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Originally Posted by knot_e_lady  Great, Zack, are you volunteering your back yard to dump all that nuclear waste? | Perhaps we could outsource our nuke waste to France instead of outsourcing our jobs and economy to the rest of the world due to our high energy prices? http://www.ocrwm.doe.gov/factsheets/doeymp0411.shtml Quote:
Originally Posted by waitingtables I think we can start by closing the Enron loophole, because it won't matter what energy we end up using, the speculators will drive up the price of it. So that is the first move. That alone might show an immediate reduction in the price of oil and gasoline by 25% to possibly 50%. That isn't going to take us ten years to benefit from, like more drilling, more nuclear power plants and things like that, that have to be constructed before the benefits kick in. And one of McCain's right hand men is Phil Graham, who benefited greatly from the "Enron loophole". | I have no problem with checking to see if the speculators are jacking up prices on energy.
How about this, we will need oil for a few decades as we make some transition regardless where it comes from. Oil is traded in dollars and the weaker the dollar the more we pay for oil/energy. The more money we export to other nations buying oil, Canada, Mexico and Venezuela the less the dollar is worth. As a result of our exporting of dollars the price continues to spiral upward. Why not demand all our money is kept at home to help make the dollar stronger and the energy costs lower?
If we continue to increase energy prices we cannot even produce alternative competitively with the rest of the world... it will be cheaper to build and buy solar panels from China. Energy costs exports jobs... glass, cement, steel, fertilizer, bricks and the related economies fed by those producers cannot compete with the rest of the world with less expensive energy. Natural gas used for much of the above, home heating and electric production is very environmentally friendly but it costs over $12.00 a unit. Mexico and Canada offer this resource at lower prices Precio Mexico: Is a Disconnect from US Gas Prices Feasible? - Natural Gas, Latin America, Policy/Regulation, Prices, Trends, Market Market, Research, Size, Share, Trends, Analysis, Demand, Sales, CERA, e-Profile, energy, Yergin, Prize, oil, natural g resulting in exporting of jobs for the above mentioned sectors. American workers are competitive and efficient but cannot compete with low NG prices as a base for production in an area where cheaper labor and energy prices compete. |