Google genius solves U.S. energy crisis in spare time, still stumped by ‘girls’

Why does it take Google to do real math and create a policy suggestion for ending our nation’s energy crisis? (Don’t we have government types who are supposed to generate these types of plans?)

So while our politicians are scrambling desperately to bail out the sinking financial Titanic they themselves have allowed to side-swipe sub-prime icebergs in recent years, Google has been figuring out how to save the country.

Not that I expect anyone to listen to them.

Google thinks they have a plan that can reduce America's oil dependence by 33%, our fossil fuel-based electricity usage by 88%, and our personal vehicle CO2 emissions by 95% (among other improvements), through a combination of wind, solar, geothermal, plug-in vehicles, and conventional fuel vehicle efficiency.

All that, they believe, can be accomplished by 2030 for an estimated cost of $4 trillion. Sure, it sounds like a lot on the surface, but the long-term net savings to the country will be around $1 trillion in 2030 (assuming of course that our ‘representative’ government officials don't screw it up).

Despite my misgivings about some of Google's business practices, I still have more faith in their “Clean Energy 2030” plan than any current politician's plan, Democrat or Republican.

It’s embarrassing, isn’t it? We're in the middle of the most serious energy crisis in generations, and the only plans our politicians can muster are politically motivated, effectively impotent and/or bloated with pork.

Is the problem that they’re incompetent, malevolent or is it that we let them get away with quick-fix, short-sighted, knee-jerk reactionary “solutions” that just end up screwing us later (once they’re out of office)?

Clearly, we need a better class of leader in this country. Because when a business feels that it needs to take time away from making truckloads of money in order to ensure that 28 years in the future there will still be a place to spend all that money, you know that we, as a country, are in deep, deep trouble.