So I am to understand that you are against using cleaner energy sources?
I am so not getting into that discussion right now, but I guess I am.
Let's just say I am completely for using cleaner energy sources, as long as they actually provide energy. In order to replace the current energy levels in America today, we'd need solar panels covering the area from D.C. to Las Vegas.
I'm much rather for nuclear energy, as it is the cleanest, safest, most reliable, most efficient, and most powerful form of energy there is, no matter what Jane Fonda says.
Now, I could get out all of the charts and graphs, but it doesn't matter. Bottom line is, no amount of ethanol would be able to sufficiently replace gasoline, and gasoline isn't even bad at all for the environment in the first place. Obviously, peak oil discussions are full of speculation and conjecture because of the agendas of the participants, but we aren't going to be seeing any shortages anytime soon.
Really, the "effects" of our current sources of energy are nothing like what Al Gore would have us believe. The steps taken to remove things like DDT are actually more harmful than just allowing DDT to be used without intervention, and most of the so-called "effects" are all part of nature's cycle, like the opening and retracting of the ozone hole, warm and cold periods. I mean, just thirty years ago the same greens were proclaiming the woes of Global COOLING! Just because the pendulum has swung in the other direction doesn't mean we have a catastrophe on our hands, especially when the overall temperature has barely increased a fraction of a degree. You only get a hockey stick graph when your Y-axis goes by 0.01 of a degree. I mean, it was hotter in the 1200's to 1400's on average than what it is now, and you didn't see people in the Dark Ages scooting around in gas guzzlers and building smokestacks.
It's really all a bunch of baloney to get America to lower it's energy level so much that the soon-to-be-in-power-and-trusted greens can dictate everything you do, from transportation to toilet usage. See, greens don't actually want America to replace it's energy sources, only to find new less efficient ones so that the overall energy level lowers so they can control you. Not to be some sort of conspiracy theorist, but if you look at the things the panelists in Kyoto said, read the books of Paul Ehrlich, or even read some of the interviews of Al Gore, they put their objective in plain sight.
I can't believe I just wrote that entire essay, but that's what I've gathered from my research, so that's how I see it (in hugely condensed form).
