It would take a windmill field the size of Connecticut to power the city of Phoenix, AZ. It would take a solar panel field, if I remember correctly, about 100 square miles, to power NYC.

The only viable alternative energy right now is nuclear, which has been criticized due to it’s hazards, 3 mile island is used as a poor example that never really panned out as a hazard anyway.

Besides, we can’t run cars on wind and solar power (well maybe solar but not efficiently).

One of the biggest misconceptions right now in the media and from the left is that this is a product of the “Drill baby, drill” crowd. That crowd’s “chant”, refers to “Offshore drilling”, this spill is a result of the regulations imposed that pushed the drilling to “Deep Sea Drilling” and has lead to circumstances that are uncontrollable at such depths. If is were “offshore” drilling, we could have capped it off and under control almost immediately.

Why not look at drilling on land!? Look at the size of the oil pocket under North and South Dakota! We drill there, we reduce the amount of dependability on foreign entities, create american jobs, don’t risk environmental disaster…I mean the “pros” are outstanding.

I think the two parties agree that alternative energy needs to take over, we need to get off of oil, but depending on an inefficient line of energy sources and going cold turkey on oil would kill the economy and destroy American lives. Let’s get these alts up to standards and introduce them to the public with tax incentives that makes them affordable and then maybe we can all agree.

Heck, I would love to see a car run on water…then again, what is the number one contributor to warming in the atmosphere? CO2? Nope, water vapor….but they don’t want to mention that in the global warming reports….