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Government Spending first we need a plan every Dollar of Government Spending needs to create jobs that help the economy. Bridges to No Where like Sarah Palin pushed don’t create benefit equal to the cost of spending.
That should be one guide line.
The second should be does the spending help or hurt Americans.?
More spending on turning coal to oil only makes sense if oil is very expensive it would take years of research to drive the costs down or another oil war to drive up oil prices to make the cost of turning coal to oil make sense.
We don’t have years and another oil war is a cost we can’t afford we can’t afford our current oil war.
It would be far cheaper and quicker to update the electric grid so we can transfer electricity from places with wind and coal Montana and West Virginia come to mind (remember we need to keep coal miners working) only now they build windmills on their land and collect checks as they farm.
To places that need more electricity.
Why do they need more electricity because we will get Detroit working making GM Volts that have to be plugged in.
The less oil we need the less reason to fight oil wars. Also Ossama gets cash from rich Arab oil countries a Demand Driven drop in the cost of oil takes money out of his pocket.
This makes America safer.
I humbly submit this Diary as my resume for Obama’s economic team:)
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Your facts need a little research. They can turn coal to oil now. We stole the process from the Germans at the end of the war. The coal miners could keep on working, and we all would be better off. Wind and solar only produce electricity some of the time. Water power runs 24-7-365 days a year. We have enough running water in this country, that if it was harnessed, to provide us all free electricity. The Mississippi alone could make enough electricity to run the whole country, if turbines were installed every half mile down it’s length. Our politicians want the very rich to make money on all of us, that’s why we pay through the nose for all our energy, when it could be almost free if the profits were taken out of it. Lower cost energy would make the economy of thsi Country boom, but we want to make the economy of the energy producers boom at the cost of the Country and our people.
Maybe I was not clear I meant to say they can’t turn coal into oil cheaply, at current prices it makes more sense to buy oil more research is needed to lower the cost.
As far as wind goes or solar with a better national electric grid we can shift power from places that have power to places that need it.
Its always sunny or windy somewhere.
Also I should have mentioned the Danes are working on tech for using their electric cars to store energy from their windmills and when the wind stops blowing the owners can choose to get paid and release some charge from their cars to the grid.
On this part we both agree
Remember the cost of making oil from coal, is that you have to cook it. Using coal to cook it, is bad for global warming, the air and us. If electricity was cheap, it could be used to cook the coal, problem solved. You can’t make electricity cheap and clean with coal, but you can with water, just flowing water. You can’t stop water, even with dams if they didn’t let some out, it would eventually take out the dam. We are blessed in this Country with rivers all over the place, and don’t use what we have. The Government actually made people take their water wheels out, when the electricity companies, came in.
Got a link as far as coal cost and the cost of electricity? Also we do have lots of streams but how many are big and fast enough to be dammed up for power?
Next question how many homes by the riverside would we have to move? Although such an act would push up home prices and that would help the banks and the consumer trying to sell a home.
If Government loans were made available for river side home buyers to move the government which owns the banks could pay its self?
“Its always sunny or windy somewhere.” Uh-huh. When it’s night over the entire continental US the sun is shining in Iran.
Have any of you wind-and-solar geniuses ever looked into tidal power? There’s more energy there than we’ll ever need, it runs on an unchanging schedule, and it’s been reliable for several billion years…