nor do most of the people appearing on the Sunday morning political shows today... whether it be the Secretary of Energy, or the representatives of the oil industry, or so-called energy "experts," or various politicians on Capitol Hill. Everyone is avoiding the topic of peak oil, perhaps out of ignorance, perhaps out of duplicity. There are those who advocate alternate fuels; unfortunately many Americans think alternate fuels are feasible, unaware of the physics that are involved. In order for alternate fuels (hydrogen, ethanol, what-have-you) to be viable as an alternative to carbon fuels, they have to be produced in great quantities. For hydrogen and ethanol to be available in great quantities though, they must be produced from other more available 'basic' materials, and this requires huge energy inputs. Few calculate the costs of energy involved in the generation of these alternate fuels--most just assume that all we ened to do is invest in retooling our energy industries to make these fuels and everything will be fine.
Agriculture has been transformed into an industry, one that is heavily dependent upon oil, but most dwellers in cities and suburbia have no clue about agriculture and what it takes, relying on our centralized economy and chains of supply to keep our needs satisfied and living blissfully unaware of the fragile foundations of our current system of economic arrangements.
Info for today's show.
Meet the Press website. Meet the Press podcast. VOD. The MSNBC political blog.
And of course during the time period for MtP they air the ad for learnaboutcoal.org.
There's also CBS' Face the Nation. The webpage should be updated shortly to include today's discussion about gas prices. Their website needs to be overhauled if they want to compete with Tim Russert.
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