This piece by Andy Sullivan at Reuters is remarkable for how it highlights the monumental gap between President Obama's promises about how going green will create hundreds of thousands of jobs and begin to transform the economy, and the actual results in the last 3 years.
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When I saw that supply and demand for oil was balanced back in 2004, I knew that there was a problem. That was before gas even reached 2 bucks a gallon. Since then, I've been searching for ideas that could possibly work. The very first thing I looked into were the so called green alternatives. But one problem with them all, they were all "five years away". Here it is, more than five years later, and they still aren't here yet.
Green energy is a pipe dream. It sounds too negative, but that is the syndrome. A pipe dream is being sold and people want to believe in it. Even I, as a global warming skeptic, spent a lot of time on the subject. Even today, I look for ways to trim carbon dioxide emissions. That's how far this thinking has permeated our culture. But does anyone challenge its validiity? If so, not enough.
We need to concentrate on real solutions to a real problem. But we are stuck on a pipe dream and stuck on stupid.
The one thing I found that could work has been sitting on the shelf for forty years. It has been proven in concept. All that is needed is commercialization, but it can't gain traction. It wouldn't take that much, but it goes begging for money and attention. Meanwhile, the pipe dream keeps playing on.
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