Obama: ‘No Silver Bullet’ To Fix Energy Needs, But U.S. Can Lead the Way

“The choice we face is between prosperity and decline,” he said. “The nation that leads the world in creating new sources of clean energy will be the nation that leads the 21st century global economy.”
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I wonder upon what basis he makes this statement.
It seems just as likely that a nation that spends too much money chasing the wrong new energy source while excluding others and taxing others- will face decline.
Doesn’t everything have unintended consequences?

The cap-and-trade fight will be brutal The White House doesn’t seem to understand that…

matt: they’re capping at 2006 levels. if mfg can’t meet those requirements, they’re doing something wrong.

how will cap and trade cost US jobs? how does it increase pollution?
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Cap and trade will raise the cost of manufacturing in the US so the jobs will off shore to countries who don’t have cap and trade.
Those countries don’t care about air pollution to the extent that the US does so the same jobs will create more pollution than they would have if they remained in the US.

“how will cap and trade cost US jobs?”
Energy costs will rise by $3100 per family per year. It’s a new tax.
Employers will have to cut back.
That’s how.
It won’t decrease pollution. It’s only a vehicle to raise money for more welfare. Obama wants to channel 80% of it to those who won’t work and create a permanent non-working class.

With Iowa’s ethenol and wind energy…with Kansas’s wind energy, with California’s diesel-producing hemp potential, we could lower the demand for oil so much, the middle east would have to practically give away oil to keem themselves in gold, diamonds and torture equipment.

In addition, the liquid lithium reactors from Toshiba and Hyperion make a great addition to wind and solar and ethenol and biodiesel. I hear hundreds of jobs are now becoming available in this new alternative energy industry. Those who can relocate to these companies will see an end to their government assistance.

Our president is pushing forward the agenda of new and clean energy and as with all new technologies within a field, they eventually become more efficient and produce higher yields. As with solar panels, those currently produced, can extract energy from the sun on a cloudy day!

If liberals hold up France as such a model of european superiority, then why don’t we have 80% of our electricity come from nuclear energy?
Why is it so good for France, but not the U.S.?
If carbon output is a world problem, then isn’t nuclear waste? Yet we don’t tell France or Japan what to do about their approach to producing energy?

mad: Those countries don’t care about air pollution to the extent that the US does so the same jobs will create more pollution than they would have if they remained in the US.
Those countries all signed the kyoto protocol. of course they care about pollution. we signed it, but it was never ratified because Bush rescinded the signature from the previous administration.

j house: look at a map. those countries are significantly smaller than the US. we produce more waste. alot more waste.

Of course we produce more waste..we produce more energy.So?
Ever been to the NTS? Plenty of room to put it, from what I saw.

Of course we produce more waste..we produce more energy.So?
Ever been to the NTS? Plenty of room to put it, from what I saw.
have you ever been to Hanford? there’s no place safe to put nuclear waste.

maybee: do you know the definition of ratify? it didn’t go into effect ever.

geezeeeeee………. everything was just so peachy in America and the world when Bush & Cheney ruled America, shame those damn elections got in the way….. we should should have Michelle Bachman and Sarah Palin running the show, at least they are ‘real americans’ and live in ‘real america’….

reality check-
Not every country had to ratify Kyoto to make it binding, and we did not. Nonetheless, enough countries did that it went into effect Feb 16, 2005:
“Kyoto Treaty Takes Effect Today
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, February 16, 2005; Page A04
The Kyoto treaty to reduce global warming goes into effect today after seven years of wrangling, harangues, and dramatic entrances and exits by Russia and the United States.”

Thanks for the education, Maybee.

wiki isn’t always correct, but it is correct that the Protocol went into effect on Feb 16, 2005.
As mad pointed out, India and China aren’t very interested in limiting their growth for the cause of climate change.
They will take whatever manufacturing they can get, and they will be able to do it cheaply.

“Kyoto Treaty Takes Effect Today”
Ya know maybee I consider you one of the more honest right wingers but that’s kind of like being valedictorian in summer school.
Why did you cut out this part of the headline?
“Bush kept U.S. out of international pact on global warming”

mad,
Its better to go to wiki source material than just wiki.
From your article, Obama’s full comments
When the Kyoto Protocol was put forward, the United States opted out of it, as did China and some other countries–and I think that was a mistake, particularly because the United States…has been the biggest carbon producer. China is now becoming the biggest carbon producer because its population is so large. And so we need to bring an international agreement together very soon.
It doesn’t make sense for the United States to sign Kyoto because Kyoto is about to end [in 2012]. So instead what my administration is doing is preparing for the next round, which is–there will be discussions in Copenhagen at the end of this year. And what we want to do is to prepare an agenda both in the United States and work internationally so that we can start making progress on these issues.

Windmills? That is a joke. It would take thousands and thousands of acres to make it work and we are talking about meeting less than 20 percent of our needs. The answer is nuclear power – EFFICIENT AND CLEAN. Waste can be recycled. Has anyone thought of the environmental impact of thousands of acres of windmills?? THE KOOLADE DRINKERS HAVE TAKEN OVER AND THE MELTDOWN IS UNDERWAY!!

Jimbo: how can the nuclear waste be recycled? You need to explain that to the folks at Hanford because i’m sure they’d love to know how to save the millions they’re spending to store and cleanup the waste stored at their facility.

It takes 47 square miles of wind turbines and about the same of solar panels to generate the same amount of electricity as 1 nuclear reactor. People have been saying we’re running out of oil since the late 1970′s. Experts say that as the technology has improved so has the ability to get more oil.

