Yes.uziq wrote:
does the wind stop blowing at night? and you didn't address the point at all. you're making out that to try and change US energy policy would be tantamount to telling everyone to throw their xboxes away and start wearing hemp. whilst america's over-consumption is a national embarrassment, i don't see what it has to do with energy production.
I did.
Changing US energy policy is a non-starter. What do you want us to do? Raise gasoline taxes? Transportation (including air travel) consumes a whopping 12% of our energy. So you've pissed off a bunch of people and made them poorer for next to no gain.
Ok, so you go after power plants, which consume 50% of our energy. A lot of our plants are old coal fired plants that are on their way out anyway, so they're replaced with natural gas, which is cleaner and more efficient, but also more expensive per BTU. Except now we have environmentalists pushing for fracking bans and protesting pipelines. So maybe nuclear? But that has it's own well-established NIMBYisms. So where do we go then? We build more solar plants that only work really well at noon local time? We build a bunch of wind turbines (which also have their own NIMBYisms)? It's easier to just stick with the status quo than fight all the special interests and idiots.
Then you have the same environmentalists pushing for electric cars to be widely adopted. Where is the electricity to charge the batteries going to come from?
I'm sorry uzi, but energy policy is a helluva lot easier in a geographically small country like Germany or the UK.
"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat
-Frederick Bastiat
