Can We solve it?

Posted on September 20, 2008 by billmanzi

The new “we can solve it” ad. Maybe we can solve it, but not if we keep listening to the oil apologists who say that we must keep shipping billions of dollars overseas to hostile nations because that is what the “free market” dictates. What is left out of the oil industry and Republican bromides is that OPEC is a cartel that has in fact subverted the “free market”. The governments of the oil exporting nations have in many cases nationalized energy production and exports because they wish to subvert the market and leave the American consumer stuck with billions of dollars of additional costs. Our governments answer? Ask the Saudi’s to ramp up production. Invest in renewables? Why bother. Let the governments of hostile nations, like Chavez in Venezuela and the Iranians get rich off of our citizens, and continue to do nothing. We need to be building renewable sources of energy now to fend off the disaster at our door. And it should be clear to anyone who understands markets that if the international community saw a real effort to create renewables by the United States the price of oil would likely sink. Yes we can impact the price of oil right now by getting serious about renewables. Build, baby build! (Wind Turbines)

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2 Responses to Can We solve it?

  1. Jules Gordon says:
    September 20, 2008 at 8:18 pm

    Your Honor,

    Once again you are dead wrong. You cannot prove that renewable energy is just around the corner to save us from the oil bad guys. I congratulate you on recognizing that a Cartel is not a free market institution.

    Your opinion from above: “And it should be clear to anyone who understands markets that if the international community saw a real effort to create renewable s by the United States the price of oil would likely sink. Yes we can impact the price of oil right now by getting serious about renewables. Build, baby build! (Wind Turbines).

    I also understand the same people who would drop the price on oil because we are developing renewables (which we have TALKED incessantly about for 30 years )would also drop oil prices if they thought we were exploring for domestic supplies of oil. Wait! they already have.

    All these renewables you are praising are years away from being implemented. Wind has technical limits and the infrastructure is not in place to distribute it. Environmentalists are already all over this for noise, killing bird, being ugly, etc.

    We have large supplies of oil that the Democratic Party is keeping protected. Why? I do not know. Right now the price of oil while falling on per barrel price to below $100 the gas pump price is still up there.

    The oil infrastructure is in place. But we must increase refining capacity and Drill, Drill, Drill anywhere the oil is.

    Drill Here Drill now.

    PS I have saved a TV program called “Renewable Energy”. I would be happy to record it on a VHS tape and give it to you. It is a technical discussion of the subjet without the political rancor. Let me know.

    Jules

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  2. Jules Gordon says:
    September 22, 2008 at 9:19 am

    Your Honor,

    A summary of natural gas as a substitute.

    Equivaalent cost to oil: $1.96 per gallon.
    Trip distance: Approx 250 miles
    Cars: Honda GS. Only mfg model. Only 2000 made per year.

    Infrastructure: Miniscule.

    A way to go. Sorry T.Boone and Your Honor.

    Drill Now.

    Jules

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