Just Politics

[Mariner*]

Agreed. Nothing is going to happen overnight,granted.

But no project is ever going to get off it's feet unless it's actually started.

I don't think fossil fuels will ever be totally 100% replaced, but, they can be augmented with different energy sources to spread chunks of the pie around and split up the divisions of dependency, so that we are not absolutely and completely relying on just one from of energy production.

Nuclear Energy:
Because of what happen in Fukushima Japan is tripped off the line against Nuclear power and understandably so, but, understand what happened to them although tragic, it was preventable and therefore human error was involved starting with the implementation of building it at the convergence of three fault lines and putting the backup generators in the basement where they were the first to be flooded out in tsunami.
Hindsight is 20/20, we say pretty stupid, yes it was and now we all are paying a pretty high price for it is radioactive contamination that will circulate the entire globe and infect every living thing, to varying amounts.

But is this a reason to 100% STOP Nuclear power generation (Maybe for Japan) but not for the rest of the world and I think it can be regulated and expanded on to make it a hell of a lot safer than it is today starting with the NRC and their perpetual actions extending the permits on plants that need to be shut down "AND" at the same time giving and approving building permits for new plants to be built replacing the decommissioned ones combined with building reprocessing plants for spent nuclear fuel.

Crude Oil:
We've Finally started actually producing viable Hybrid designs in cars that actually work!
Should there be a mandate for you to buy and drive one?
No, you can still keep right on driving whatever you want, but, I'm glad to see the option available for those that wish to purchase one and to be more efficient with the current ones in production that aren't hybrids, but get better gas mileage to use the fuel more efficiently.

Natural Gas:
It's a good idea, it burns cleaner and there is a abundant supply of it.
The bad proponents are how we are going about performing that action.
Not all, but some of the wells are polluting water aquifers in the process and poisoning wells on multiple properties drawing water off this same aquifer.
I don't agree with what the Bush administration did in allowing the oil companies to get off scott free in not having anything to do with the "Clean Water Act" This waver should never have been given.
I understand why they did it, because they wanted to bypass any litigation that might spring up from what they were about to start in massive fracking procedures.
I get that.
But, at what cost are we obtaining this energy source?
Is it really worth it considering the long term effects of fracking and the chemical pollution byproducts that it creates?

Coal:
Clean Coal? There is no such thing, period.
We've been burning coal in mass since the industrial revolution, come on... can't we try to start weaning ourselves off this stuff? China puts several coal burning power plants into production every month to service their energy needs, and they are finding out, it is some nasty shit.

I've got a lot of stuff to do today, got to go, I hope you appreciate this post because I took some precious time out of my already hectic day to type it and share my thoughts with you today.

Regards,
Mariner*