Vote Now! California's water problem

Not immediately, they simply can't. But they don't like being a part of the third world at their size and they will start trying to behave like the Western Great Powers insofar as in their power lies. They don't like the pollution of their rivers and air much either and realize that with their populations they must act or the entire countries will become a smoke-belching, polluted landfill. They are desperate for a solution and when we eventually develop a new energy source we will make a fortune selling it to them to replace oil and coal. America should be putting far more resources into research and development of green energy technology. We have let Europe outstrip us in simple wind power, that needs to be reversed. And we need to bear down hard on advanced technologies.

 

Fracking also has a lot of gray areas. In some geologic areas, fracking is no threat to groundwater whatsoever while in others it is a real and present danger to groundwater. Likewise in some areas there is plenty of surface water or non-potable groundwater to use for fracking, while in others the shortages of fresh water cannot abide the loss of huge quantities that fracking requires. A proper balance must be found here and I see that happening already.

But the access to huge amounts of oil now trapped in shale is going to allow America to ride out the coming energy shortages far better than other countries. It has already eliminated our dependence on foreign oil. We buy foreign oil now because it is so cheap. I think we should be buying all of the cheap foreign oil that we can and leave most of our shale reserves in the ground until the day of extreme shortages arrive, and it will soon. Oil will become unaffordable and wars will be fought for access to it. We will be sitting behind our oceans with all of the oil we need if we play this smart.

 

Well they are the American Wind Energy Association and they are very positive. And we are getting better. Yes, our total wind energy production is large because we are a very large country with the biggest energy demand in the world, by far. But wind energy is only 0.7% of our energy production. Denmark's is 16.8%, Germany 5.4%, Spain 8.5%, Portugal 5.9% . . . many countries have a higher percentage of wind power than the US. Denmark has the worlds largest wind turbine company along with a number of other wind power factories. Europe incentivizes developing wind power companies better than the US, where we pay Exxon (the worlds most profitable corporation) $millions per year in subsidies and $billions in tax breaks for a mature, profitable, but dirty industry with a declining future.