Reply #13: Clean coal is still coal... [View All]

[Baby Snooks]

We shifted away from nuclear energy because of environmental concerns but also the realization that nuclear power allowed nuclear proliferation as we are seeing in Iran. Reality is that Iran will have lights. We may not.

We are not really industrious or inventive any more in this country. That is really the problem. Oil was simply too plentiful and too cheap. That is why we are too late to develop alternative energy. It should have been developed at least ten years ago. The major oil companies are developing it finally. That alone should tell you the reality of peak oil. But they are doing so too late.

To switch to coal at this point would prove disastrous and will. China has moved back to coal as has India.

Natural gas was the alternative. Russia has an abundance of it. The problem is transport. And we are responsible for that as well. We wanted to control that as well as the oil. So there is no major pipeline through Afghanistan. And there is no major pipeline in the Caspian Sea. Or even a reliable land line around the Caspian Sea.

Some have wondered why China did not build a pipeline of its own in partnership with Russia. The answer should be obvious. We would not be able to control it.

The Bushes and their "oilgarchy" speaks for itself. It has brought us to the brink of extinction with regard to climate change and offered us little solution in terms of alternative energy. They wanted to control it all. And still do. And even if this administration were to reverse course it would still be too late.

We can conserve. Some of us do. Some of us will. But China and India will not. And their only alternative energy is coal.

It will take draconian measures at this point and this president just simply will not do it. This president is not reversing course. And is still placing profit over public interest and greed over humanity.