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• Wednesday, June 18, 2008 03:26 PM

  Not a zero sum game lefties

  It appears the lefts argument in this is that they dont see this as a short term or silver bullet solution to our current energy problem - they are correct, but only slightly. No one is saying this is the magic formula, just why would you limit your own energy strategy to something as unproven and inefficient as alternative sources like solar or wind, when they have been around for decades and have not produced any evidence of becoming a baseload source? Why do you phrase the question, intellectually dishonestly I might add, as a zero sum game? Why would you not acknowledge that our economy will run on fossil fuels for several decades more before we can turn alternatives into viable options? Lastly, why would you not opt for a solution that said any new oil produced from these efforts have a per barrel tax that could go into a lock box (Al Gore favorite) for alternative energy R&D? The left has put all their eggs in the alternative basket, unlike the rest of the Kyoto loving world, without embracing proven technologies like nuclear and yet tout wind which has been around for decades and produced nearly nothing? You lefties should embrace exploration and drilling, but try to extract your pound of flesh and tie some strings to new oil and be seen as part of the solution, instead of being against everything thats parctical in the next ten years, while being for something that has yet to make itself a reasonable alternative.

  —pacificaharry Read pacificaharry's other letters
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