Can North America become primarily self-sufficient in energy?
Many well-informed people say that Americans are unlikely to drastically cut their energy use, therefore dependency on oil imports from the Mideast and perhaps other sources is, from a practical standpoint, unlikely ever to stop. But– practical obstacles aside– COULD we survive by cutting our energy use back, and opening up more reserves, developing alternate energy technologies? An old question, but I think we and our leaders need to grapple with it more, and try to cut our oil imports from the Mideast and other distant nations drastically. Canada, the U.S., Mexico, and Native American tribes might discover great mutual benefits through hanging together on this.
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January 23rd, 2010 at 6:07 am
see you asked a perfectly fine question
and then uglied it up with
all that blah blah blah
Can North America become primarily self sufficient in energy?
Sure…….
but can doesn’t mean will
and at what expense to the rest of the world
the biggest challenge
would be overcoming the selfishness
of the greatest percentage of the population throughout North America.