| bigjon said: umm.... if we spread that 2% over 30 years we could actually go 100% independent... the danger is that we would be out of oil at the time, and if we don't have any permant energy solutions we are screwed. I say we stretch it out over 75 years and make a good dent in our indepence. Besides, it would help our economy.Right now we are sending 700 billion dollars a year into other countries economies... imagine if we left it in the US... |
No joke, this is why domestic energy production, in whatever form it takes, is a good idea. The only long-term solutions that are viable are nuclear and renewables (which are actually getting to be a lot more efficient and less costly, but obviously nothing is on the level of nuclear in terms of efficiency)
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