Pudfark wrote:We have the oil, the capability and the technology to develop it. We have oil in abundance. Why are you so interested in saving it to be resold for a large profit in the future? How would that concept benefit the average American now or then.
first off, we(nobody) has oil in abundance, when you look at the consumption curve 10 years out. How does my way of thinking benefit the average American? By avoiding a world in which everything that we now take for granted by way of energy and petroleum based products(read plastics) is either gone or priced out of their reach in a decade or two.
We need cheap energy, whose source we control.
we need girls with big tits serving us martinis and crab cakes......just because we need it, doesn't mean it happens in the real world, Pud. This is a global economy, and unless someone figures out a whole new source of power, there just isn't that much by way of cheap, controllable energy. Luckily, for Americans, we DO have huge reserves of natural gas, at some environmental cost, but we still have far too much transportation, electric production and manufacturing dependant on crude oil.
Affordable alternative energy does not exist at this time. So, common sense suggests that we use what we have, our own uninterruptable supply of oil. We use it now. Our oil is cheaper than their oil. Why? Because a hell of a lot of it is on Federal Land owned by all of us.
what we have to do is think further into the future. We better, because our major competitor is. The US developed solar technology, but what country pumps the most government cash into it? China. So, now, guess who owns the solar manufacturing market? That is long-term, global thinking......something the US used to do, before everyone got greed happy.
Some day Slick...we gotta get together for a lite libation...and agree to only talk about fishing...
well, you'll have to come north, because I'll be damned if I want to step foot into Texas.
