Comments on: Do-little ideas no cure for oil addiction http://newmexicoindependent.com/1253/do-little-ideas-no-cure-for-oil-addiction New Mexico news and politics Fri, 02 Sep 2011 18:15:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: geraldbyrnes http://newmexicoindependent.com/1253/do-little-ideas-no-cure-for-oil-addiction#comment-899 geraldbyrnes Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://70.32.121.217/?p=1253#comment-899 I only hope it doesn't take that long. I only hope it doesn’t take that long.

]]> By: joma http://newmexicoindependent.com/1253/do-little-ideas-no-cure-for-oil-addiction#comment-900 joma Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://70.32.121.217/?p=1253#comment-900 To put gas prices in perspective, I Googled current prices in London to see what the Brits are up against. Currently, they are paying 112.9 pence per liter which works out to $8.33 per gallon, more than twice the rate we pay! This is a global issue and the best scientific and political minds need to work on it. Screaming at each other won't cut it. If you construct a matrix of potential energy sources and the special interest groups who, for their own purposes, vehemently oppose development, it would be a dismal piece of paper. Everyone seems to be opposed to everything. Even if we could pave over Arizona and western New Mexico with enough solar farms to power the US and free up oil and gas for transportation, we'd have groups screaming about "no transmission lines through MY back yard". Even wind turbines "kill birds, are unsightly, and made noise that upsets wildlife". The only way out will be when politicians stop listening (and taking money from) to the vocal special interests and do what is right for the country. Maybe that will start to happen when we start paying $8.00 a gallon for gas too. To put gas prices in perspective, I Googled current prices in London to see what the Brits are up against. Currently, they are paying 112.9 pence per liter which works out to $8.33 per gallon, more than twice the rate we pay!

This is a global issue and the best scientific and political minds need to work on it. Screaming at each other won’t cut it.

If you construct a matrix of potential energy sources and the special interest groups who, for their own purposes, vehemently oppose development, it would be a dismal piece of paper. Everyone seems to be opposed to everything. Even if we could pave over Arizona and western New Mexico with enough solar farms to power the US and free up oil and gas for transportation, we’d have groups screaming about “no transmission lines through MY back yard”. Even wind turbines “kill birds, are unsightly, and made noise that upsets wildlife”.

The only way out will be when politicians stop listening (and taking money from) to the vocal special interests and do what is right for the country. Maybe that will start to happen when we start paying $8.00 a gallon for gas too.

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