Is the Attack on Fossil Fuels Warranted? – Is Alternative Energy Pulling Its Weight?
“Another One Bites the Dust” was a very popular 80’s song, but it seems to be just as popular right now in the alternative energy sector. Yes, all those green companies that were supposed to make a killing, but now with all the bankruptcies they are living all their investors without money or energy. It seems everyone is trying to reduce their carbon footprint and we have a whole new generation of anti-Big Oil and clean alternative energy groupies – this time they are busy blogging and screaming we want green. Well, that’s all well and good, and it’s fun to dream and all, but Americans need to get serious about the reality of the amount of energy we need, we must have to run this great nation. Yes, wind and solar sound really cool, but they really aren’t. Both are fairly unreliable – these solar panels are not good enough, and wind power isn’t pulling as it should. I don’t want to kill everyone’s vision of a cleaner tomorrow, but “give me a break” – far too many folks don’t really unde