[Graeme]

Liftoff for the New Apollo Energy Project

The House Energy and Commerce Committee has approved legislation that could help build a cleaner-energy economy for the United States, writes U.S. Rep. Jay Inslee, D-Bainbridge Island. The New Apollo Energy Project, if enacted, will spur technological innovation that will reduce dependency on foreign oil and help meet the climate change challenge.

But having called for a New Apollo Energy Project seven years ago, I saw the similarities between the two innovation revolutions. Last time, we went to the moon. This time, our technological genius and entrepreneurial zeal will turn to the task of saving this planet.

This action came just in time. The immediate need for job creation is self-evident. Our dependency on oil continually creates security risks. Most threatening of all is the specter of uncontrolled climate change.

The committee responded. We adopted a comprehensive plan to kick-start the growth of new companies in this field and give rise to millions of clean-energy jobs.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/opinion/2009278200_opinb30inslee.html

[Plantagenet]

Yeah!!!



Lets invent a new kind of energy to get us off oil!!!!

How long do you suppose it will take them to invent a new energy source?

[vision-master]

Nasa is like the Federal Reserve - both are privately held enitities.

[bratticus]

Energy Independence: The Ever-Receding Mirage
30 years of presidential futility and failure

Ronald Bailey | July 21, 2004

President Bush and his Democratic opponent John Kerry are both for "energy independence"—like every other president for a generation. That elusive, but ultimately pointless, quest has been a central feature in American politics and policy for the past 30 years, ever since the October 1973 embargo on oil exports to the United States launched by Saudi Arabia, Algeria, Bahrain, Abu Dhabi, and Libya.

By January 1974, oil prices had risen from $3 to $11 per barrel. In response to the embargo, President Richard Nixon did lots of counterproductive things, including imposing oil price controls and lowering highway speed limits. Nixon also launched Project Independence, declaring, "Let this be our national goal: At the end of this decade, in the year 1980, the United States will not be dependent on any other country for the energy we need to provide our jobs, to heat our homes, and to keep our transportation moving."

... snip ...

How long has US energy independence been an announced goal? 1974 to 2009

Result: Diddly Squat.

This time around will be no different.

Nixon, Ford and Carter all failed at it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAPL6rT24bc and these bozos will too.

[vision-master]

Energy Independence: The Ever-Receding Mirage
30 years of presidential futility and failure

Ronald Bailey | July 21, 2004

President Bush and his Democratic opponent John Kerry are both for "energy independence"—like every other president for a generation. That elusive, but ultimately pointless, quest has been a central feature in American politics and policy for the past 30 years, ever since the October 1973 embargo on oil exports to the United States launched by Saudi Arabia, Algeria, Bahrain, Abu Dhabi, and Libya.

By January 1974, oil prices had risen from $3 to $11 per barrel. In response to the embargo, President Richard Nixon did lots of counterproductive things, including imposing oil price controls and lowering highway speed limits. Nixon also launched Project Independence, declaring, "Let this be our national goal: At the end of this decade, in the year 1980, the United States will not be dependent on any other country for the energy we need to provide our jobs, to heat our homes, and to keep our transportation moving."

... snip ...

How long has US energy independence been an announced goal? 1974 to 2009

Result: Diddly Squat.

This time around will be no different.

Nixon, Ford and Carter all failed at it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAPL6rT24bc and these bozos will too.

Yes it will.................

See the swirling motion - flush!