Is the Problem with Renewable Energy, the Fact that We Do Not Have Any Control Over It?

Today I paid $3.09 per gallon at the pump. Before I put the gas in the tank my car would drive another 40 miles, now I can drive another 100 miles, as the meter says I have 140 miles. So I basically paid for 3 plus gallons, and can get 33 plus miles per gallon.

But the energy is not renewable; energy is lost in the conversion, energy is supplemented by a car battery, which is responsible for powering the energy to even extract energy from the fuel to begin with, efficiency can vary depending on the temperature, age, and wear and tear of the parts of the car. We are in a situation where we have to spend billions of dollars to go into the ground, find oil, and then transport that oil to gas stations, put it in the ground, and then pump it into our car, and then convert it. In each stage of the process, the potential for energy is lost, something is evaporated, something has changed.

So it does not matter if I can get 33 miles per gallon, which is questionable, and relies on me driving on the highway at 55 mph, or 70 miles per gallon; what good is 70 miles per gallon when billions of dollars is spent behind the scenes to deliver a gallon to me?

Renewable energy, is energy that is produced, by the reaction to what occurs naturally, on our planet, in our solar system. The wind blows, the Earth has its own gravitational pull, and is pulled, by the sun, clouds are produced and rain falls. None of these circumstances, are anything that man has control over; sure we can attempt to manipulate these conditions, through HAARP and other technologies, but we are still beholden to God, to Mother Earth, to nature, and we cannot simply "create" energy; we are waiting around for situations to occur, and hopefully, we are there to "collect" energy as it occurs.

Can we rely on renewable energy for our needs, specifically, our transportation needs? Should we simply build everything closer together, so that we can walk to our destination if need be? Renewable energy only provides 18 percent of the electricity that we use. It may never provide 100 percent. The other 82 percent of our electricity, is still provided through diminishing means, that are not renewable.

In order to get energy, you need energy. Just like the old saying "it takes money to get money", it takes energy to build, transport, distribute, refine, extract, or "create", energy. The time will come when the only energy we have is what little bit we can get through renewables. We do not even know if the 18 percent we get from renewables now, will be there once that time comes. What we do know, is that the 18 percent is not sufficient for our energy needs at the moment.

If we were to totally rely on renewables, life would slow down. Cars, buses, motorcycles, scooters, would not go as fast as they do now. It is questionable if flight would even be possible. Computers would not be used to the extent as they do now; if you only have a few hours of electricity, are you going to waste it on Facebook and Twitter, are you going to watch videos on YouTube? The world may change as we know it. Perhaps it needs to change, perhaps we should change before that time comes ...