Do you think the BP Oil Spill in the gulf will strengthen the demand for clean energy?
June 30, 2010
Do you think the American Public will begin loose its trust in oil fueled energy now that the oil crisis in the Gulf Mexico is being treated very inefficiently by the corporation responsible?
Shouldn’t your question be, When are the one’s with the "Superior Intellect" going to device a scenario for economic viability for clean energy.
Since the environments’ solution is always kill the 1st world economy rather than use their brains to device an economic solution, without them personally (Reference Al Gore) negating their environmental Impact, I’d expect a very distant solution.
Lets not forget that these same environmentalists force the deep water drilling, where solutions to problems were less well known.
When are we going to demand environmentalist acknowledge their part in the problem? Personally I try to combine the environment and the economy. The solution isn’t easy or cheep? One has to ask the question what is the general public (even the poor) willing to pay for with today’s dollars. This is a requirement for the entrepreneur to create a solution.
I’ve offered one to both sides of the aisle & to those here, but it acknowledges a backyard/rooftop solution doesn’t work, no one seems to be interested. The time was a few years ago when fuel cell powered vehicles were in the news. One has to think economics for the solution to become a reality.
Yes. I think most normal people are horrified to learn that Big Oil is completely ill-prepared to deal with any sort of environmental crisis whatsoever.
I think most sane people would expect a conglomerate of the magnitude and financial oomph of BP to most certainly have filed a reliable and responsible contingency plan BEFORE they were ever allowed to drill.
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Not Obama’s scam.
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Oil Spill in the gulf will strengthen the demand for competent presidents
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NO, americans have been saying for decades we need to get off of oil, we never bothered to do it why would we now?
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No. "Clean" energy needs to be effective before there’s a demand for it.
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Absolutely-How can it not?
Who would still be thinking that this is the best/only way to go at this point?
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Yes and safer equipment. Just too bad we had to wait for a spill big enough to create demand in the so called free market. I think big government should make the private companies use the best of the best before they start drilling, not wait for demand like a big spill.
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Nah. They’ll demand 300,000 more wells become gushers til we swim in the crap.
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The Corporation responsible has been doing a better job than the Federal Government. There are no clean energy sources that can take the place of oil.
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It will till the bill, comes clean energy is expensive so talking about it and doing it are two different things.
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Not if it costs more than current fuels. Economy has slowed so much costs are a main concern in the private sector. Transportation drives the private sector and there aren’t any alternatives for transporting goods.
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Typical lib thinking…I see what you don’t understand about economics could fill volumes. I could expound for hours but I can already see it would be pointless…lol
p.s. there is no current cost effective energy substitute for hydrocarbon fuel…it powers well over 90% of the world economy…you do the math.
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B.S. Econ (Cornell ’08)
No, just make the cost of gasoline and other petroleum products, skyrocket…I believe it would be economically impossible to abandon oil completely, for "green" or clean energy…
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I’m sure many people holler and scream to stop using oil right up until they can’t fill their cars with gas or grocery stores no longer have groceries or there are no more clothing items on the rack or bottled water and on and on. People don’t think past the end of their noses many times.
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DRILL BABY DRILL!!!!!!!!!! It better! We need both!
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Hopefully when the oil stops leaking the American people will not forget, as they usually do about things,and we will demand the changes necessary to stop using fossil fuels to generate energy and fund research that will replace them and clean energy will be a reality
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It will certainly increase the demand for clean energy. But please note… politicians will push for clean energy, they will claim it’s because the public demands it! But where are the cost figures on how much it will cost us? As usual, the government is saying “trust us, you’ll like it.” But when the bill comes due it won’t be their fault, it will be because we demanded it! How about we get a full discloser on the cost BEFORE we get the bill?
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I think it points out a major problem among people who are more concerned with jobs for that area than the survival of an ecosystem. Now that the problem is on their beaches, instead of a barely populated Alaska, or a foreign country, they may begin to see things a little differently.
We have been talking, and little else, about the need for a different fuel for forty years.
Very little has been done in practicality, I doubt this will make a difference unless we can stop acting like its all black or white, either you are for it or against it. We need to keep oil around, but work seriously on other affordable and safe ways of using energy. What other methods we have, like solar and wind, need to be made cheaper, one day, I’d like to see us have solar production of electricity in every home in the US, at a cost comparable to installing a conventional system, with storage facilities for rainy days.
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Shouldn’t your question be, When are the one’s with the "Superior Intellect" going to device a scenario for economic viability for clean energy.
Since the environments’ solution is always kill the 1st world economy rather than use their brains to device an economic solution, without them personally (Reference Al Gore) negating their environmental Impact, I’d expect a very distant solution.
Lets not forget that these same environmentalists force the deep water drilling, where solutions to problems were less well known.
When are we going to demand environmentalist acknowledge their part in the problem? Personally I try to combine the environment and the economy. The solution isn’t easy or cheep? One has to ask the question what is the general public (even the poor) willing to pay for with today’s dollars. This is a requirement for the entrepreneur to create a solution.
I’ve offered one to both sides of the aisle & to those here, but it acknowledges a backyard/rooftop solution doesn’t work, no one seems to be interested. The time was a few years ago when fuel cell powered vehicles were in the news. One has to think economics for the solution to become a reality.
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