Ryan C-
because that has nothing to do with the following assertion from Reality Check:
***Nobody has been required to do anything. it hasn’t been ratified! that’s partially because the US reneged on its signature. the Clinton administration signed, Bush reneged.****
If you read the thread, you’ll see this is about India and China, not about the US.

Obama should have stayed in D.C. and attended an event there to reduce his ever increasing “carbon footprint”. Obama should also stop having special kobe beef flown in from Japan and special pizza flown in from St. Louis, and Obama should turn down the heat in the White House (everyone complains he turns the thermostat way, way too high) and stay in the White House more often as opposed to constantly flying everywhere.
Obama is all talk and no walk on evironmental issues! Just another example of do as I say, not as I do. Hypocrites!
After years of purchasing “swirly” lightbulbs thinking they are good for the environment, I have recently learned that they are apparently hazardous to humans and the earth as they contain MERCURY! If you break one it’s apparently a haz mat situation and requires special “clean up” and can costs thousands to properly clean up a mercury spill. Also, mercury exposure is very, very dangerous to children and pregant women in particular. Also, mercury has no place in landfills that are currently filling up with these swirly bulbs. So, I will never purchase “swirly” bulbs again for the above reasons. I hope you won’t as well.
There are many other ways we can save energy and help the earth. We have been misled on “swirly” bulbs.
Help the earth, don’t hurt it. Thank you!

Is Kyoto group related to the UN commission on Human Rights Chaired by Sudan (where the Darfour massacres are taking place)?

deanbob: The protocol was developed under the UNFCCC – the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. it’s called the Kyoto Protocol because that was the location of the convention in December 1997.

Did you hear anything about the 2009 International Conference on Climate Change? About 800 scientists, economists, legislators, policy activists, and media representatives attended the event, which took place in New York City.

Here’s a green energy solution for you. How about we harness some of that hot air coming out of this ignorant administration? As much as they have spewed here lately it should solve all of our energy issues!
Seriously, Obama probably wasted more energy going on all of his campaign tours recently to account for one of us average people’s consumption for the next ten years. So give us a break with the pandering and campaigning.

Not to mention the 1000 delegation he took the the conference of the Americas!

Adieving this goal will not be easy. Energy independence will require far more than the same washington gimmicks and continued dependence on costly and finite resources. It will require a sustained and shared effort by our government, our businesses,and the American people. But America has overcome great challenges before. with clarity of direction and leadership, there is no question that we possess the insight, resources. courage and the determination to build a new ecomomy that is powered by clean and secure energy (Barack Obama on energy)…… this is why we put him in office, this is also the mandate by the American people given to him.

Provide short-term relief to American families facing pain at the pump.
help create five million new jobs by strategically investing over the next ten year to catalyze private efforts to build a clean energy future.
within 10 years save more oil than we currently import from the Middle east and Venezuela combined.
Put 1 million Plug-in Hybrid cars- cars that can get up to 150 miles per gallon- on the road by 2015, care that we will work to make sure are built here in America.
Ensure 10 percent of our electricity comes from renewable sources by 2012,and 25 percent by 2025.
Implement an ecomomy-wide cap-and trade program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 80 percent by 2050………you this looks like a good plan to me, I will not listen to all the stupid republican Rhetoric, it the same as it has alway been, a hope for failure, our president got a plan which includes the American people, if allowed it will work.

Our President has a plan, doing nothing is not a option, hoping for failure is not a option, he understands that the US can lead the way, and we will, it will not bankrupt us, it will save us a lot of grief later on.

One of the most important part of the plan is within 10 years we will save more oil than we currently import from the Middle east and Venezuela combined. even a bow and hand shake can’t contend with keen Intellect.

Commericialization of plug-in hybrids, will only begin when we advance the next generation of biofuels and fuel infrastructure, and begin transition to a new digital electricity grid.

If we don’t get off of the oil treadmill, you will see a Republican President down the road who will have no other choice but to bow and shake hands with people of the likes of chavez.

Reality Chec k is right, we can’t recycle all of the waste..
But, how many people die every yr from nuclear waste? Yet, we’ve been storing it since 1945 around the world?
Less die from extracting coal and oil.
(in fact, it is none)
Yes, it is poisonous and has to sit around for +22,000 yrs, and that is a long time…and security is an issue.
But it is all doable…now.
I’m thinking , you think in 5000 yrs or less man will not have the tech. to handle nuclear waste? Optimism, my friend.

I live in Des Moines, IA. Didn’t pay attention to Obama’s visit…I’m glad they’re building windmills in Newton after Maytag closed. Anyway, the 10:00 news came on and they were talking about a high speed rail from Des Moines to Chicago.
My initial thoughts were “That’s great! My inlaws live in the Quad cities, and it’d be nice to cut an hour off the trip” – I was thinking “bullet train.” I actually told my wife that it’ll be spectacular, as long as they don’t let the government or Amtrak run it.
Then the news actually started. The “high speed train” will go 79 miles per hour. The speed limit on the interstate? 70 mph, which means it’s more like 80. It’ll mirror the train tracks along i-80…which there aren’t track along I-80. And it’s going to be Amtrak trains.
And the wind was let out of the sails…

I’m glad..we won’t need a silver bullet..we can’t even buy regular bullets due to the Obama ammo shortage.

It has been reported in Wall Street Journal a week ago that even the production of wind and solar power plants have suffered great cut back due to loss of private capitals in spite of the call by BO in Congress to double the production of the renewables.. His interior secretary Salazar has been talking about replacing the coal firing power plants with a total capacity of one million mega watts by several hundred thousand off shore wind farms, which may cost more than three trillion dollars, can we afford it ?

Everyone who voted Democrat in the last elections should sell their cars, dump their cell phones and move onto communes out in the desert.
Energy problem solved!