I like George W. Bush. He’s cute—even when bruised. He’s so cute he likely got away with things his peers never could have. He seems afraid of the “s” word though. To be fair, many presidents have been afraid of the “s” word, and few have had the energy of this president.
Okay, that’s enough for those of you with your minds in the gutter. Solar energy seems to be something President Bush just doesn’t want to talk about. Apparently, he’s not alone. According to an article in The Economist, at least a couple legislators are also afraid of the “s” word.
I can’t pretend an ability to calculate the cost of safeguarding Middle-Eastern oil supplies. Determining whether or not some action might be appropriate to such safeguarding or whether it might constitute waste is even further from my repertoire. Donald Losman, however, in a paper published by the Cato Institute is prepared to determine just that. I can, however, think of a lot of ways many Americans might prefer to spend thirty to sixty billion good ol’ American dollars. That sum apparently does not include the monies entering OPEC’s coffers daily from oil consumption.
In the meantime, oil industry executives and politicians seem a little too hot to inform us how much it’s going to cost the rest of us to bring any non-OPEC energy sources (especially fuel-cells) to market, to market, legally, piggily. The International Energy Agency’s calculation now stands at $1 trillion. And you know what? Even on a very cold day, when keeping our faces turned towards the sun, we can still feel its warmth—for free.
Instead of worrying about supply-shock in the world oil supply, and praying for the Saudi’s to see fit to agree to all this “upstream” investment, wouldn’t the entire world be a safer place if every country just placed money in trust for the sun? After all, if the sun’s energy depletes, that moolah-lah and all the rest is nothing but history anyhow.
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