PV Gap

Charlene Said:

Will China takeover the US as Obama refuses to use oil & drives up the price of energy here via Wind/Solar?

We Answered:

Huh? Everyone in the world is buying less oil, including China and Japan. OPEC is reducing production to help increase the price of oil right now.

You sound like another of these folks that think there is an endless supply and we should not do anything to develop alternative sources.

Rafael Said:

at what level of the oil price do alternative sources of energy (ie solar, wind etc) become viable?

We Answered:

Since there aren't many electric vehicles on the road and most electricity is produced by burning coal (cheaper than oil) instead of oil it's a hard comparison. Since wind has minimal maintenance and no fuel costs after installation it is already a cost effective way of producing power in some areas of high wind reliability. Solar has almost no maintenance but a high initial cost so it will need more mass production before it achieves equality. Bio fuels costs range greatly and also depend on what costs you include. Are you including military intervention in the middle east? Do you include the degradation of vital farmland to produce fuels instead of food? Are you talking ethanol from corn, sugar cane or sorghum, diesel from soybeans, diesel from waste fryer oil, methanol from wood,...?

Francisco Said:

Should we blame liberals for the ever increasing price of energy?

We Answered:

Yes. They oppose drilling anywhere in America. They oppose construction of new refineries in America (none have been built for over 30 years.) They oppose construction of any new nuclear power plants. They oppose mining shale oil. They oppose mining coal and refining it into petroleum products. They even oppose any R & D for the futuristic proposal to build solar power satellites in Earth orbit, beam the energy down via microwaves, and feed the energy into the electric grid.

It is very, very clear that they APPROVE of high gas prices. Lieberman's latest proposal would raise them even higher. It is even more clear from all of the above that they want to destroy the American economy, because they are wrongly convinced that America is destroying "the planet."

So, by all means, blame liberals and environmentalists for ever increasing energy prices. They're getting exactly what they want.