UnAddicted to Oil - Will we ever be?
Reading a Thomas Friedman article in the New York Times today had me thinking again about all the reason’s we are stubborn and can’t see the forest for the trees when it comes to Energy consumption.
“I have observed that in all other countries, including in America, people are complaining about how prices of [gasoline] are going up,” Denmark’s prime minister, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, told me. “The cure is not to reduce the price, but, on the contrary, to raise it even higher to break our addiction to oil. We are going to introduce a new tax reform in the direction of even higher taxation on energy and the revenue generated on that will be used to cut taxes on personal income — so we will improve incentives to work and improve incentives to save energy and develop renewable energy.”
How come we can’t learn from Denmark, Germany and japan when it comes to Energy consumption in this country? If it can’t be renewable - what’s the point? So we drill in the 5% of the Arctic we are not drilling in or we add more drilling offshore. those are the answers our politicians are coming up with?
Pathetic.
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