Energy Bill Makes Bad Energy Outlook Worse -- National & Homeland Security Threatened
New U.S. Energy Bill speeds up oil reserve depletion, increases dangerous dependence on Middle East oil that threatens national and homeland security. Provides funding for major expansion of radioactive energy(Nukes)and continues focus on high polluting fossil energy. Discourages investment in abundant clean energy resources and and protects windfall profits of big oil and energy. Visit www.cleanpeace.org for more information.
(PRWEB) July 30, 2005 -- The energy bill Congress sent to the White House
today guarantees America's continued dangerous, dependence on Middle East oil.
The U.S. holds between 2 percent and 3 percent of world oil reserves,
the Persian Gulf nations hold 50 percent and the Middle East dominated OPEC
cartel controls 61 percent. Middle East dictators have oil staying power; the U.
S. and Western democracies do not.
“The bill subsidizes more rapid
depletion of dwindling U.S. oil reserves. Subsidized oil production means faster
oil depletion, an increasingly dangerous dependence on Middle East oil, the
dictators who control it and the terrorists who influence them,” said author Roy
McAlister, a Cleanpeace. org Co-President and a world authority on clean fuel
production from wind, wave, biomass and solar energy.
America's
prosperity and security depend on adequate supplies of the cheap oil that powers
the nation's economy. Increasing dependence on Middle East oil supplies that can
be disrupted by violence or political change at any time threatens both. Without
adequate cheap oil supplies America could face recessions, depression and
worse.
The energy bill's policies will not fill the oil gap, improve the
environment, reduce global warming or encourage use of America's abundant
undeletable energy.
The bill heavily subsidizes depletable radioactive
energy (nuclear power), coal and other fossil fuels while short-changing
undepletable energy.
This severe imbalance in funding and policy
advantages makes fossil and radioactive energy appear less expensive than
undepletable energy discouraging its commercialization and sustaining windfall
profits for big oil.
“Earth collects more energy from the sun in one day
than all the oil it ever contained. Nature stores vast amounts of this energy in
wind, wave action, biomass and direct solar in sun-scorched deserts. All these
abundant forms of solar energy can be converted to hydrogen and fuel America's
existing utility, industrial, transportation and agricultural engines without
pollution.” said McAlister.
But,Congress prefers to serve big oil
profits rather focus policy and funding on this clean energy source that could
bring real energy independence, cleaner air and water and strong national
security.
“The bill protects oil and OPEC from real competition. It
stacks the competitive deck against undepletable energy and that stacks the deck
against America.” said Bill Garrett, a Co-President of Cleanpeace.org, a
non-profit clean, undepletable, energy advocacy group.
Radioactive power
(Nukes) can not safely fill the oil gap. The fossil resources subsidized by the
energy bill cannot be mined and processed into oil fast enough to replace the
gushes of oil that have fueled American and world prosperity. “The energy bill's
priorities are simply wrong, Said Garrett.
“It would take over 2000
mammoth one giga-watt radioactive fueled nuclear power plants to make up oil's
decline. Storing and protecting the radioactive wastes these nuclear plants will
produce prohibits nuclear power from being cost effective.” Said
McAlister
McAlister continued, “Congress' energy bill amounts to little
more than a Big Oil boondoggle and a multi-billion dollar giveaway to giant
energy corporations. It puts taxpayer money in the wrong place, at the wrong
time and for the wrong reasons. It continues short-changing abundant solar
resources and it fails to equalize subsidies and policy advantages between
depletable energy and undepletable energy. The bill should be dubbed “The Great
Mistake”
“By passing this bill, Congress sent a message to America's
friends and foes that the United States has surrendered its energy future to
those who hold the oil when it needed to send a Declaration of Energy
Independence and set an undepletable energy policy to back it up.” said
Garrett.
For more information:
www.cleanpeace.org
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Source : http://www.prweb.com/releases/2005/8/prweb267521.htm