Symbolism over Substance.
It's time that we develop hybrid electric cars that are viable and affordable, and build Nuclear Plants to create the electricity to run them.
I'm all for saving the Earth, but I think Global Warming is much more hype then substance.
The Polar caps on Mars are melting, and satellites orbiting 22,000 miles above the Earth in the Clarke belt are showing correlating temperature increases.
The Sun doesn't burn at one constant temperature, and thus we have warming and cooling and have for Millions of years and will for Millions more.
Also, we have plenty of oil here domestically. It's time that we drop the "NIMBY" attitude, and to start tapping our domestic resources and tell the extortionists in the Middle East where they can go.
If they don't like it, we can help them on their way getting there.
Between electric cars, hybrids, and domestic drilling and building nuclear plants, we can become 100% energy independent.
I don't want to turn this into a political thread, but it's insane to leave the Billions of barrels of untapped resources we have here because of a minority of environmental fanatics, and to not build nuclear plants to create electricity.
Despite Chernobyl, Nuclear energy is safe. The Russians cut corners and Nuke plants are no longer built in that manner. They are safe and provide affordable electricity. Much of France has gone Nuclear and much of Europe is following their lead.
Meanwhile, the price of using foreign oil is going to kill our economy.
Look at ANWR - it's not the "Pristine" place that we keep hearing about, as the oil is literally seeping up thru the ground there, and the people there fully support it.
See the pic below to see how "Pristine" ANWR is:
Oil seeps to the surface of the tundra, evidence of what lies beneath. The U.S. Geological Survey estimates there could be between 3 billion and 12 billion barrels of economically recoverable oil.
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/photography/anwr/anwr2.htm
The oil is literally seeping up thru the ground as evidenced by the posted pic.
The MSM won't show you these pics. Why, I don't know. Maybe they have an agenda, maybe they are lazy, maybe they just copy and paste press releases nowadays instead of actually investigating and reporting.
Now, ANWR alone won't make us energy independent, but tapping those reserves, as well as other domestic exploration along with building nuclear plants to provide energy for hybrids is the logical way to go.
Or we can stay dependent on foreign oil, watch our economy tank as the prices continue to go up, cave in to the minority of environmental extremists who don't want us to do anything domestically and chase pie in the sky, non-viable technologies that aren't practical.
That would be insanity.
Domestic drilling, plus Nuclear power to power hybrids is the way to go.
We can also explore Hydrogen power as well.
Or we can turn off the lights for an hour in a futile "feel good" exercise that "raises awareness" but does absolutely nothing.
