@oralloy,
oralloy wrote:
The left's hopes of imposing socialist-style rolling blackouts on the American people are silly. The voters are not going to stand for it.
The American people are going to have their power needs met. Whether the power comes from coal, nuclear, or fracking doesn't matter. But it's going to come from somewhere.
And if the environmental movement blocks nuclear and fracking, that leaves coal.
You forget that conservation serves as a source of energy when lesser amounts of energy used in one application liberate that energy for other uses.
An LED bulb that uses 5W, for example, liberates 10W of power used by a CFL bulb of equal luminosity, and that 10W of power that's freed up can be used elsewhere.
It's the energy equivalent of 'a penny saved is a penny earned.'
People just have to learn to be satisfied with smaller heated/cooled areas, more natural ventilation, more efficient transportation, etc. - all of which use less energy per capita.
They reject conservation because they don't understand how less can be equivalent to more, but just look at a flat screen TV compared with a CRT TV, or LED bulbs compared with incandescent bulbs, and it's easy to see how less energy can be made to achieve the same level of satisfaction.
Big energy uses like heating/cooling and transportation are harder sells, but it's because the energy and motor-vehicle sectors promote their products as superior in order to avoid losing revenues.
