R. James Woolsey - An Argument for Energy Independence
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Former U.S. Director of Central Intelligence R. James Woolsey makes an argument for American energy independence.
This excerpt is taken from a discussion recorded in collaboration with the 2007 Aspen Ideas Festival, and was sponsored in part by Chevron Corporation.
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"A Conversation About Oil: Leaders Respond," with Alexander A. Karsner and R. James Woolsey at the 2007 Aspen Ideas Festival.
In this, its third year, Aspen Ideas Festival once again gathers scientists, artists, politicians, historians, educators, activists, and other great thinkers around some of the most important and fascinating ideas of our time. As these thinkers present their provocative ideas, they engage a sophisticated and highly motivated audience.
R. James Woolsey is vice president of the consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton and an officer in its global resilience practice. Previously, Woolsey served as director of the Central Intelligence Agency and delegate-at-large to the US-Soviet Strategic Arms Reduction Talks and Nuclear and Space Arms Talks. He has also been a partner in the law firm of Shea & Gardner in Washington, DC. Woolsey is currently co-chairman (with former Secretary of State George Shultz) of the Committee on the Present Danger, as well as chairman of the advisory boards of the Clean Fuels Foundation and the New Uses Council, and a trustee of the Center for Strategic & International Studies and the Center for Strategic & Budgetary Assessments. He also serves on the National Commission on Energy Policy.
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@JFrazer4303 Economics don't lie. Only with subsidies at the corn level and the ethanol level can it even break even. Even if there was a slight net energy gain, it is still a crazy idea. The soil depletion and the effects on the price of corn make it a bad model. Switch grass or even Hemp are both way better than corn ethanol.
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@christo930: "Corn ethanol is more or less an energy sink" if you use the methods assumed in the flawed study that "factoid" comes from. It was by people with a vested interest in us ignoring alternatives. They used the worst possible means, and a sane system obviously wouldn't.
"This might work if we got the ethanol from another source but congress is too stupid to realize that." So it's a good thing this prospect is just being explored, so we can find the best means.
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@marathon1974: "They bitch about "WARS FOR OIL"...yet they won't allow us to drill for our own oil"
Never mind that the DOE reports that if we completely open the continental shelf for drilling, it won't make a measurable impact on availability until 2030, and if you factor in our increase in demand, the effects will be "negligible".
We use most gasoline, and own least.
Continuing to rely on oil, without a major effort to get away from it, just means that those with the most oil will own us.
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I truly admire Jim Woolsey! He is the man!
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This is why the radical left contradicts themselves so much. They bitch about "WARS FOR OIL"...yet they won't allow us to drill for our own oil.
They hate coal, oil, nuclear. They stop oil drilling even claiming that it's "visual pollution" having oil rigs on the horizon...yet they have no problem with constructing thousands of metal windmills across the landscape.
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The only problem with this geniuses theory is that ethanol is produced with oil. Corn ethanol is more or less an energy sink, taking more in fossil fuel inputs than you get from the final ethanol. This might work if we got the ethanol from another source but congress is too stupid to realize that.
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JSOC
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he is a fucking neocon nazi - and a TERRORISTS!
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A brave man with such a sign behind his head ;)
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The CIA has provided valuable rare information to the New Yorx Times and other beloved media during the American Century
post-2001 it has done lousy in that service, but in 2006 it banned torture
so it is starting to get its house in order after fifty years of
bad ops and practices
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Yes, the Agency makes many mistakes and has been invovled in a lot of blunders. But the agency does a lot more than just what the media tells you it does.
MacBubbles 4 years ago 5
this being said a murderous warmonger can still be right about some topics ;)
(electricity is a desirable alternative to oil)
Rickdeckard2020 4 years ago 4