Al Gore criticises Obama climate policy

In reply to: charles nelson
I am curious as you use the word insanity in your comment if you do or do not understanding logic and reason.
The Canadians have supplied crude oil from Hardisty, Alberta to the US for over 50 years, via multiple pipelines. The first pipeline was installed immediately after the second world war. There is sufficient Canadian Oil sands, oil to supply the entire US needs for 47 years.
The Canadian oil sands crude oil has been developed by US, International, and Canadian oil companies.
The Canadians do not have and never will have nuclear weapons. The Canadians have fought alongside the US for a decade in Afghanistan. The US and Canada have a joint anti terrorism effort and have a join North American defense effort.
It is a fact that in five years time every major Islamic country in the Mideast will have nuclear weapons. If there was a war in the Mideast (let say a nuclear war), interrupting Mideast oil production the US economy would be crippled. The US purchase oil for the ‘strategic’ oil reserve for that very event.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Canadian_Sedimentary_Basin

The Athabasca Oil Sands, the Cold Lake Oil Sands and the Peace River Oil Sands, which contain initial oil-in-place reserves of 260 billion cubic metres (1.6 trillion barrels), an amount comparable to the total world reserves of conventional oil. The World Energy Council reported (2007) that the three Alberta oil sands areas contain at least two-thirds of the world’s discovered bitumen in place.[3] These three major oil sands areas, all in Alberta, have reserves that dwarf those of the conventional oil fields.[4]
According to the Alberta Energy and Utilities Board (EUB, now known as the Alberta Energy Regulator, the AER), Alberta’s oil sands areas contain an ultimately recoverable crude bitumen resource of 50 billion cubic metres (315 billion barrels), with remaining established reserves of almost 28 billion cubic metres (174 billion barrels) at year-end 2004.

The following is more insanity.
The real problem/issue is forced spending of limited public money (percentage of shrinking GDP) which we do not have on green scams that do not work, do not significantly reduce CO2 emissions but do triple the cost of electricity. All the pain for no gain.
The green scams that do not work for basic engineering and economic reasons. That is a fact.

beyond astronomical

http://www.wsj.com/articles/obamas-renewable-energy-fantasy-1436104555

Recently Bill Gates explained in an interview with the Financial Times why current renewables are dead-end technologies. They are unreliable. Battery storage is inadequate. Wind and solar output depends on the weather. The cost of decarbonization using today’s technology (William: Solar and wind power rather than nuclear) is “beyond astronomical,” Mr. Gates concluded.

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/11/22/shocker-top-google-engineers-say-renewable-energy-simply-wont-work/

The key problem appears to be that the cost of manufacturing the components of the renewable power facilities is far too close to the total recoverable energy – the facilities never, or just barely, produce enough energy to balance the budget of what was consumed in their construction. This leads to a runaway cycle of constructing more and more renewable plants simply to produce the energy required to manufacture and maintain renewable energy plants – an obvious practical absurdity.
A research effort by Google corporation to make renewable energy viable has been a complete failure, according to the scientists who led the programme. After 4 years of effort, their conclusion is that renewable energy “simply won’t work”.