Comments on: Natural Gas http://www.aspousa.org/index.php/2009/06/natural-gas-2/ Truth in Energy Wed, 08 Feb 2012 11:57:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Peter Hunt http://www.aspousa.org/index.php/2009/06/natural-gas-2/#comment-2703 Peter Hunt Fri, 26 Jun 2009 19:31:44 +0000 http://www.aspousa.org/?p=1894#comment-2703 The dream of a return to economic growth for the United States poersists with the idea that we can and will reestabish the same level of consumerism and prosperity of the 2003-5 period. Nutso!! it can't happen as we have no unsubsidized exports that I can find. I was shocked to find even our entertainment industry gets subsidies for domestically produced movies. Boeing is loosing orders for it's over subsidized " Dream Liner " Military good sold overseas are super subsidized in development and manufacture and food and fiber would die without tax breaks and the Dept. of Agriculture. Can we have an employed middle class at anything near the wages they have received in the past? Which mean less spending. Getting back to where we were is a fictive dream - forget it - unless we get find some miracle exports. The dream of a return to economic growth for the United States poersists with the idea that we can and will reestabish the same level of consumerism and prosperity of the 2003-5 period. Nutso!! it can’t happen as we have no unsubsidized exports that I can find.

I was shocked to find even our entertainment industry gets subsidies for domestically produced movies. Boeing is loosing orders for it’s over subsidized ” Dream Liner ” Military good sold overseas are super subsidized in development and manufacture and food and fiber would die without tax breaks and the Dept. of Agriculture.

Can we have an employed middle class at anything near the wages they have received in the past? Which mean less spending. Getting back to where we were is a fictive dream - forget it - unless we get find some miracle exports.

]]> By: Bill Simpson in Slidell USA http://www.aspousa.org/index.php/2009/06/natural-gas-2/#comment-2684 Bill Simpson in Slidell USA Tue, 23 Jun 2009 09:41:07 +0000 http://www.aspousa.org/?p=1894#comment-2684 Compressed natural gas cars can be manufactured a lot cheaper than electric ones. What generates less polution, generating electricity to charge the batteries of electric cars, or burning natural gas to drive the vehicle ? I would guess that the gas car would produce less overall pollution, since you have a lot of losses before the battery of an electric car is actually charged. If you build enough gas fired power plants to charge 50,000,000 cars, peak gas might come a lot sooner than you think. But I am sure Washington has a grand plan to solve this coming problem like they did the housing bubble. And then there is China. Got a bicycle & gas mask ? Compressed natural gas cars can be manufactured a lot cheaper than electric ones. What generates less polution, generating electricity to charge the batteries of electric cars, or burning natural gas to drive the vehicle ? I would guess that the gas car would produce less overall pollution, since you have a lot of losses before the battery of an electric car is actually charged. If you build enough gas fired power plants to charge 50,000,000 cars, peak gas might come a lot sooner than you think. But I am sure Washington has a grand plan to solve this coming problem like they did the housing bubble. And then there is China. Got a bicycle & gas mask ?

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