TonyCinTX

Stick with Gold and the Oil Stocks

The USA has four great clean natural resources that could replace oil within ten years. Besides natural gas (which burns cleaner than coal, oil or gasoline), we have wind power and thermal-solar that have both been proven to generate electricity competitive with our dirtier alternatives. We also have proven geothermal electric on hundreds of installations right here in the USA, some are fifty years old and still working. Geothermal is a zero emission solution, perfectly clean, and requires nothing but a drilled hole. We know how to drill! A plant can be built for a few million dollars and pay for itself within five or six years. The energy is free, and a geothermal plant is about the size of a standard warehouse, literally.

We don't need biofuels. We don't need to invent clean coal. A wind turbine pays for itself in three years and lasts for twenty five. All we lack is the political will to actually change gears, because the change would put existing wealth at risk.