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Originally posted by beepbeep
Hmm...problem is that oil in itself isn't viable solution in long term. There is good solution to this problems and it's called Fussion Energy. (I don't have time or energy to go into technical details and explain why it's so good, so just bear with me for a while)
Problem is that it needs huge financial investment over long period of time. We are talking billions of USD/year in 40 years strech. Also, it will concentrate power facilities into few big ones.
It has some other negative conotations as well:
First of all, politicians that decide to fund this won't get any cred from this in their lifetime (which is bad when we deal with GWB-kind populists). Second, it will render oil-companies "somewhat" obsolete (that, my friend is a huge paradigmatic shift tham many will have hard time swallowing). It will also take away oil profits from middle-east countries (that ironically fund groups like Al Quaida) which will force them into education, R&D and such unpleasent things (a big no-no in fundamental/religious societies) or force them back into third-world countries which they actually were before oil issue arrised.
Unfortunately very few people are idealists. There are far too many (fill in your favorite generalisation here .................................................. .......) for this approach to win in our lifetime. Pity it is.
It will eventually get there as evolution is a b***h but lot's of unnecessary s**t will happend along.
I just hope EU will ditch this oil stuff as soon as possible and pour some money into energy R&D... It will be tough for a while but i think it will pay back in the long term. It's kinda weary/expensive to do oil-controll wars every now and then... stuff is generating CO2 as well.
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Goran, in case you haven't noticed, right now the U.S. is spending huge bags of cash in an attempt to address the threats of terrorism and world instability. In the end even Sweden will benefit from our actions in Iraq and
TBD...
Except for my 911 and the people of the middle-east we all would love to see the deployment of a viable energy replacement to oil. I agree with your sentiment and hope the EU balls up to fund aggressive R&D programs instead of waiting for the U.S. with its deep pockets to again lead the effort.
Also, since you posted this here and given your previous negative comments about the U.S. are you also implying that the U.S. is to blame for the world's dependence on oil? BTW, even more tiresome than these "oil-controll" wars is listening to people complain about the U.S. being a bully because we actually confront threats against the free world instead of pretending they don't exist, or rely on others (UN), to sanction the problem away.