Originally Posted by Cyclone85  I've never seen so much fatalism in my life; it's almost impossible to defeat. I (on the other hand) accept the fact that we have at least 200-hundred years of proven reserves (close at hand) that are off-limits. Off-limits in the interior, off-limits close to our shores, and off-limits further from our shores. You haven't dealt with the national security risk that we have (and is real) and you seem unwilling to bend despite the grave risk.
You haven't dealt with semis that need oil and diesel, polymers that need oil, tractors that need oil and diesel, the 200,000,000 existing U.S. cars that need oil and gas, jets that need kerosene/jet fuel, school buses that need oil and diesel,factories that need oil and grease, not to the mention the multiple dozens of other critical uses that oil is needed for. The need for oil will *NEVER EVER* go away and it's people like you that will drive the world into an economic depression; not me.
Until we can run cars and jets on grass clippings or water, we need oil. Fortunately, the tide is turning and people get it now. It may not come to fruition this election, but for sure -- the next one when gas is $7 or higher. |
Looks like you didn't read carefully enough - I said I'm in favor of more drilling. However, we need to put a ton of the money into alternative energies because the oil is running out. I'm not sure where you get your information from, but I advise you talk to a geologist and they can explain to you that oil is a finite resource and that it only becomes concentrated under unique geological conditions. Again, there is a ton of oil still in the ground, but a lot of it requires more energy to access & extract than it actually produces.
You should look at the statistics - most of the large oil fields around the world are in decline. Most pronounced is Mexico, the United States, Russia, and the North Sea, among others. With new discoveries and development, the best we can hope for is to keep oil output constant or just increase it a tiny bit. Logic and science tells us that the oil that can be produced economically will inevitably decline. Nobody knows exactly when this because there are a lot of human factors, but it could be now.
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