Why did I come back??
Pixel Twist.. sorry about your car wreck... even if you are a small pain on a personal level, that sort of experience can be very traumatic. I'm not as staunch as Double 00. But then my abilities to empathize translates to the environment.
Raping the world and leaving it for dead is NOT how we should go about getting energy. Cheap energy should be a thing of the past. There is no and has never been cheap energy. It is an INVESTMENT.
The only reason why the energy of coal and oil is "cheap" is because they are mined with cheapness in mind. You might want to talk to some miners about the safety standards WV mines, or the dead soldiers in the Middle East, or the Horizon (heck BP has one of the worst safety records in the oil biz), or all the gas wells that have been blowing up in PA, OH, and along the shale belt. It's only "cheap" because the companies are shitting in our environment. Tepco is another example. (reactor #2 is in major trouble btw).
The reality, getting energy safely in a non-destructive manner costs money.. And that's everyones reality. Green energy is Cost heavy at the beginning. Sure green energy is NOT perfect... but investing in those technologies will only make them better.
Those other non-renewable sources are cost heavy from middle to end. But the non-renewables don't really pay the real costs... We do.. you and I in our health, OUR environmental health, OUR business health (as in the case of the gulf).
America has been raping 3rd world countries for decades now, and because the world in a
finite place the corporations that were once American have come to rape us.... I ask you to stop being their cheerleader!
I've said my peace Pixel Twist... i have a feeling there have been many much more brilliant people then I making brilliant counter arguments to yours. But perhaps the trauma of the accident has done more the eat the physical ear off.... perhaps the mental ear has been taken as well.
