Are you truly naive enough to think opening oil drilling off-shore in florida or up in alaska is going to lower our fucking gas prices? Seriously?
second, so what? You act like increased domestic supply is a bad thing. We're not getting off oil anytime soon, might as well. If its not urgent now itl be urgent in 10 years. Except if we START now, that drilling would actually help - 10 years down the line.
Couldn't fucking hurt?
You say wind/nuclear shit like im against it. Im not. I want to do everything, not be all selective and pick and choose which methods.
What if - hypothetically - we don't develop shit? Like, NOTHING would be viable. Shit just doesn't work out like we planned.
Then we're kind of in deep shit 20 years from now, eh?
If we have massive drilling operations off our coasts and in alaska, we might just be a tad better off. Better safe than sorry.
We can't "get off oil" any more than we can stop breathing.
.You do realize that there is very sophisticated nuclear and wind technology, right?
yes, triple, we're the ones being shortsighted.
you do realize this is a limited resource, right?
You do realize that there is very sophisticated nuclear and wind technology, right? You've been so used to thinking this is idealistic hippie shit that you've stopped paying attention to reality.
The wind tech could be implemented in massive scales this year. There's no excuse, and the reason folks roll their eyes at morons screaming about ANWaR is because it indicates how clueless they are about our needs and what our options are.
Solar energy is also fairly mature, although i think it's smarter to wait a few more years for it to mature even more... before investing in large scale implementation. Then again, it wont progress and get cheap if we dont use it.
In the same fucking time it would take to rebuild all our refineries, start taking in oil from new offshore drilling and from ANWaR... we could have moved ahead with nuclear plant development, large scale wind systems and some initial municipality scale solar projects.
We need to be the cutting edge in this technology, not stuck in oil barron mindsets.
I forget where I read it, but someone worked out the math and found that increasing MPG standards in the US by just 4 MPG would result in a net oil savings per day that would exceed ANWR output.
so why don't we just increase MPG standards?