On 3/19/2012 6:19 AM, HeyBub wrote:
Mark wrote:
If you don't think the price of gasoline would drop like a stone
after a speech such as that, you're nuts.

lets say there is a lot more oil in ANWAR and Canada and the Gulf.

Should we just burn through those as fast as we can now to keep the
price low now?

Yes. Definitely.


Or should we think of those as the reserve tank and save them for say
10 years from now when the rest of the world is really running low.

Solar and wind and other alternative energy is not going to ramp up as
fast as we all would want it too.. I think it might be a good idea
to keep some of the "good stuff" in reserve until the alternates are
workable.

As to "holding it in reserve," that's like the secretary who's in charge of
the supply cabinet saying "No, you can't have a pencil. There's only one
left. If I gave it to you, then I'd be out."


They physics of solar and wind do not and cannot supply our energy needs. It
would take a solar collector farm the size of the Los Angeles basin (~1200
sq miles) to supply the electrical needs of California. During the day. The
cost for materials and maintenance of such a contraption is almost
incalculable.

The good news is that the citizens of Los Angeles would be living in the
dark.

The only way to improve that situation is to move the orbit of the earth
closer to the sun. We cannot run this country off of sunbeams, or unicorns
on treadmills.


I wonder if we could burn sun dried Liberals for fuel? I know there's
not much substance to them but there are cultures that burn excrement
for fuel. ^_^

TDD