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Aug
18
I had a note from Steve Dalton at Porter County Politics advising that his post on ANWR — the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and an Indiana congressional candidate’s visit to that region — was attracting a lot of attention in the blogosphere.
In these days of ever increasing gasoline and energy prices, it’s great that Steve has taken a look at an area that has generated a lot of controversy, but that might also be one of the solutions that allows the United States to finally break free from dependence on unfriendly and hostile nations for our energy supplies.
Would you support drilling in ANWR if it meant that we didn’t have to spend some much time and energy keeping oil flowing from the Middle East? Maybe ANWR drilling is the price we need to pay in order to have some peace — at least until the Russians or some other lunatic country decide to flex their muscles.
The whole issue of energy independence and rising prices has gotten me thinking that it would be great if everyone would add a solar panel that was interconnected with the power company’s grid. Not only would everyone get some net metering benefits, it could also reduce the need to burn natural gas, oil or coal to produce power.
While a solar panel or two won’t be enough for a household to go off the grid — wouldn’t it be great to never have a power bill again — the aggregate of neighborhoods back feeding solar power into the grid would be a great step toward ending our reliance upon oil from evil dictators, crazy potentates and other people in control of energy sources who don’t have our best interests at heart. At the very least, maybe we could reduce our own energy bills by a significant amount by selling power back to the power brokers.
There’s something beautiful in the thought of a backwards spinning energy meter, isn’t there.
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If more people would only wake up to the fact that Transportation (OIL/GAS) drilling for cheaper prices 20-80cents per gallon less does not have the same beneficial impact on American Economy and Helpful climate control. The power interests in the world (controlling oil) want us to believe that we should somehow just stay stupid and keep going with the current way of doing business in America, forget Solar, forget pure electric cars, forget development in C.A.R. (compressed air car) and other emerging technologies to help Americans go back to work, and at the same time doing something good for everyone. Forget Big Oil! P.S. As you can see I don’t have a spell checker on this, but that’s not the point! the point is.. take off your blinders and quit listening to the P.R. from big oil to somehow believe that they have our best interests at heart………….YA RIGHT Did you know that you can build your own electric car for under $5k ! Get busy and get real! No more old school lets use the oil and drill in our back yard to save 5 dollars a tank, and then get taxed to heave as another adverse “Katrina” comes down upon us leveling a state, as the taxes to rebuild it hit us, just so that we can save five bucks and possibly kill of some pretty unspoiled scenery in Alaska and make more money for the OIL BARRON’S!
Chris you’ll find that the anti-oil, anti-big business, anti- “everything” people will come out of the woodwork on ANWR and offshore oil drilling. Nevermind the facts, that all Republicans are asking for is an increase is supply capability.
Sure, wind is great, electric cars are great, nuclear is powerful, and innovation that I don’t even understand in power generation … but why artificially increase the cost of any fuel while we sit on our hands. Let’s become oil independent while we find new sources of energy. We are the United States of America, we can do what we set our minds to.
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