I always hear about the fight to get free flowing oil reserves from other countries, generally speaking.

The way I see it, there's been tons of innovations around the world. I'm sure the reason it hasn't been replicated everywhere is that there are other considerations that maybe make these things an impossiblity at least right now.

I'm talking about people experimenting with algae, mushrooms, alternative means to energy that have been successful.

I'm sorry but I do notice that our united states is behind on everything while we're whining about oil.

Over the past 20 years we should have been working on alternatives and we should have already been doing this stuff. We should have already been doing things to make ourselves independent even though we rely on some resources.

We should have already been doing this.

Trump has ended several science programs, scientists already left in mass droves and with the rise of maga came the rise of anti intellectualism.

It's not other countries faults that we don't work nor invest in our own country. We could have been so good as a country, we would be able to even clear our national debt by changing a few things and yet we want to whine, demand things from others to just hand it over to us.

We should have already been working on things so it's a self inflicted bullet wound on our account.

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Nanoose · 70-79, M

Next month I will be getting another rebate check from BC Hydro. 20-30 years ago BC Hydro started investing in building new renewable energy projects. Now that those projects are payed for - BC Hydro is back in the black and they share some of the profit with their customers.
Bet the big beautiful coal company's in America don’t do that. Cheers!

FreddieUK · 70-79, M

If there were viable alternatives to oil and gas (methane) then the oil companies would immediately either grab the patents or do everything they can to protect their investments and destroy the challenger. There is a conspiracy theory that it already exists and is being suppressed. I don't believe it, but it is on the plausibility scale.

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whowasthatmaskedman · 70-79, M

@FreddieUK There are viable alternatives to gas and oil right now to fuel vehicles. The issue is cost. Building the car that runs on Hydrogen is more expensive than a gasoline or diesel engine. But it can be done, If the will was there and people had to pay for it, because there wasnt an option. Equally, people will adapt to electric cars. When there is no option, or if they become cheaper than Gasoline..😷

FreddieUK · 70-79, M

@whowasthatmaskedman I suppose I assumed in the word 'viable' affordability was a factor, both of means of production and a for the consumer. One bus company in the UK has just abandoned it's entire hydrogen fleet because of the costs of storage of the fuel. They're looking at other non-oil based options.

whowasthatmaskedman · 70-79, M

@FreddieUK Oh I get it. And I agree "viable" includes cost. But our continued love affair with fossil fuels is solely because we wont stump up the extra $ or wait 30 minutes for a battery recharge. When the oil runs out, we will do just that..😷

DeWayfarer · 61-69, M

It has yet can't develop them when the copyrights are bought out and never used. 🫤

I knew someone that had developed a unusual method of processing trash. The very rights to the process were bought out in the 1970s. Yeah I was a kid.

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