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Originally Posted by Riot
Those forms of energy have become pretty affordable. They reason they are not in great use is that we in the US haven't been forced to use them. In the US we coast on what we know, and what is easy and familiar. We have lost our desire to innovate when what we have is working. We just came off eight years of oilmen determining our energy policies - what incentives were put forth during that time to not use oil? Right now, we have all the oil we need (for "today"), and we can afford it. We live day to day in the US, we don't plan ahead very well.
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They arent as easy or affordable as you want to say they are. The viability of alternative energy sources doesnt have anything to do with what we want or what we know. Geothermal energy simply isnt easily gotten to and areas that it is are remote western states. Wind energy is fraught with issues. Same with hydroelectricity. Their issues have nothing to do with attitudes.
06-09-2010, 03:17 PM
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