I believe the USA can be energy independent with nothing more than full development of agriculturally derived, sustainable, renewable methane.
Thanks to the fracking boom, pretty much everything can be run on natgas (methane) at this point. And we have existing huge interstate transport pipelines and vast distribution pipeline infrastructures in our cities and towns.
It’s true we’d have to spend a fraction of the amount of money we’re spending on slaughtering brown people and propping up corrupt corporate welfare schemes to build out the crop digesters, which might be built on the old rail depots that served America’s distributed agricultural system before corporate agrimegamonoculture, using the rail right-of-ways to connect into new and existing pipelines. Such investments aren’t real palatable to Washington, and certainly not to Texas.
But jobs, green jobs, healthy jobs, sustainable jobs, a carbon neutral energy independent future… What’s not to like for regular folks?
