Re: Does anuone else think these rebates are a joke?

Janice wrote:
nick c wrote:
Janice wrote:
nick c wrote:
Janice wrote:
Rickster wrote:
Seriously, $600 is going to make a difference in my standard of living. I'm sure many need and welcome it. But isn't borrowing more money to try to boost the economy kind of like giving a drunk another drink to try to get him sober?

Or am I just getting as curmudgeonly as OS?

Hey if you don't want it you can give it to me. My rebate? $0. But yes, I think it's a stupid idea. It's not going to boost the economy. What would is to increase production of oil in this country to force the reduction of oil prices and become less dependent on the Middle East.

Environmentalists (along with congressional supporters) will openly champaign to prevent oil explorations in Alaska, Gulf of Mexico, Pacific Coast Line, and Arctic regions.

There's supposedly enough coal available to support industrial energy needs in the US for the next 300 years. But ..... its use is frowned upon.

Allow homes in States such as Arizona, New Mexico, Florida, and Southern California that have solar panels for resident energy, the option to disconnect their homes from the electrical grid systems.

The problem is too many people come up with excuses to keep us tied to the Middle East. Solar power is not feasible on a major scale in the majority of the US, we are tapped out on water power and people like Senator Kennedy scream when environmentalists want to put up wind fields in their neck of the woods (or Ocean). Everyone screams we shouldn't be in Iraq but no one wants to make a commitment to immediate change in order to be independent of the Middle East. Immediate change is to take what we already have and look for something better at the same time. We can't wait 50 years. If we had done this long ago we'd now be able to control the middle east because they wouldn't be controlling us.



Janice, solar power may well be feasible throughout the south west part of the country. In terms of area, that represents about a third of the land mass of the country. In terms of actual use, the number of uses may be much less, probably due to conversion costs. But to allow such a concept of action to exist might well produce better than expected results. Results gleaned from area testing would be informative.


Still it's not the end all solution. Imagine if the days went dark then what? Of course I favor Nuclear Power but that too is a hot subject ;-)

I have mixed emotions about using nuclear power.

Since 2/3rd's of the earth is covered with water, why not develop ways and means to use hydrogen to drive power plants. That would be a never ending source of fuel. However, as you said in an earlier post, there would be a lot of people who would be against doing anything.

Locally, the City of Long Beach announced the City has found a way to obtain hydrogen from ocean water at lesser cost than methods presently used. However, it's still not cost effective and research work is continuing.

"Necessity is the mother of invention"




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