Ignorance About Energy

Alan Caruba has another excellent article on the state of the energy industry and American energy policy.

...all kinds of Green snake oil salesmen will leap in to tell you that the US should be developing wind or solar power alternatives. Neither of these is viable, nor make the slightest sense at all, either in terms of the minuscule amount of energy they can produce, nor the costs involved. Both are largely sustained by government grants of one sort or another. Forget about hydrogen power, it is a myth.

We need to understand that we cannot "conserve" our way to energy use. Untapped energy resources is energy wasted. If this nation needs oil, it must encourage access to it. If this nation needs coal, it must encourage access to it. If we need natural gas, we need to encourage access to it. We are not doing this. Instead, a vast matrix of "environmental" laws make it difficult, costly, and often impossible to do this. What´s left? Hydroelectric power and the Greens are trying to shut that down as well!

Yes, there are ways to reduce energy consumption, but the issue is not consumption so much as it is being able to have energy when you need it! Energy literally fuels the engine of the American economy. And your home or apartment. Your workplace. And your car. Et cetera.

The United States of America, however, has enough coal for the next 250 years and, by some estimates, a 100-year supply of oil and natural gas. Around the world, new reserves are found every year.

If you remain ignorant about how energy is generated, you risk finding yourself without any. And most Americans are totally ignorant on the subject.

Required reading!