Will you guys vote for me????
What this nation needs is a Manhattan Project Size Plan for our nations energy policy. We need to put politics aside.
My plan....
Start Drilling in ANWAR- the oil companies say they can do it cleanly, so let them...with huge penalties if they fail to drill cleanly. Start extracting oil from the sands in utah etc...This is short term...
While we are doing that...we get the best minds in the nuclear industry together (GE, Westinghouse etc) and come up with one common design for the world's most advance nuclear powerplants...safe, and efficient. With a goal of 25% nuclear power in 10 years, 50% in 15 years, and 75% in 20 years. (BTW France gets 95% of thier electric power from nuclear.)
While we're doing that, use some of the subsidies that we currently give oil companies to make solar power 50% more efficient than it currently is in 7 years. Once we do that, then offer subsidies to homeowners that will make the break even point for electric power in your house a 5 year proposition.
If we get solar and nuclear on-line as I will, than we will have a glut of safe and efficient electric power, to power our cars. I think that the car companies are getting the idea now that hybred/electric is the future, but let's just say that in 15 years our goal is to have 50% of the nations fleet be hybred/electric.
Even while that's going on, we need to make geothermal energy more widespread and efficient especially for heating up north. We'll get the experts together on that and have national guidelines and goals for that.
Whew, finally, there will still be a need for oil/gas and Exxon and Mobil, we'll still be more energy efficient than we are now.
Anyhow, I'd appreciate your vote- my official position will be significantly more detailed than this.
BTW...Very little wind energy is in my plan...the windmills are a blight on the horizon...maybe a few as we bridge the gap to efficient solar.
TC
