Alternative Energy vs Oil Profits at Consumer Expense
Bush's Energy Proposal Assures Dependence on Foreign Oil, Boosts Oil Profits at Consumer Expense, and Endangers National, Homeland Security:
The energy policies the President proposed in his recent speech on alternative energy are inadequate, will swell America’s oil dependence on the increasingly hostile and unstable Middle East, continues to create peak profits at the expense of consumers and endanger America’s national and homeland security.
Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., chairwoman of the Senate Energy and Environment Committee, called Bush's new climate strategy "worse than doing nothing ... the height of irresponsibility."
The President’s proposed policy protects the giant and wasteful motor vehicle aftermarket and excessive oil profits from conservation and renewable fuels for decades. It focuses on distant-future technologies to deal with today’s urgent oil supply needs and agricultural fuels that often consume more depletable energy to produce than the new fuel contains. This leaves the near and mid-term future to oil profiteering arising form controlled supplies, shortages, supply disruptions and the expected dangerous peaking of world oil (Peak OiI)
The United States holds less than 3% of world oil reserves, the volatile Middle East holds 50% and controls 61% via the OPEC cartel.
Bush's proposal fails to: provide for a transition to abundant, domestic, renewable energy; it fails to level the energy playing field and equalize tax breaks, subsidies, and policies between depletable fuels and renewables; it fails to provide transportation funds for building infrastructure to make renewable fuels easily and conveniently available to motorists and it chooses war over law to allocate oil during shortages arising from the central issue of this century: the peaking of world oil.
Domestic renewable energy is abundant. Solar energy alone could meet world energy demand by using less than one percent of land currently used for agriculture. Renewable energy holds the potential to power a future world populated with 10 billion people and do so with ease.
The President’s energy proposals are inadequate to deal with rising fuel prices and cripple prosperity as it drains the pockets of consumers. As competition for oil security intensifies due to the rapidly expanding economies of India and China, (over one-third of the world’s population), oil shortages are inevitable. These shortages give oil rich nations the power to chose which nations will get adequate energy supplies and prosper and which will have oil shortfalls, recessions and hardships -- unless we act now to conserve and replace oil with domestic, renewable energy to give us the energy independence our freedoms depends on.
No matter how much taxpayers fork over for military efforts in countries with oil reserves and no matter how much the profits of giant oil companies are subsidized it will not make more oil and will not provide American energy independence and economic security, but it will sacrifice our moral standing and self respect.
Bill Clinton: How to create a TRILLION dollar industry!
The above video is of an interview with B.Clinton when he was running for president the first time. While he was right in most of what he said, and had alot of good ideas, he did nothing in his 8 years in office to promote alternative energy or enact meaningful alternative energy policies. Why? For the reasons even he himself admits: MONEY, and corporate lobbiest.
Hillary Clinton talks a good game on alternative energy, as does all other the other presidential canidates. But it seems unlikely to me that they will follow thru with their plans. How can they, while they're still (in effect) on the pay roll of the oil companies, auto industry, and utility suppliers.
Our elected government officials have always, and will continue, to vote in favor of big oil, auto industry, major utility suppliers, and corporate business over America's national security, America's economy, American jobs etc. because they are getting rich by enacting legislation and policies in favor of corporate america and to hell with the American people.
