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re: Obama's Farewell Address and what you will remember him for.
Posted on 1/12/17 at 2:45 pm to Papplesbeast
Posted on 1/12/17 at 2:45 pm to Papplesbeast
If we're going to have a world with industry and irrational consumerism, we should have more planning involved -- to be clear, this wouldn't be nationalism as gov't shouldn't exist as it exists. Big topic. Seemingly contradicting. Won't be able to explain it here.
If people are really concerned with getting off foreign oil dependency, the answer isn't more US oil -- the answer is decentralizing the energy industry. If you understand the beginnings of the oil industry and the criminal activity to make oil the primary energy product and push out better alternatives, you'd see how easy it would be to greatly reduce our oil usage.
Another angle, people complain about foreign oil dependency but don't want to understand how important the Petro Dollar is to the US economy. Most people don't know that we force other nations to buy/sell oil in US Dollars, which obviously has a huge impact on our economy.
If people are really concerned with getting off foreign oil dependency, the answer isn't more US oil -- the answer is decentralizing the energy industry. If you understand the beginnings of the oil industry and the criminal activity to make oil the primary energy product and push out better alternatives, you'd see how easy it would be to greatly reduce our oil usage.
Another angle, people complain about foreign oil dependency but don't want to understand how important the Petro Dollar is to the US economy. Most people don't know that we force other nations to buy/sell oil in US Dollars, which obviously has a huge impact on our economy.
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Posted on 1/12/17 at 3:52 pm to Sleeping Tiger
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If people are really concerned with getting off foreign oil dependency, the answer isn't more US oil -- the answer is decentralizing the energy industry.
Bingo.
Posted on 1/12/17 at 4:16 pm to Sleeping Tiger
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If people are really concerned with getting off foreign oil dependency, the answer isn't more US oil -- the answer is decentralizing the energy industry.
What are your recommendations for this? I'm an all over the above energy guy. I think the only thing we can really do long term is expand our nuclear capabilities, and the regulations and capital costs have almost completely squeezing out private capital in the US. Wind farms are solid technology. Solar is not the great thing everyone thinks it is, at least not yet, but it's better than nothing and I don't oppose investments in it. I think the nationalizing of oil companies is one of the worst things we've ever done as humans beings, and the criminal activity related to controlling this vital resource is this is seen all through the insane corruption in Latin America.
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