Has Obama done enough to expand alternative energy to make off-shore drilling look temporary?

[yurbud]

Poll question: Has Obama done enough to expand alternative energy to make off-shore drilling look temporary?

He said in announcing the off shore drilling that it was part of more energy independence and a move AWAY from carbon based energy.

Has he done enough to move us to alternative energy source to make that claim that off-shore drilling is part of moving to alternatives credible?

If you think he has done enough, say what he has done that should impress us.

If you think he hasn't done enough, say what he should do to impress on the public the seriousness of the effort.

[Greyhound]

1. Kick for larger sample. n/t

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

2. No.

If you think he hasn't done enough, say what he should do to impress on the public the seriousness of the effort.

Announce high-speed rail from SF to NY. At the cost of a few months in the Middle East.

[amborin]

3. No

[Warpy]

4. Congress is balky

especially the conservative Senate. Anything new seems to scare the hell out of those old boys.

[Zenlitened]

5. Exactly the right question to ask, IMO. Good poll.

My own feeling is that this drilling announcement would be easier to accept if we'd already had a good, solid green energy/jobs plan getting under way.

Something really transformative and do-able, addressing the employment crisis, the need for energy independence and environmental concerns simultaneously.

The sort of thing we were hoping Van Jones would help get rolling. I wish he'd stayed on.


(edit "stayed")

[emulatorloo]

6. Good question. We will have to see how this bill shapes up. (CALL YOUR CONGRESSPEOPLE)

No passive waiting allow

[emulatorloo]

7. P.S. Will be interesting to see how the upcoming GM Electric car does

Will their be incentives to buy the CHevrolet VOLT?

ON EDIT LINK To Volt gallery:

http://www.chevrolet.com/pages/open/default/future/volt.do

[Oregone]

8. Screw subsidies and credits to private industry. Start a public green energy initiative

Let the people own these windmills already, so they don't have to continually pay profit to a company built on the government's back

[zbiker]

9. darned good question coming

from someone who lives in an energy producing state (wyoming). i have watched the boom and bust cycles here repeat themselves time and time again, and i have always had to wonder why washington does not do more. heck, even getting out of the way and let us provide the resources that abound here without all the interference would be a big help.after all, wyoming has tons of federal land that could be put toward the problem, most of it has trouble growing so much as a sage brush, let alone anything else. and the majority of it is floating on top of natural gas,oil, and coal.
i wish in his announcement that he was going ahead with the drilling program instead of only promising to promote the search for oil. would have been a giant leap forward. looking for it is a start, but developing it does so much more.
we are reputed to be a great candidate for wind power unlike any other, unfortunately the environmentalist challenge our ability to do all we can here, heck our legislature has even addressed how we will be taxing the power generated for commercial generation, just like we do with our mineral production. all we need now is the abilities to get underway without a lawsuit at every turn :(

as someone once said
"lead,follow or get out of the way"

[yurbud]

13. that's why gov't is unlikely to move us to alternative energy

wind and solar are low tech, can be done on a small scale as well as large, and the ''fuel'' is free.

Contrast that to the high tech, by necessity centralized nuclear plants and the endless supply of fuel required to use gas and coal. All three are tailor-made for both monopolies and giving an endless income stream to the oligarchy, and as we saw here in California ten years ago, an ideal means to blackmail the public out of billions when the right pols are in power (or powerless).

[progressoid]

10. Does clean coal count?

:evilgrin::hide:

[Johonny]

11. wasn't there suppose to be an Apollo project of alt energy?

so far that's not really materialized

[yurbud]

14. It's been more like an Alpo project.

[TheKentuckian]

12. Certainly not. I almost went with Other: LOLZ

The biggest investment in green energy in history is but a drop in the bucket. At this stage its a fig leaf more than a real effort.