Rise In Fuel Prices May Lead to Dirtier Energy Sources

Andy Kondrat June 30, 2008 | 2:33 pm EST

So some of us hadn’t been too bent out of shape with the skyrocketing fuel prices because 1) Some of us are selling our cars anyway, and 2) Some of us kind of hoped this would necessitate a rise in renewable energies. However, there are some predictions floating around out there which state that may not be the case. The International Herald Tribune tells us,

According to Climate Strategies, an international climate policy network based at the University of Cambridge, one of the likeliest consequences [of high fuel costs] could be a rush to highly polluting technologies to extract more fossil fuels from different sources, including technologies pioneered during the last century to extract liquid fuels from coal.

The thought is that, instead of spending on innovation to combat fuel prices, governments and companies might instead revert back to tried and true, yet dirtier, practices to meet energy demand. Some of these practices, like like liquid coal, can emit twice as much carbon waste as regular fuel production. Which is kind of the opposite of what we’d been hoping to happen, I think.

You can takepart to learn more about liquid coal from the Sierra Club, and sign a petition asking Congress to oppose any legislation supporting liquid coal.

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Tagged as:Climate Stategies • coal • dirty energy • energy • global warming • high fuel costs • high gas prices • International Herald Tribune • liquid coal • Sierra Club

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It is a wonder any of us reading this blog can sleep at night knowing what we know.
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lora bruncke July 4, 2008 | 2:16 am EST
AND????? Environmental concerns went out the door $2/gal ago. If oil was found under Disneyland, I would say drill a whole right through Micky’s statue into the ground and extract it. I will tell you all in the blogger world why we will drill before the election. Neil Abercromby, Democrat,…no, liberal environmentalist socialist Democrat, said that if we don’t drill the US economy will FAIL. I am thinking of asking each member of Congress and the Senate with a hand-delivered survey, to answer a question with ONE number.

What is your threshold for the cost of a gallon of regular unleaded gasoline?

What is your threshold for the cost of a gallon of diesel fuel?

I will then present these numbers to the AFL-CIO, Teamsters, ALPA, and the press. It is a simple premis. There is a price for a gallon at which EVERY member of Congress will start to drill in ANWR. Sweeney at the AFL-CIO has his head so far up Obama’s ass that he only sees sunshine when Obama smiles. The average Teamster spends $20-30/hour JUST FOR GAS! Oh and the Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA) are losing members because the airlines can’t afford $5/gallon Jet Fuel consumed at 2 gallons per second in cruise flight.

The Sierra Club can snival all they want, but oil production in the US will start before the election. If not, this one is on Obama and the Democrats and they will suffer in November.
Stuart July 7, 2008 | 5:07 pm EST

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