Energy Independence?
Washington Times:
The whole idea of “energy independence,” writes Robert Bryce, exuberantly, is “Hogwash.” And like so many things, Mr. Bryce tells us, it all began with Richard Nixon.
“Every U.S. President since Richard Nixon has extolled [sic] the need for energy independence. In 1974, Nixon promised it could be achieved within 6 years.” Gerald Ford promised it in 10, and Jimmy Carter pledged to wage the “moral equivalent of war” (the acronym MEOW proved appropriate) to achieve it.
In “Gusher of Lies: The Dangerous Delusion of ‘Energy Independence,’” Mr. Bryce, despite a tendency to reach for the rhetorical sledge- hammer, writes with strength and gusto, and is an equal opportunity attacker.
“I did not write this book with a political agenda,” he tells us. “I am neither Democrat or Republican. I am a charter member of the Disgusted Party. I’m a radical centrist, a raging moderate who leans toward the libertarian…” The purpose of his book, he writes, is “to debunk the concept of energy independence and show that none of the alternative or renewable energy resources now being hyped – corn ethanol, cellulosic ethanol, wind power, solar power, corn-to-liquids, and so on – will free America from imported fuels.”
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