To the editor:

Renee Schoof of McClatchy Newspapers was correct in reporting the House Climate Bill would not reduce our dependence on imported oil significantly. (Journal-World, July 4).

The only way to reduce our dependence on imported oil significantly is through the very broad application of some fundamental new type of an advanced alternative energy technology. Not impossible, perhaps, but not very easy to do, either.

The sort of technology needed is a new-concept technology that can convert something we have in great abundance, and/or can produce a lot more of, into a substitute for petroleum oil, or into ethanol, or to yet another alternative transport fuel, or to a lot more electric power to recharge millions of battery-powered vehicles scattered among towns and cities throughout every one of the 3,000-plus counties in the United States, or to all four types of alternative energy.

Preferably all four because there will probably be several types of low- or no-emissions vehicles in our future until the hydrogen-fuel-cell car or another advanced type eventually wins out over each of the others.

This new technology must be broadly applicable in both developed and developing countries if we are to avoid higher oil prices and shortages in oil supply. It’s likely we will see both if we don’t succeed in this effort.

Let’s hope for a beginning of Global Energy Freedom and Independence for the benefit of all the people of the 21st century.