tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370534.post115499491740835084..comments2023-10-31T04:37:20.113-07:00Comments on Bloviating Zeppelin: Stand By: Gas Prices To INCREASEBloviating Zeppelinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01359816456769157176noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370534.post-1154997820992719252006-08-07T17:43:00.000-07:002006-08-07T17:43:00.000-07:00AJ: you are right. Oil is oil.There are the Canad...AJ: you are right. Oil is oil.<BR/><BR/>There are the Canadian oil sands and fields in Montana and various fields off the Fornicalia coast.<BR/><BR/>And you are Right. The Left does what it can to destroy whatever the Right proposes for alternative sources.<BR/><BR/>BZBloviating Zeppelinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01359816456769157176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370534.post-1154997261433540572006-08-07T17:34:00.000-07:002006-08-07T17:34:00.000-07:00Mr. Z - I have looked at the alternatives, they ar...Mr. Z - I have <A HREF="http://ajacksonian.blogspot.com/2006/04/popular-mechanics-and-jacksonian-party.html" REL="nofollow">looked at the alternatives</A>, they are not good for the terrestrial based long-term. For the short term of 30 years or so we can do all sorts of <A HREF="http://ajacksonian.blogspot.com/2006/07/nanotechnology-to-energy-rescue.html" REL="nofollow">funnish things</A> and tweak at the edges. That said we still need, desperately, a <A HREF="http://thejacksonianparty.blogspot.com/2006/04/energy-independence-policy_114433387741524154.html" REL="nofollow">long term energy policy</A> and a <A HREF="http://thejacksonianparty.blogspot.com/2006/04/jacksonian-party-stop-gap-energy.html" REL="nofollow">stop gap energy policy</A> for those fun 30 years or so.<BR/><BR/>I recommend investing heavily in the Canadian oil sands and opening up the continental shelf to exploration and drilling... as I laid out in the stop-gap plan, plus heavy investment in getting us off of these consumables and into a true renewable... <BR/><BR/>Any biomass solution makes us absolutely dependent upon agriculture for *fuel*. And requires high investment into the Nation's infrastructure. With the folks doing the proof of concept of balloon-to-orbit it is now time to start offering prizes to actually beam energy down to Earth and make a sustainable space-based infrastructure and get NASA out of the business.<BR/><BR/>It is pure idiocy to have destroyed our heavy lift capacity and gotten zilch in return. Criminal to have destroyed that because *we have needs on Earth for that money*. Uh-huh. And what did all that investment in poverty get us? More poverty! Instead of heavy industrial jobs for space. And NOW we can pay dearly for that oversight and at a far, far higher cost.<BR/><BR/>Thanks to the Left for that. Such nice folks to destroy the Nation's infrastructure by doing that. Now when we *need* a future resource independent of the Arab oil what do we have? Nada.<BR/><BR/>For *looking to the future* the Left sure does like to destroy the present.<BR/><BR/>Color me bitter... I am sure I can get to vituperative when I get some energy back... heh...A Jacksonianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07607888697879327120noreply@blogger.com