In case you didn’t know, the space race technology boom was paid for by the American taxpayer, and not a dime’s worth of patents that resulted from that technology boom became property of the government that paid for them.

Regardless of the "need" for such a project, if the government is too stupid to retain a percentage of the resulting inventions, which any prudent investor would certainly do (in addition to getting their money back, which the government did NOT do), then I’m against it being done with tax money.

Solar panels and wind turbines and ethanol are all unviable without taxpayer subsidies.

Basically, we need to drill because that’s the only source of energy anyone is willing to provide without a government handout.
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There is no widely available alternative source of energy for cars, boats, trucks, planes than oil based fuel. We require these things to get people to work and deliver food and goods. We will need oil for the next 30 years.

There is no pixie dust or stars to wish on.
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It was an election year misdirection ploy that had the side benefit of leasing off some more public land that won’t be drilled any time soon. The ploy’s intended purpose was to give voters a reason to vote for Republicans while directing them away from important facts like what is driving the current price spike and the summary conclusion of everybody in the field that we need to develop alternative energy sources at a much greater pace if we are going to reduce our dependency on oil imports.

One thing I get from this forum is that there are a lot of misinformed people out there with very strong opinions nonetheless.

One fellow in here is suggesting there is no such thing as homes heated by natural gas or heating oil, for example. It is very strange the leaps people will take in order to justify their partisan worldviews.

Think of it this way, for every 1000 megawatts of electricity you generate using renewable energy, that is 400,000 homes that do not get their energy from coal or natural gas, freeing up those resources for use elswhere. A single wind farm of 500 turbines can generate 1000 megawatts, and the entire central corridor of the country has wind in abundance.

Similiarly, the Western corridor has sunshine in abundance, and with parabolic solar facilities, you can generate 180 megawatts on a single square mile of land using current technology.

It is completely feasible (and cost effective in the current climate) to convert as much as 25% of our current power generation to wind and solar power alone.
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