Post by jgaffney on Jun 25, 2008 12:39:23 GMT -5
Saunterelle sez...
Saunterelle, we have responded to your points in the other forums, but I will repeat some of the main points here:
In a different forum, I posed the hypothetical: If a hydrogen-powered car was available tomorrow for $60,000, would you buy one? If you were able to afford a $60,000 hydrogen powered car, where would you refuel it? What would you do with your $60,000 hydrogen-powered car between now and when refueling stations were widely available? How would you help those of us that cannot afford to upgrade our automobile now?
"since we've hit peak oil, oil is no longer cheap, and it keeps us beholden to the Middle East, lets pour money into new technologies that will break our dependence on oil." This is something we haven't done. The Republican plan (drill, drill, drill) just prolongs our problem."
Saunterelle, we have responded to your points in the other forums, but I will repeat some of the main points here:
- There is no consensus among those who know that we have hit "peak oil." New discoveries, new technology and new processing methods continue to expand the available pool of petroleum products in the world.
- The reason that we are dependent on Middle East oil is because we refuse to tap the resources that we have right here in our own country. The sheiks are laughing all the way to the bank.
- Yes, we are continually developing new technologies that will "break our dependence on oil." However, those technologies have not yet come to market, and it will be some time before they do. What is the Democrat plan to keep our petroleum-based economy humming along until the day when the new technologies are widely available?
- The Republican plan, succintly stated as, "Drill Here, Drill Now" is a reasonable way to make sure that our petroleum-based economy has the resources it needs to keep humming along until such time in the future as the alternative energy sources that you talk about are so widely available that they supplant petroleum in our economy.
In a different forum, I posed the hypothetical: If a hydrogen-powered car was available tomorrow for $60,000, would you buy one? If you were able to afford a $60,000 hydrogen powered car, where would you refuel it? What would you do with your $60,000 hydrogen-powered car between now and when refueling stations were widely available? How would you help those of us that cannot afford to upgrade our automobile now?
