Wind Is Not Oil.
Posted by rrrocks on August 18, 2008
The United States uses 1.5 percent of all oil to fuel electricity and heat homes. That is 350,000 Barrels of oil per day out of 20.5 million.
Build all the Wind, solar, Geothermal, Tidal, Hydro, Nuk a Lar plants you want. IT WILL NOT AFFECT OIL PRICES IN THE LEAST.
OIL FUELS TRANSPORATION. PERIOD. What will lower fuel prices is either lower demand or more Oil. Drilling for oil is the only way to get more oil on the market.
Do not let the Democrats convince you that Wind mills are going to solve our energy problems. Right now 98.5 percent of all electricity is fueled by coal, gas, hydro, wind, Nuk a Lar. 1.5 percent is fueled by Oil. Building a zillion wind turbines and solar panels is not going to bring the price of oil down more then a couple cents.
That said. I absolutely advocate Green. I want all the renewables that we can bring online. The GOP are Liars if they advocate we cannot do green. It is not the oil companies fault that oil is this high. It is world demand and a congress that has taken away the best drilling spots because the oil industry was careless and allowed lots of oil spillage during their offshore drilling days.
However it is now a national security interest. These huge oil prices have caused gasoline to shoot up, food prices to shoot up and the prices of manufactured goods to shoot up because oil is so highly priced. Democrats want to punish the Oil companies and yet it is oil that drives our economy. Their intense desire to punish the oil companies means they want to punish, Winnebago, Harley Davidson, Ford, GM, Chrysler, Evinrude, Air Stream………….Holiday Inn, Marriott, Days Inn, The travel industry, Airlines, parts dealerships, car washes, car dealerships………..They want to put millions of Americans out of work.
They say well but the new green industry will put those people back to work in new green jobs. Oh will those in Detroit move to Wyoming to service windmills? Will those working on GM assembly lines move to Arizona to install solar panels? I think not. This is nothing more then a massive redistribution of wealth by the democratic party with only the interest of the Greenies in their own party.
People who have not thought through very well the repercussions of their stance. Going green is good. But not at the expense of the solvency of the American dream.
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