by Allan Taylor

Created on: December 29, 2009   Last Updated: January 17, 2010

The USA has a self-inflicted energy crisis by allowing itself to become bogged down by the Democrat government bureaucracy and is stymied at every turn by Green Shackles (1).

It is theoretically possible to overcome all these impediments to having a rosy and prosperous future but I wouldn’t bet on it happening. Like the Roman Empire, all good things come to an end and maybe for the USA this is the beginning of the end.

Take a look at the present economy of California which under Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has embraced the Green ideology and has imposed strict restrictions on greenhouse gas emissions supposedly to prevent "pollution". Unemployment has risen to over 10% and many industries are moving elsewhere. Reliable electricity supply is dodgy, to say the least, and no new coal-fired power stations, nuclear power plants, or oil refineries have been build in California for decades. Moreover, the beautiful landscape is being desecrated with useless and ugly wind farms!

The reason for this calamity is that the State of California is in Green Shackles which prevent people from actually being able to do anything sensible and constructive to produce more energy. Economic stagnation is the precursor to disaster. Although Schwarzenegger is a Republican this doesn’t seem to make any difference once converted to the Green religion.

President Obama has the solution to the US energy crisis, so he tells us. He has appointed Prof. Steven Chu (Physics Noble Prize winner 1997), director of the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory which specializes in renewable energy technology, to advise the Government on these matters and how to solve the energy crisis. One of Chu’s suggestions was that we should paint all our houses white to reflect the sun’s heat. Chu is an enthusiastic global warmer and as such operates in an unreal world seeking fanciful solutions to the non- problem of global warming.

It is pretty obvious what the USA has to do overcome its energy crisis. Firstly, you have to convince yourself that the Green eco-religion promotion of the need to reduce greenhouse gases is a nonsense (3). The recent "Climategate" scandal has exposed the fraud of the global warming band wagon. So what should be done, assuming that the USA can overcome its Green Shackles?

Let’s consider the problem in two parts, which are actually interrelated to some extent  viz.., transport fuels and electricity supply.

The USA has the technological expertise to build

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