A Comment About

Obama’s Energy Plan a Mix of Bad and Good

October 7, 2008 - 12:25 am - by Robert Zubrin
kabud
2008-10-07 13:34:32

This issue is understood ONLY if we look at it like this:

OIL imports to USA is about 700 billion $$ a year

Military Budget to secure American defense against oil exporting and agressive totalitarian regtimes like Kremlin or radical Muslims is

around 700 a year

Lets say we keep military but reduce import to zero.

We have 700 billion dollars for the 2009 saved.

To built enough methanol(not ethanol) capacity we need

We need 2000 big methanol production plants to produce 500 billion gallons/ a year of methanol to replace 200 billion gallons of gas/diesel a year

Costs to built 1 methanol plant vary between 100 million and 1-2 billion
depending on feed stock, technology level of funds misuse, capacity

With 700 billion we can built enough

Also if a LAW will be adopted requiring ALL cars to convert to flex(methanol a must) -

ethanol production will increase as well,

because ethanol can be used in methanol equipped cars as well as gas

IS THIS SO COMPLICATED that average Joe with IQ under 100

CAN NOT GRASP IT?

I dont think so

I think, i am SURE that powerful people doesnt want us to be ENERGY INDEPENDENT

So what shouild we do?

I think it gets to us, The People to start acting DIRECTLY

it is not just a PETITION issue

We need DIRECT ACTION

We need to get up of our asses and MAKE government to mandate alcohol fuels
NOW