The Green Dilemma

Let’s talk about the problems with “Going green.” First off, the government can never regulate it without absolute expectation to fail. As stated, “America must take the lead in solving the world’s big problem,” there is no funds. No doubt more levied taxes would pay for it, but with the taxpayers already swamped with an immense national debt, there is no way for them to afford any more expenditures. On average, each American, not taxpayer, would already have to pay over 50 grand to simply break even on the national debt. With an average household containing, recorded by the most recent 2012 census, 2.5 persons, that means that each household (not taxpayer) would have to pay over $250,000 to break even on national debt. Now, would it be responsible or smart to “Take charge on solving the world’s big problem,”? With an increasing inflation rate, the US dollar is losing more and more power in the world. If we have less spending power worldwide, even if we revolutionized biofuel, there would be no profit margin. With no profit margin there can be no incentive to do it.

If companies are forced to “Shoulder the financial burden,” then they will simply shut down. With already crippling levels of Government regulation on business, decreasing the profit margin greatly, how can we expect the government to force a business to shoulder a financial burden like that? If we allow the government to “Limit the people,” , then we slip away from capitalism and right into the hand of socialism. But that’s not all bad, I suppose, it worked out really well for Greece. Even more, if we slip even further into straight Marxist Communism, that may even work as well for us as it did for the Soviet Union. Is it right to force an oil company to shut down because we have started down the path to biofuels? Think of all the jobs in the oil field. This would greatly increase the unemployment rate, cripple the economy, and turn the United States upside down; essentially sending us into a depression worse than that of the Great Depression. The “Economy will crumble,” is an understatement.

As stated, “locally produced biofuels would require ‘500 million acres of U.S. land.’” How do we go about obtaining more land? Do we buy the border of Canada? It’s just simply not feasible from either side of practicality or monetarily. “The selling of the green economy involves much economic make-believe,”, this in an understatement. If we analyze Source B, we can find that in Singapore there are, “4 million rides per day on the public transit system while there are only 3 million private auto trips.” This may be a result of the, “$10,000 for a midsize car permit,”. In other words, its costs this much to buy a permit to buy a car. Would it be fair, in the United States, for the government to levy such a tax and tell us what we can or cannot buy? Even more, the 10 grand goes back into the public transit system.

In conclusion, going Green, while good in theory, is just simply undoable in the current state; that is without completely destroying the economy. Until we “run out of natural resources,”, we should continue using what we have and know. Natural resources may run out, and if they do then green energy would be the answer; but the thing out the Earth is; it regulates itself. While we have turned to green energy when our resources have run out, there will be a many year span until more oil is stored under the crust. Then, when there is a surplus again, people will revert back to oil fuel mainly because it’s easy, profitable, and universal. We are reaching an era when (between massive generation spans) we shall fluxuate between green energy and fossil fuel energy.