Speaking of wind power..

[CAP1]

Well granted it doesn't help the fact that a US sub was just in the news last week for leaking radioactive water and was also a minor leak in one of France's reactors.

Now personally I'd like to see more reactors here in the US, but anytime people start warming up to the idea stuff like this happens.

hhmm...didn't hear about the sub.........hope the crew's ok........

the one in france....you said it...a minor leak.

it's overall safe, and probably our best bet for the time being.

[soda72]

That is a strangle hold on our country that we can't live with.  It's that simple.

Amen brother...

 

[crockett]

According to the thread title I thought you were going to say you farted. 

 

Back on topic.....

We can't get off oil until we find replacements for oil based plastics, oil based lubricants, diesel, jet fuel and gasoline. Natural gas is just another fossil fuel that will put out greenhouse gas emissions.

We don't need to stop using oil for plastics & lubricants. If we stopped using oil for electric & gasoline we could likely supply all we needed for jet fuel & diesel or at least only require a very small amount to be imported. As for the natural gas, it's far cleaner than any other fossil fuel and it's only emmissions are carbon dioxide and water.

[Elfie]

We don't need to stop using oil for plastics & lubricants. If we stopped using oil for electric & gasoline we could likely supply all we needed for jet fuel & diesel or at least only require a very small amount to be imported. As for the natural gas, it's far cleaner than any other fossil fuel and it's only emmissions are carbon dioxide and water.

So instead of importing oil.....we'll just import natural gas to fuel our cars. We already use very little oil for the production of electricity, but still...I say replace that with nuclear power.

Carbon dioxide is Co2 which is a greenhouse gas. All this does is trade one Co2 producer for another.