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Positioning for When Water Runs Out: Part II

It takes energy to fabricate and construct alternative energy systems. The energy we have now, from the sources we have established already, must be applied to the process of conversion to alternative energy technologies. The Obama "Cap and Trade" strategy just makes that energy investment more expensive and less efficient, and does nothing effective to guide the conversion to alternative energies.

Simultaneously, government regulation and systems complexity limits the rate at which we can convert to alternative energy technologies, increases the cost of the conversion, and may very well stand as an absolute barrier to making the necessary conversion before we lack the energy and the commodities to make the conversion at all. The Obama administration isn't doing anything to put bricks on mortar, only proposing more regulations and complexity.