[Alex Jones]
Political News, Radio, Ideas, Videos and EventsWhy We Need to Invest In Alternative Energy Now
2008-06-22
As you are reading this the major powers of the world are securing and competiting for security over the limited world oil production. Countries like China, who is expected to have over 90 times as many cars by 2010 than it had in 1990, are sucking up more of the world's oil production at a rate that is increasingly harder to keep up with. This is why we need to invest in alternative energy now or prepare to go to war over it.
Just recently China tryed to buy out the U.S.'s biggest producer of American oil Unocal. Senate legislatures quickly began to dispute the bid by pointing out the fact China is trying to buy up US oil production that Americans already depend upon. After a period of time China backed down and finally gave up their quest for Unocal.
One thing we can do immediately is copy what Brazil is doing and use sugar and corn to make ethanol. The US has an abundance of corn, it's coming out of our ears, lets put atleast a portion of this surplus corn into ethanol. While we take advantage of this technology which is available today we should also create incentives to invest in alternative energy. One thing I feel strongly about subsidizing is battery technology. Right now we could have very affordable electric cars if only there existed a cheaper light battery than the laptop battery. Electric cars today literally have to use thousands of laptop batteries to operate for long periods of time and to charge quickly.
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