Christian Democrats in the United States
Global Issues - Global WarmingThe GOP strategy of burying heads in the sand obviously isn't working and alienates the United States from the rest of the world. We believe Al Gore states the problem well, but proposes no meaningful solution. Even if we switched to 100% renewable energy right now, even if we stopped using fire altogether, the global carbon cycle would still be charged with hundreds of billions of tons more than it has ever seen, and the arctic tundra is about to melt and rot, increasing that far more. We must direct immense research effort now to develop energy-efficient means of extracting carbon from the atmosphere without creating a carbonate oxygen sink. This is the only feasible way to reverse the immediate crisis of global warming.
Subscribe to Posts [Atom]oil glut is a long term economic attack
Right now OPEC has "failed" to convince investors that the supply glut will go away, resulting in a tremendous, almost unbelievable drop in oil and gasoline prices.The medium-term result of this is two-fold: A) with the threatened economy, investments in renewable energy sources will seem like a bad bet, and B) we will become dependent again on the foreign sources of oil, when we were on the verge of breaking the habit.
This is an economic attack strategy over a period of time that economists and investors do not have the foresight to see. When OPEC decides the time is right, when enough companies in our fledgling green fuel industries have failed because they cannot compete with the oil surplus prices, then they will simply stop producing.
It's also a further step in the war against polar ice, because it will encourage us to continue our massive injection of carbon dioxide into the global ecosystem.
Don't give up on the long-term necessity of renewable fuel just because you can save a few bucks at the pump now.
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