http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKN2443769620080624

And obviously, everyone realizes that we have a limited amount of Hydrocarbons. But the problem you’ve got going there, is that Obama and the Democrats pretend to care about energy independence, but none of their policies will switch us off of oil for decades (at best). Drilling domestically actually would reduce the trade deficit, our current account balance, and do so for at least decades (till the oil runs out of course).

I’m not sure what you mean by hydrogen energy, but since H2 gas is not naturally occurring, the only way to get it is electrolyzing water (or stripping it off of natural gas, of course, but Democrats are against building a pipeline to bring cheap natural gas down from Alaska). Nuclear power would be a good way of doing that as well. Too bad Obama is doing his level best to block it. Perhaps Republican policies are simply too realistic, they look at countries and model their energy policy after the one that works best: France.

Ah, and wind power, sure it can play a role, Republicans have nothing against people building it if they like. The problem is, where do you store the power when the wind isn’t blowing? Wind works well for southern Germany where it can be coupled with hydro-electric which can be quickly cycled on and off, but poorly in Texas where there are no hydro dams. Algae based biofuels or thin film solar panels are of course research worthy, McCain and Obama both favor those, along with Bush, but they depend mostly on basic R&D and not massive deployment and billions of subsidies. Both of those have real promise anyway, and as such are funded by venture capitalists.

Noch Dazu, bitte verstehen Sie mich nicht falsch, ich habe nichts gegen Deutscher, dessen Energiepolitik ist einfach bescheurt.

Sticking with “attempts”, those countries that have started reducing their oil dependence through alternative energies have included Germany’s investment in solar power, Iceland’s investment in hydrogen power, France’s investment in nuclear power just to name a few.

And while Republicans want to ‘drill baby drill’ for the diminishing oil supplies, the left-wing want to invest in effective alternative energies like solar and wind.

The left would also like to invest in alternative energy research like algae, wave, hydrogen, and geothermal, just to name a few.

But Republicans keep chanting ‘drill baby drill’ as if dinosaur fuels will last forever….

What attempts are those? Which countries have switched off of oil? Pray tell.

And why does it all run on oil? Republican powers that be always block meaningful attempts to leave that way of doing things.

I guess the troll hasn’t noticed that over the last year a number of elected Republicans have publicly criticzed Rush Limbaugh and then been forced to apologize for having the temerity to criticize what he says.

Oh yeah, how is stopping jews from building homes in Jerusalem going to bring peace in the middle east? Some Obama supporter needs to explain that one.

Obama’s energy policy sucks, throws nuclear power under the bus, the stimulus package is a waste and spends money slow when it needs to go out fast. Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh are long nosed money grubbing scumbags who want us to die quickly so they can use our blood to bake Matzva, I read it in Der Sturmer… er I mean Mother Jones, sorry, it’s hard to keep all the vitriolic hate straight… too much overlap.

Now, if citizens actually agreed with cheney about Obama, and thus making the coverage positive, the GOP would be ecstatic (sp?) This is like the KKK complaining that a member is giving them a bad name because he’s using the “N” word in interviews about someone black. The fact is that GOP approves of Cheney’s attacks but doesn’t want the responsibility for its approval of the mud slinging because the voters dislike the mud slinging.