I voted wholeheartedly for Obama but...

[OrByte]

nvm wrong thread

 

[Carmen813]

Originally posted by: Xellos2099
The world is never a fair place. The problem with the rising of the health care cost begin when medical insurance surface. Before there were medical insurance, even average joe can afford doctor visit, however, this change when medical insurance as doctors and hospital start giving the most expensive service and most expensive medication as they know it is going to be covered by the insurance. This in term cause the rise in medical insurance cost and now normal people can't afford it.

A big picture you say, two of the biggest agenda Obama have are green energy and UHC. As for green energy, ti sound good on paper, but it will never be as effective as nuclear energy. People are still complaining about the Three mile island incident, but that was a man made accident and technology have improve over the years. Less dependent on foreign oil he claim, why not drill on our own. The left claim it pollute the environment, but every country including Cuba and China are literally drill oil right in front of us. The sea is going to be polluted just the same even us benefiting. So why ntoi start drilling ourself and try to keep the damage to the mininial. Alos, he of his slogan during the elevation was that even if we drill, we won;t see a drop of oil in years, so why noy start now and when the oil price start rising again we will have a supply of our own oil.

If you believe that technology has improved and made nuclear power safety over the past 35 years, what makes you think that green power technology cannot improve to compete with other forms of energy production? I have no problem investing in more nuclear plants, but that doesn't mean we can't invest in other forms of energy. Fusion in particular would be amazing if we could get it sustainable.

Drilling oil will not help solve the problem. It would cost billions to increase our drilling and refining capacity (refining is the problem), all of which would be wasted money once our oils supplies dry up. We can spend that money now on renewable energy sources, or we can spend it on drilling, but only one of them will supply our energy needs indefinitely.