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Wed 21 Jul, 2010 07:12 pm
Both MSNBC and CNN news networks online are stuffing the anti energy tax propaganda commercial down our throats. I would rather be sold cigarettes, a case of lung cancer and a coffin and I don't smoke, than listen to that crap!
As it is now, Americans pay the least for energy than any country in the world. The anti energy tax commercial starts by trying to scare average low class poor people and say everything we do takes energy and we will be paying so much more. Gosh oh golly gee whiz...
They have a black man in one of the commercials implying he can't survive if they charge him a few more cents per energy unit. But I am sure that black man would rather send his son off to war instead? How much more, 6 cents on a dollar per energy unit? Does that add up to 20 dollar more a year or 100 dollars total maybe for the average consumer? Is that really that much to pay to insure we don't go into another trillion dollar war over oil? So the average citizens sons and daughters are not killed in the prime of their lives to feed our energy needs? No!
The real truth is the people who will be paying more are the big corporations who are using oil without impunity to produce their plastic products that are now discarded and floating on the ocean. Would the American people be sympathetic if there was a rich millionaire CEO in one of these commercials crying and moaning over the fact that they would have to pay 100 thousand dollars more out of the millions of dollars profit a year to keep America from sending money off to terrorist nations? BOOO HOOOO!
BP and their record profits and they get subsidies! Not taxes? (something is wrong with that picture) and they can rake in those kinds of profits and still raise the price of gas? I THINK NOT! The government can set the price of energy if they want. They do it with milk bread and eggs. And wouldn't it be a shame if our country would become energy independent and not need so much oil... then the oil companies would not need to stuff these tasteless adds that are nothing more than lies down our throats!
Wouldn't it be terrible if Americans paid a tax for research and development of alternative energy instead of another war? (cynical) I smell the filthy stinking rich oil stained republicans behind this push to reject the new energy tax. Up to their old partisan shell game of where did the American's money go? We can keep paying these mad radical dictators for oil or we can pay a tax to develop alternatives to our energy needs. I will not be watching the online news videos until they take these disgusting commercials off. The only people who will be really hurt by these energy tax laws are the filthy stinking rich oil companies who can't even fork up the money for a proper blowout preventer and SO BE IT!
I have been advocating a stiff energy tax for nearly 20 years. And maybe it is now simply too little too late and the American consumer has little conscience at all but it is even more-so corporate America that is hiding behind these scare tactic commercials. It is corporations who will have to finally pay for their own gigantic carbon footprint that will soon wipe out life on earth if we do not reverse the damage being done to both the environment and our relations world wide because of America's glutenous grab for oil.
China is now up to their necks in their own oil spill and so is America facing the same disaster what the hell does it take to finally wake the frig up!.
As I said consumers don't want to take the responsibility collectively (along with corporations) for the sad state of our energy affairs.
I have a question but it is going to take a really smart person to answer this one. I knew a man who was an electrical engineer here in Maine. He proposed that we make ethanol from methanol. He kept threatening to set up an experiment in his backyard and I had this mind picture of him unintentionally blowing up half of the neighborhood in the process.
He told me that methanol and ethanol had only one molecule different. It would seem the with this wealth of methanol on land and sea that converting methanol to ethanol would be the quickest short term fix for our energy needs for fuel. Does anyone know enough about chemistry to tell me if these experiments have been conducted and if the research has be exhausted in this attempt to convert methanol into ethanol with a low energy process? Unfortunately my engineer friend had an untimely death in his fifties and he never got a chance to do any of the experiments he had wanted to do.
This answer must have come directly from our lame department of energy...
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_to_Convert_methanol_in_to_ethanol
Hang it on the clothes line, make it do back flips while spitting pickles. RR
@RexRed,
I'm not sure a blanket energy tax solves anything. But I agree that raising the price of non-renewable polluting fuels by some mechanism makes a bundle of long term economic sense.
I for one have never understood why the US doesn't lead the world in solar and wind energy technologies and deployment - what better way to ensure energy security? Much more morally and economically wise than sending troops to farflung oil rich regions to secure supply lines.
Clearly an oil crash is coming with diminishing supplies and prices rises astronomically - how nice it would be to not care about who burns the last drops of oil.
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