by campbelp2002 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Bush Oil
2007-10-10 12:52:06 · answer #8 · answered by fionabtoo 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
How would the big energy company's pay for there nice big homes and SUV,s. Seems like nobody cares about them anymore.
2007-10-10 13:27:25 · answer #9 · answered by dad 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Here in NE Pa.wind turbines are being put up at an alarming rate.It is great to see.
2007-10-10 12:47:46 · answer #10 · answered by Kev L 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