Energy Independence : Develop America's Natural Resources

This is on the mark, and something that has been brought up many times in the past decade. But the only way for this to work is to elect Conservatives to the federal government, both the White House and the Senate.

But why stop there, get rid of all the Democrats or Republicans in the federal government and state governments, that have shown to have voted against developing our own natural resources, and there are many.

The election in 2012 is coming faster than one might think. Be ready to take a stand for common sense.

ENERGY INDEPENDENCE & SAVING OUR ECONOMY

Looking at our ECONOMY over the past few years I submit that the government’s Green energy policies are not working sufficiently and will not fulfill our energy requirements in the foreseeable future. The administration has pursued this agenda and it not only has not worked, but it has been a hindrance on our economy.

Because of the way our country functions and the vast physical size of our nation, we need large amounts of energy of all kinds, particularly gasoline and fuel oil. Today that means we need more fossil fuels. We could reduce somewhat the requirement for crude, if we had more electricity and a modernized national power grid. That means more nuclear power. Therefore, I suggest we need to change course and start pursuing a plan to take advantage of our available natural resources and spend the money we presently pay for foreign oil, here in our economy. ….FOREVER!

The first step in this process would be to dramatically reduce importing that oil. Presently we pay $750 Billion dollars a year for foreign oil…for which we get nothing but crude. I submit we should give the economy a major shot in the arm by starting an effort to stop importing foreign oil by drilling in ANWR and the North Slope of Alaska. We have a pipeline in Prudhoe Bay that is not running to capacity and we could easily build new pipelines from ANWR and the North Slope to Prudhoe Bay. That would allow us to get the new oil from these reserves into the system and down to the lower forty eight relatively easily. Because of the volume of oil known in these two locations, we could see a significant decrease in imported oil relatively quickly, as these locations come on line. This would allow us to move a major portion of the $750 Billion from foreign lands to our economy producing many new jobs.

Additionally, we could start using much more natural gas in power plants. Building some new refineries in our northern states, such as Washington State, Montana, and North Dakota to expand the refinery processing capability of the country would produce more jobs .
(More new jobs)

An additional process would be to deploy many more nuclear plants, with the goal of eventually converting the country to pollution free electricity. In conjunction with this goal we would totally revamp our National Power Grid, modernizing it which would dramatically lower the size and amount of future power failures. We would protect and control the new expanded grid by making it secure from cyber penetrations. (Many more jobs).

In addition to the above we would also build unique nuclear plants on all three coasts that would not only produce electricity for its geographical area, but would also desalinate sea water to reduce drought conditions and also convert many of the large arid areas of the country into beneficial developments. (More jobs).

As we increase our domestic oil production and surpass our present levels of consumption of imported oil, the new nuclear plants would help us increase our conversion of the country to electricity. This would allow more gasoline at a lower price helping our routine infrastructure laborers and tradesmen expand their efforts. (more jobs).