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Contingency plans are always in place, that doesn't mean we plan to act upon them. As a contingency plan, I can believe what you say. I just don't believe it was a scenario any actually tried to make happen.
Cost comparison of energy sources is not a hard thing to find data for.
I have looked through a LOT of such data and they all point to the same trends and general analysis.
.3New industries require lots of capital that private entrepreneurs may not have. They require co-ordinated investments in related industries that individual entrepreneurs cannot organise by themselves. They generate demonstration effects and technological spillovers that raise social returns way above private incentives. All these are valid reasons for governments to give private investors a nudge
Is it really all that much to ask for, to get us started on a road that we know we will be on, even if we do nothing?
Given that costs of switching over will arguably likely be greater in the future, isn't the more dangerous decision to do nothing?
Contingency plans are always in place, that doesn't mean we plan to act upon them. As a contingency plan, I can believe what you say. I just don't believe it was a scenario any actually tried to make happen.
Yes, but he was happy to let everyone think he was a threat.
Parker...
You have become a true tin hat wearer. There are others here I'm sure you'll get along with fine.
Then let renewable energy have the same level of tax breaks. Otherwise it acts just like a subsidy.
If oil development gets tax breaks, and renewables don't, does that distort their relative costs?
... says the guy who thinks global warming science is a conspiracy to grab power by "leftists".
Renewables do have tax breaks. My understanding is that the only thing that energy companies get that can be considered subsidies are for ethanol, and for renewables.
So that's a reason to ignore reason?
You're showing up to talk about the assignment without having done your homework.
If you dont know about US and Saddam, there's still alot you dont kow about this world, sir.
So we spend trillions of American dollars (UP TO FOUR TRILLION TOTAL EST.)and thousands of American lives BECAUSE SADDAM WAS POSTURING?
Your not even close. Read some of the books on the Bush admin. Even the conservative members of his admin have written on it.
Wild Cobra, your answers have been limited to one line responses with no substance...you are flailing away helplessly with personal attacks... dismissal is your greatest tool. Why dont the facts come to your aid here? The answer is obvious...
Why should I waste my time compiling more of a dialog when all I see is stupid rantings from you guys? No matter what I come up with, you find something to counter it with. I could in turn do the same thing. The internet if full of truth and lies. The problem is, you don't see the facts, just the numbers dealing with consensus.
So what do your historical revisionists say then. Please fill me in, because I'm sure it's different than the world events I remember in the 70's and 80's.
Anyone figure out when the oil will run out and the world die? We know Random thinks it will be before his grandkid can drive.
anybody recognize this dude? anybody?
revisionist my ass.
It doesnt have to run out. Supply just has to fail to meet demand. That creates sky-high oil/gas/food/consumer goods/services prices. Which it is already beginning to do.
You need to wrap your head around the problem...its not as easy as 1-2-3.
That is Saddam Hussein. He was president of Iraq until 2003. He lead a interesting but destructive life. He was found guilty of crimes against humanity. He murdered, tortured, raped his own people. His life is well do ented. You should look him up.anybody recognize this dude? anybody?
And our esteemed Donny Rumsfeld shaking hands with a criminal, rapist, torturer.
I have and you are right. 1-2-3.
Randoms solutions is to raise prices now as if we have no oil left but more important he thinks it will run out before his grandkid will drive. Scary, scary stuff!
WTF. No way!
Guess who this is? This one is a tough one. This political leader is bowing down to the oil king himself and shaking his hand!
tell us about the oil business, jackie. har har
Asia/China's industrialization and increasing appe e is the cause of the rising prices. We invade middle east countries to ensure we wont be left out in the cold, with no available/affordable supply in the future.
Its not the end of oil that will kill us. we wont even make it that far. It will be the end of EASY OIL that will shock our economy into a heart attack. The easy oil is the cheap stuff we are using now. the more difficult the oil is to find/extract/refine, the higher those prices will soar. while countries scramble to feed thier economies like ten kids sucking furiously though straws to get the last bits of the milkshake from the cup under little johnnys bed.
High prices with more industrialization could spell serious conflict, astronomical prices, and crumbling economies in the very near term. like before Randoms grandkids can drive.
then everyone will wish they had done something to plan for the future, wish they hadnt let big oil (who will have cashed out of the game by then) lead the entire country to its doom. and when we lay at the mercy of the red army, you will understand that inflated prices to curb use were well intentioned.
puppets, doing the bidding of thier contributors/citizens. citezens who would use as much as they can get thier hands on. contributors who would profit on every drop. both of the above officials.WTF. No way!
Guess who this is? This one is a tough one. This political leader is bowing down to the oil king himself and shaking his hand!
funny... there is no face on this one.
That's what makes it so hard, right. It's Obama.
jackie would rather see full on tongue......like the last president. har har
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