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DOOMSDAY FACTS BROUGHT TO YOU BY AL GORE…
By scenequeen | July 25, 2008
Good Ol’ Al Gore is putting on his environmentally friendly ninja gear once again to fight for our earth! Gore gave a speech last week revealing some promising facts on using renewable energies. Here are some of the facts:
- In 1995, the United States got about 2.2 percent of its net electricity generation from “renewable” sources, according to the Energy Information Administration (EIA).
- By 2000, the last full year of the Clinton administration, that percentage had dropped to 2.1 percent.
- By contrast, the combined share of coal, petroleum and natural gas rose to 70 percent from 68 percent during the same time frame.
According to EIA estimates:
- The use of renewables (minus hydropower) could rise to 201 billion kilowatt hours per year in 2018 from the current 65 billion.
- Total net generation in 2018 will only be 4.4 trillion kilowatt hours per year.
- That would put the total share of renewables at just over 4 percent of our electricity needs.
Be kind and rewind….or stop buying bottled water and stuff….
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