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Personally I think it would be stupid to cause permanent harm for temporary gain. What'll our kids think?
I should care what they think? I raised the little buggers, got them into lucrative trades or paid their ways through college (every nickel) and now on top of that I'm supposed to care what THEY think?
Some people like the way their bodies look with tattoos. Most people don't like the way oceans look with oil rigs sticking out of them or oil spilled all in the water.
What do I care if people don't like to see oil rigs on the water? I don't live on the ocean and those that do are just gonna have to put up with it. If they don't like it they can move; afterall if they're living on the ocean they probably have plenty of dough to do so.
Our domestic oil sources are rather limited, about 11 years' worth at current consumption if we relied solely on our own oil. It's better left in the ground for the future.
Quite so. Regardless of when the time actually comes, there will be at some future point a need to walk away from oil. This is most quickly and particularly true with regard to transportation energy. Meanwhile, the process of converting to some new energy paradigm will be an oil/energy-intensive one. So long as people in other places are willing to sell us their oil at what in the long run are bargain basement prices, we should continue to buy it from them, reserving as much as we can of our own stocks for later use, watching both their utility and their value increase through no more complicated a process than simply leaving them right where they are.
Quite so. Regardless of when the time actually comes, there will be at some future point a need to walk away from oil. This is most quickly and particularly true with regard to transportation energy. Meanwhile, the process of converting to some new energy paradigm will be an oil/energy-intensive one. So long as people in other places are willing to sell us their oil at what in the long run are bargain basement prices, we should continue to buy it from them, reserving as much as we can of our own stocks for later use, watching both their utility and their value increase through no more complicated a process than simply leaving them right where they are.
I know in my heart that we cannot drill our way to abundance and cheap fuel. Our path is conservation of our remaining precious natural resources and finding ways to use and develop sustainable resources. This is our only hope for the future.
Our planet has finite resources, a growing population to use the remaining resources, and weapons that can destroy everything and all of us. It's time to choose a different path. We must learn to conserve. We must learn to share.
So let it be.
In my heart, here's my plan:
Announce drilling plans in ANWAR and offshore. The futures markets (called so because they are predicting oil prices down the road, not today) will fall dramatically with this announcement (somewhere in the neighborhood of $30-$40 bbl.
Actively encourage nuclear power plant construction. You guys all know that France is about 80 percent nuclear and they are not exactly conservation hating neocons)
Ramp up our clean coal program. Coal is this country's oil power.
Use tax incentives to speed up fuel cell development - from lab type models to production capable and ready vehicles.
Continue production cost effective methods of solar and wind in locations where it would have the biggest impact.
Explore ways to make geothermal work on a larger scale. Instead of single home only, look for ways to use in offices, communities, etc.
So my heart of hearts says that the plan must be comprehensive and well coordinated. It must also send a message to other countries.
Conservation will only work if it is government mandated. If you believe that either of our candidates will stand in front of the American people and propose no action to best use our country's brain power to solve a grand problem (like going to the moon) but will force various selective conservation mandates, my read is that it will not happen.
Announce drilling plans in ANWAR and offshore. The futures markets (called so because they are predicting oil prices down the road, not today) will fall dramatically with this announcement (somewhere in the neighborhood of $30-$40 bbl.
Actively encourage nuclear power plant construction. You guys all know that France is about 80 percent nuclear and they are not exactly conservation hating neocons)
Ramp up our clean coal program. Coal is this country's oil power.
Use tax incentives to speed up fuel cell development - from lab type models to production capable and ready vehicles.
Continue production cost effective methods of solar and wind in locations where it would have the biggest impact.
Explore ways to make geothermal work on a larger scale. Instead of single home only, look for ways to use in offices, communities, etc.
So my heart of hearts says that the plan must be comprehensive and well coordinated. It must also send a message to other countries.
Conservation will only work if it is government mandated. If you believe that either of our candidates will stand in front of the American people and propose no action to best use our country's brain power to solve a grand problem (like going to the moon) but will force various selective conservation mandates, my read is that it will not happen.
The most important part of this post Ron was your "knowing all this in your heart." LOL!
Great ideas (with or without "your heart").
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