Once again thank you for your unsubstantiated opinion.
"The American people need to know about this situation and be told
as well that
there are no easy or quick solutions to today’s energy problems. The president has to begin
educating the public about this reality and start building a broad base of popular support for the hard
This recommendation sits at the core of an Independent Task Force Report sponsored by our two
organizations. The Task Force was chaired by Edward L. Morse, a widely recognized authority on
energy, and ably assisted by Amy Myers Jaffe of the James A. Baker Institute for Public Policy of Rice
University.
The Task Force included experts from every segment of the world of energy – producers,
consumers, environmentalists, national security experts and others.
There are no easy Solomonic solutions to the energy crises, only hard tradeoffs between legitimate
and competing interests. Tightening environmental regulations, among other factors, have discouraged the
rapid expansion of badly needed energy infrastructure in many U.S. locations. But Americans are also
demanding a cleaner environment and cleaner energy.
Strong economic growths across the globe and new global demands for more energy have meant the
end of sustained surplus capacity in hydrocarbon fuels and the beginning of capacity limitations. In fact,
the world is currently precariously close to utilizing all of its available oil-production capacity, raising the
chances of an oil-supply crisis with more substantial consequences then seen in three decades. These
limits mean that America can no longer assume that oil-producing states will provide more oil. Nor is it
strategically and politically desirable to remedy our present tenuous situation by simply increasing our domestic supply
So, we come to the report’s central dilemma: the American people continue to demand plentiful and
cheap energy without sacrifice or inconvenience. But emerging technologies are not yet commercially
viable to fill shortages and will not be for some time. Nor is surplus energy capacity available at this time
to meet such demands.
Indeed, the situation is worse than the oil shocks of the past because in the present
energy situation, the tight oil market condition is coupled with shortages of natural gas in the United
States, heating fuels for the winter, and electricity supplies in certain localities."
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