tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14235725.post113881458274510899..comments2023-12-27T04:58:41.112-08:00Comments on BIOconversion Blog: The Military Surcharge for OilC. Scott Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04752517798894140353noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14235725.post-1144157248536611672006-04-04T06:27:00.000-07:002006-04-04T06:27:00.000-07:00Scott Miller, I am in substantial agreement with y...Scott Miller, I am in substantial agreement with your comments. I have been following the bio-fuels revolution for some time on my blog. I had seen Lt. Col. Amidon's essay on the net, but I too felt that not ALL costs of diplomacy in the ME would disappear with our oil dependency. <BR/><BR/>Some have withheld excitement for the promise of ethanol because it can't TOTALLY REPLACE petroleum, but corndoghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01292263790072409842noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14235725.post-1139795642195837182006-02-12T17:54:00.000-08:002006-02-12T17:54:00.000-08:00Personally, I think it would be GRAND to see artic...Personally, I think it would be GRAND to see articles like this posted in major newspapers. We don't need to learn to think outside the box, we need to learn to think a whole NEW BOX outside, inside, everywhere.Mr. Naturalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09570665867798768948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14235725.post-1139459422910111202006-02-08T20:30:00.000-08:002006-02-08T20:30:00.000-08:00I am no isolationist. I grew up in a military fami...I am no isolationist. I grew up in a military family, in the shade of the Pentagon and armaments appropriations. In fact, my father wrote a book a few years ago called "Nuclear Weapons and Aircraft Carriers" about force projection technology development in the nuclear era. My brother sells jets for Lockheed Martin.<BR/><BR/>From my personal perspective, communications have shrunk the earth to theC. Scott Millerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04752517798894140353noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14235725.post-1139419510138439482006-02-08T09:25:00.000-08:002006-02-08T09:25:00.000-08:00Clearly we use oil as much as we do because it is ...Clearly we use oil as much as we do because it is the cheapest and highest density fuel available. When the price rises, we will use alternatives. Domestic production will rise also, as the high cost of recovery has restricted production here as well.<BR/><BR/>The debate gets poisoned by false economic arguments, driven by political agendas. What you seem to be saying is that we could abandon theMichael Gershhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04084067399523056270noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14235725.post-1139173380503639992006-02-05T13:03:00.000-08:002006-02-05T13:03:00.000-08:00The link appears in two places - under both the ti...The link appears in two places - under both the title to the entry "The Military Surcharge for Oil" and under the title of the article "America's Strategic Imperative: A 'Manhattan Project' for Energy." I highly recommend reading all of it.<BR/><BR/>Reasonable people can debate details of the accounting but I think the thrust of the issue is sound - our import of oil, particularly from the MiddleC. Scott Millerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04752517798894140353noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14235725.post-1139165773435924052006-02-05T10:56:00.000-08:002006-02-05T10:56:00.000-08:00Your math assumes that the entire military effort ...Your math assumes that the entire military effort in the Middle East is due to oil, and that, absent oil in Arabia, this nation would not be involved there. If there were no war on terrorism, no clash of civilizations, no Jihadi dreams of global conquest, and no State if Israel, then the math might be closer to the truth. But the truth is that we are a global power, the wealthiest nation on EarthMichael Gershhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04084067399523056270noreply@blogger.com