The 3rd Presidential Debate

[steven787]

NJ5 said:

Retrasado said:

48 ok, what does the fact that we have 3-4% of the world's oil reserves have to do with the fact we use 25% of the world's oil? obama fail

It's relevant when they're talking about energy independence. You can't be independent if you're using more than your share of the pie.

By the way, here is a fact check on energy independence:

http://www.theoildrum.com/node/4647

 

 

That article fails to take certain information and ignore them.

• When politicians say energy independence, they mean oil.
• When the author talks about the costliness of alternatives, he ignores the fact that that is the point.  The government will subsidize the development of cheaper alternative energy production for long term savings that will make it back for the tax payers.  That technology will be exported.
  
• The price of oil isn't what is meant by discouraging terrorism.  If oil is made irrelevant by alternative fuels (by significantly lowering demand) then the middle east is made irrelevant, which means the U.S. leaves them to their own devices.  Terrorist win, we leave the middle east alone.  We win by having less threat from terrorism.
• There's more, but I'm lazy.