This is why the Conservative wing of our political spectrum is wrong. The Gas and Oil companies as they stand today, are not "Energy Companies", they are 'gas' or 'oil' companies, but not energy companies. As a result the rest of the world is making a dedicated change to renewable energy resources and the U.S. is not.

"Renewable sources account for 25 percent of Sweden's energy use and 45 percent in Norway. The United States lagged behind, with only 4.2 percent of its energy consumption coming from renewable sources.

Energy companies and governments were driving growth in renewables, Flavin said, with firms including Royal Dutch Shell Group, BP, and Mitsubishi among the major players.

Additionally, 48 countries now have policies and incentives promoting renewable energy, he added."

(Published on Thursday, September 29, 2005 by One World

Fossil Fuels Set to Become Relics, Says Research Group

by Abid Aslam)

The Conservatives are the people who own gas and oil companies. They tend to be closely attached to the Bush Regime and to each other. Being Conservatives they are unable to see past the present and have insight into only things that are, rather than things that may be. They make their trillions from oil and gas and not 'renewables'. Therefore we (Oil and Gas boys): " must not change a thing, just make it more efficient."

In as much as they own the white house, the U.S will make no real measurable change to renewable energy any time soon. The men in power today are deeply and unabashedly Conservative and, to them, the old ways are always best...no, perhaps it is better said that 'their' ways are always best.

"WASHINGTON - Energy drawn from the wind, tide, sun, Earth's heat, and farm waste is poised to begin replacing oil and other fossil fuels, a prominent research group said Wednesday in a wake-up call to industry executives and government officials worldwide.

Wind turbines that produce electricity spin at a wind farm in Daban, in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.For energy-hungry Asian governments, the answer could literally be blowing in the wind. Across the region, renewable energy such as solar, wind and geothermal power is gaining ever greater credence as a way to curb the region's appetite for oil and cut runaway import bills. With oil prices near $70, and expected by many analyst to stay over $50 through the end of 2006, governments believe alternative energy will help keep their economies growing. (CHINA OUT REUTERS/China Newsphoto/Files)

''Energy markets are about to experience a seismic shift,'' Christopher Flavin, president of the Washington, D.C.-based Worldwatch Institute, said in a speech to oil executives and energy ministers in Johannesburg, South Africa, site of the 18th World Petroleum Congress..."

(Fossile Fuels..., Abid Aslam)

The Present 'Conservative' Administration will make all of the wrong decisions about our present and future energy needs because, as conservatives, they cannot imagine a world that does not fit their self-serving preconceptions and blind ideology.