Misleading thinking yet again. The only gas getting cheaper these days is at Taco Bell. (Ouch.) Not even if we started drilling tomorrow folks. Wouldn’t. Make. A. Difference. Not in this instant gratification world of ours. No, the benefits—if there are any—would take some time to materialize. Funny how they leave that part out of it on Faux News. (I’m surprised they haven’t blamed Canada for not sharing more than the 40% we already get.) Ironic too: We should think long-term when it comes to finding new places to drill, but not when it comes to developing and switching over to alternative fuel sources.
Dead dinosaurs are here now people, we need to drill! Hurry before they vanish—again.
Much as I love conspiracies, I’m also not prepared to agree with the conductor on the way home last night who theorized that we’re in yet another deliberately created ‘shortage’ like the one in the seventies many of us experienced. However, I will ask the redundant question of how the fuck is it that we keep putting ourselves in this position? Let’s put an ad spin on it and just say the strategy from the brief is off: we don’t need to stop our dependence on foreign oil—we need to stop our dependence on oil itself. (Daryl Hannah, Willie Nelson and the Air Force’s coal-based fuel trials notwithstanding.)
Dig all you want domestically, but what’s to prevent another round of price hikes in 20 years when the oil companies feel like it. Hannity wouldn’t have anyone to blame then.
Tags: ANWR
2 comments:
It's all about priorities, Bill. I'm not a liberal fanatic, but I'm pretty sure that if we had diverted some of that war dough to alternative fuel research and implementation, we'd probably have a solution by now. $800B buys a lot of science.
Nuclear energy (clean and cheap).
Shale oil (dirty and expensive but available at these prices).
Drilling wherever there is oil no matter what animal is inconvenienced.
Three realistic moves that buy us a few hundred years.
Is it the high price of oil or the lack of its availability that moves the politicians? Seems that the higher the price of oil, the more conservation is triggered.
Twice in the 70s (Nixon and Carter) tried price controls, and all it engendered was shortages and lines and long faces on the politicians who probably couldn't even pump a tank at a self-service station.
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