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Also...if we do develop something like that plan to use planes to release aerosols into the atmosphere to cool the planet, and that works well enough that global warming is no longer a huge concern, and clean (ish) coal tech's work out well enough, from just the standpoint of resource conservation, the world has A TON more coal than it does oil. We're not going to have to worry about running out of coal for quite some time.
I do have concerns about perpetually dumping more and more sunlight-reflecting, planet-cooling aerosols into the atmosphere as a long-term solution though....cheap though it sounds like it could be.
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Higher pricing makes fossil fuels more profitable and encourage discovery. Makes tar sands, fracking, north slope Alaska oil attractive for bidding. Higher energy costs will mean that you will attempt to reduce energy expenses which will cause investments into a new tech energy & jobs more attractive.
^^^ Lefties don't want to address any of this stuff when they cheer for their side.
The left will destroy America in the name of saving the planet...all the while causing increased damage to the planet.
Because it's nonsense. We have a finite amount of oil. The best thing for America is probably getting away from oil before the other nations start scrambling to compete over it, and so that we don't have to bow and scrape to the middle East anymore.
What's so hard to understand about this? Completely regardless of global warming (which, if anyone doesn't take it seriously, they need to get their head examined) it makes a lot of sense to try to move society away from oil. Hence my previous analogy early on this thread about a car driving towards a cliff edge and having the option of #1. driving off the cliff, #2. making a slow easy turn away or #3. Making a screeching turn at the last possible second that sends the family dog flying into the windshield.
Given human nature, I'd be surprised if we don't go the #3 route.
If this season wasn't an indication of what we are in for nothing is, ran the alphabet on hurricanes and then there was several historic fires. What does it take to get peoples attention. Worrying about an increase of a few cents at the gas pump compared to the damage that will be done is short sighted.
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