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Originally Posted by NeilBlanchard
Germany, Costa Rica, Monaco, Norway, New Zealand, Sweden, and Iceland all seem to be able to afford the transition to renewable energy. If the USA stopped spending the 4 billion a year on oil company subsidies, then we could afford to make the transition, too. We spend ~1.5 billion A DAY on foreign oil, so if we conserve, we can save plenty of money, and spend some of that on renewables. As Amory Lovins says (Rocky Mountain Institute) we can spend $100 per barrel to buy oil, or we can spend $18 to *save* a barrel of oil.
That adds up very quickly.
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Neil in this post you gave the best reason to provide immediate solutions for vehicular inefficiency. My design has that potential and I am not the only one working on that type of system.
Meanwhile we debate long term solutions, when the real solution is the ones that can be implemented virtually immediately to bridge the gap between what will be the transportation infrastructure in the next decade and what it MIGHT be in then next century.
In WW2 the US had the foresight, to develop weapons that could be used in a very short time period. Victory was the priority. We are in the same situation right now and without immediate solutions that are practical and affordable, we risk defeat in the global economic war in which we are now engaged.
Sending money to OPEC is in my opinion very little different than watching our ships sunk by German Uboats, visible right off the east coast, was just 70 years ago.
regards
Mech