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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.
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. 11 years isn't much time, not enough to justify the destruction it would cause to the environment. We aren't going to solve our energy problems by sucking our own oil reserves dry.
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.
You "know it in your heart"? Well, that's good enough for me!
If we want to avoid 4 billion dead by 2020, yes we need oil and lots of it. We need to transition to alternative fuels but its not going to happen overnight. We need to do whatever it takes to keep our society around for the time it will take to transition. This includes drilling AND Obama's Apollo program for alternative energy.
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.
Personally I think it would be stupid to cause permanent harm for temporary gain. What'll our kids think?
If we have kids....
People aren't getting the big picture.
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