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Originally Posted by Ptmckiou
You don’t gain independence by continuing to rely on Stone Age technology. When we stop using fossil fuels so much, thereby utilizing more modern technology, OPEC will no longer rule our lives. Fossil fuels have gone their way with the model-T. Time to advance.
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But advance with what? Anyone with the least bit of scientific background knows full well solar and wind will only help. They cannot even come close to reliably meeting all of this country's energy needs.
If we hope to completely remove ourselves from fossil fuels (aviation?) we have to have new and massive power sources like nuclear and we need to be building new power plants TODAY. Some of that $1.2 trillion in infrastructure money should be going to research thorium nuclear or nuclear fusion. We cannot merely cut off today's source of energy, we have to have functional plans to replace it.