Isn't it curious that the Bush Administration is stopping solar projects on public land at the same time pushing for lifting the off shore drilling ban? Administration Freezing New Solar Projects
$20 million has been spent to oppose Cape Wind.
The energy industry has spent buckets opposing increased auto fuel efficiency.
This Washington Administration has actively stymied any efforts to promote alternative energy and create a sensible energy policy.
The following are telling you we're at the end of World Oil production (T. Boone Pickens is telling you estimates of oil reserves are being provided that are unsubstantiated and meaningless to sell the propaganda):
Rep. Roscoe Bartlett: Peak Oil
T. Boone Pickens Promotes Wind, LNG
This from the Florida CFO:
“I think this is a very shortsighted approach to put our economy at risk for oil drilling along the coast when we all know that the first drop of oil wouldn’t even come for ten years,” Sink said. CNBC
Off Shore Drilling: Are Americans Being Snookered?
Wind is already more competitive than electricity generated from new nuclear and coal-fired power plants.
Newsweek in McCain's Power Outage
EIA: The projections in the OCS (Outer Continental Shelf) access case indicate that access to the Pacific, Atlantic, and eastern Gulf regions would not have a significant impact on domestic crude oil and natural gas production or prices before 2030.
Something that takes 22 years to deliver significant results hardly qualifies as a "short-term" solution. Why would it take so long? To vastly oversimplify: First, the government has to identify properties to be leased and hold a lease sale. Then, winning bidders need to contract with drilling rigs (all of which are booked for the next five years, according to the New York Times), drill exploratory holes and analyze core samples - "They drilled 75 holes in the North Sea before they figured out the geology" sufficiently to begin drilling productive wells, says Lucian Pugliaresi, president of the oil industry-funded Energy Policy Research Foundation Inc. And then, if oil is found, companies would have to order and put in place production equipment, build pipelines to get the oil to shore, and get various permits and environmental analyses every step of the way.
Why would Congressman Young be so interested in wind power projects located nowhere near his state?
One answer might be that his longtime friend and former Alaska state environmental official Guy Martin, has been hired by a group of wealthy families trying to block a proposed wind farm several miles off the coast of Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
Martin works for the Washington firm Perkins Coie, one of several giant Washington lobbying firms hired by a coalition co-chaired by Bill Koch of the Koch oil and gas conglomerate, Doug Yearley, former CEO of Phelps Dodge, and other wealthy Cape Cod landholders. The group has spent close to a million dollars trying to influence lawmakers against the project.
Cape Wind Provides Clean Energy
The Cape Wind project would provide 420 megawatts of electricity from 130 emissions-free turbines. That is enough to supply 75 percent of power needed on Cape Cod, Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard.
By using clean energy instead of fossil fuel electricity generation, the Cape Wind project will eliminate approximately 360 tons of particulate matter, 2,400 tons of sulfur oxides, 800 tons of nitrogen oxides, and 1,000,000 tons of carbon dioxide for every year of operation. That will reduce respiratory problems and other pollution-related health effects, as well as reducing the carbon pollution that causes global warming.
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