The Long Road to Energy Independence

An interesting educational, promotional point - beyond 'no child left behind': You don't give a loaded gun to a two year old. "...and yet, by secrecy and silence, the death sentence was also sealed, as the new energy concepts beyond nuclear, required for evolutionary survival, were denied, deemed too dangerous to a population being 'dumbed' down - see Evolution Blog



NYT January 28, 2007 - The Basics
The Long Road to Energy Independence
By MATTHEW L. WALD
President Bush never used the phrase “energy independence” in his State of the Union address last week, and it is just as well. His program for cutting gasoline demand is ambitious in scope, but modest in effect, according to experts.
The reason is that the United States has fallen down a very deep well, and it’s hard to get out. Last year, the United States imported 60 percent of the oil it consumed. If, as Mr. Bush proposes, we cut gasoline consumption 20 percent by 2017 — about 2.1 million barrels a day — then the share of oil imported will fall only by 4 or 5 percentage points.
In fact, the government expects the share of imported oil to fall anyway, to less than 56 percent, because of a rise in domestic production, ...full text