Quote:
Originally Posted by nostatic
Somebody has to do it. Or we can just sit back and fiddle while Rome burns. Oh look, more stuff on sale at Walmart!
imho "drill more" is not an energy policy. It is short-sighted. Frankly I don't see very much vision from any candidates. Sadly Gore has some good ideas but he's gone so overboard on the global warming that the rest of the stuff gets dismissed out of hand.
|
I'm with you, but we have to think about where oil goes. Sure, we get gasoline and other fuels from cracking oil, but we get a whole host of other products in the process. So, if we reduce fuel consumption, so must we rely less on the fabrics, car parts, food packaging, carpet, just to think of a few out of 1000's of products developed using byproducts of oil distillation.
Can we do that? Sure, but it won't be easy and it will come at a price to other resources like forests. We will even need to grow more farm crops and raise more livestock, again at the price of forests and natural landscape. And water.
I suppose we better start looking harder at the oceans and see what marine life will yield for our clothing, etc. Imagine your next computer tower and keyboard being a compound of fish bones and animal glue.
Yes, to be free of oil by 2018 is to be free of plastics as well.