energy policy
Required Reading for this post:
Bush's Energy Policy
So our energy situation can be improved by "... a series of energy initiatives, including more oil refineries and nuclear plants, to combat the problem..." That's right, oil, something the Bush's just happen to own a bit of money it is the answer- more oil. It's not going to, like, run out or anything. And nuclear power? We can just keep burying the waste in Nevada - who cares about that. I'm sure it won't leak or cause any future problems for the environment or the people that have to live in it. We watched a documentary in my HS French class about how the French just accepted nuclear power - it was no big deal. I'm not educated enough about it to really know what's going to happen, but that's sort of the point - no one know what's going to happen, but we do know it's potential.
Has anyone on Mr. Bush's staff heard of ethanol? Or hydraulic power? Or solar power? My guess is that they have, and those things are bad for the current oil economy so we're ignoring them. Ethanol comes from corn. If you've ever driven across the midwest, you've seen a bit of corn. We can grow and regrow it. Unlike oil. My limited understanding is that it burns cleaner - less harm to the environment and is more efficient that our current fuel. (Here's the Wikipedia entry on ethanol).
There are so many promising, apparently easy answers out there. Why doesn't our administration even act like they are considering them?
Bush's Energy Policy
So our energy situation can be improved by "... a series of energy initiatives, including more oil refineries and nuclear plants, to combat the problem..." That's right, oil, something the Bush's just happen to own a bit of money it is the answer- more oil. It's not going to, like, run out or anything. And nuclear power? We can just keep burying the waste in Nevada - who cares about that. I'm sure it won't leak or cause any future problems for the environment or the people that have to live in it. We watched a documentary in my HS French class about how the French just accepted nuclear power - it was no big deal. I'm not educated enough about it to really know what's going to happen, but that's sort of the point - no one know what's going to happen, but we do know it's potential.
Has anyone on Mr. Bush's staff heard of ethanol? Or hydraulic power? Or solar power? My guess is that they have, and those things are bad for the current oil economy so we're ignoring them. Ethanol comes from corn. If you've ever driven across the midwest, you've seen a bit of corn. We can grow and regrow it. Unlike oil. My limited understanding is that it burns cleaner - less harm to the environment and is more efficient that our current fuel. (Here's the Wikipedia entry on ethanol).
There are so many promising, apparently easy answers out there. Why doesn't our administration even act like they are considering them?
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