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Should Energy Independence Be A High Priority In The US?
By Mr Ethanol | January 30, 2008
Helium:
YES
by W Thomas Payne
Energy independence should be the top priority on the personal and political landscape of the United States today.
Current policy and practice leaves us as individuals the slaves of big business, and politically captive to the whims of nations which harbor within their borders those who wish we were dead and our way of thinking abolished from the face of the planet.
Our current model calls for the combustion of incredibly valuable hydrocarbons or the creation of waste products that are so dangerous that we are considering burying them under thousands of feet of rock to protect us from them for millennia. Have we not moved beyond the era of cavemen, relying upon fire to light our caves?
NO
by Jack Thornton
Energy independence is the idea that all of the power needs for a country can be produced within the country using resources that the country naturally possesses. In an abstract sense, with concerns about fuel supplies and terrorism it is a very appealing but Utopian idea.
The problem is that energy independence is a short-sighted proposal for reacting to a very real problem. Right now, many of our energy needs are met by supplies coming from potential unstable political areas and countries that are openly hostile about US policy. In addition, there is rising demand for those same resources. Should something happen to disrupt those fuels sources arriving at our shores, the entire American economy would quickly be in shambles.
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