Oil is running out and coal burning is cooking the planet. The Obama administration just passed a stimulus bill with billions in it for alternative energy development. The question that remains is whether or not wind, solar and other renewables can actually provide for current energy needs.

Many experts argue that renewable energy energy can effectively replace fossil fuels, while others have taken the current energy crisis as an opportunity to promote increased use of nuclear power and 'clean coal' energy.

Even if renewables can supply our current energy needs, do we really want them to? Do we want to repower the same systems of domination (with alternatives to fossil fuels) that got our world into the mess it's in today?

For those of you interested there is a great new website created by a non-profit in Santa Monica called Alternative Energy ProCon.org that has hundreds of experts answering questions about alternative energy in a Pro/Con format.

After reading through some of the questions, I guarantee that at least some of your assumptions about alternative energy will be challenged.

what the heck is this flummery? Right from the start, you open yourself to derision.

" running out and coal burning is cooking the planet."

This is a often repeted mantra without scientific consensus.

What we Do Know is that GMOs are killing the bees. chemical polution is causing skyrockerting cancer rates, the nuclear industry has left us with radioactive global contamination, over-harvesting is raping our planet and greed together with lying bastards are stealing our common birth rights.

And now they want a tax on CO2 which has very little to do with any of the above.

Indoctrinated dicks.