>>>>>>Yeah, there is just one problem, the energy efficiency of corn ethanol is negative.
>>>>>>Also, while sugar ethanol could be produced more efficiently outside USA, there are lots of countries which are not terrorist homes or extremists tiranies that can produce sugar ethanol.
>>>>>>If the goal is to achieve independence of foreign supplies, you better start building more nuclear plants or drill Alaska more intensively.
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>>>>>There's a simpler way: ban SUVs and home trucks, or at least revoke the tax incentives for them and tax them like large cars, which they basically are. Want to have a truck? Prove that you are doing business with it that can't be served by a car, or pay lots of taxes. Want to have a home tank? Prove that you're an army.
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>>>>Less freedom of choice is not a solution, its government control which is the antithesis of freedom.
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>>>>There's something on the order of 1.7 trillion barrels worth of oil shale in the US. It can be profitably extracted when oil is above $70 a barrel and with the advancement of technology it is expected to reduce that margin to $30 a barrel within 10 years. That's an actual solution.
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>>>Not everyone thinks so - http://www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net/Index.html
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>>The problem with the peak oil theory is it assumes we've already peaked.
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>Not at all - see the chart at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hirsch_report and then go read the report. FWIW, heavy oils may be part of a solution, if we are prepared for the costs. Personally, I think we need to curb our consumption, particularly in transportation.

Personally I think we should increase our consumption of energy as thats what drives the economy. I believe all sources should be examined and expanded. Nuclear, coal, oil, hydro, geothermal, solar, wind...