Lets go Green !!!

Sea Demon · 11-04-09, 02:37 AM

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Originally Posted by Zachstar

As long as we are using more oil than our wells that are running TODAY are producing we are one way or another buying terrorist oil.

New production takes 10 years from approval to market. = useless

Tho I have to admit I am intrigued by the idea of using laser cutting to recover more oil in existing sites. It uses alot more power but it is fast and does not contact the surface. They are saying it could cut down drilling on land by a third.

You see despite the shrill calls to give the oil companies whatever the hell they want. They can and are evolving on their own. And boatloads of new tech investments are slowly but surely starting to reduce the need for oil. Of course my favorite is Algae oil. But things such as replacing oil plastics with american grown bioplastics are good investments as well in my opinion.

This is precisely why the Democrats are going to have trouble in the future. With the cost of generating electricity being expensive and rising, this is pie in the sky stuff. Not worthless by any means. But we need oil resources today to drive and grow our economy. This is not an overnight process. The cost, current strain, current supply, and demand for oil is another reason why the economy is struggling. The highly touted "green jobs" vision just ain't happening in the now. Nor is it coming in the near term.

And BTW, 15 years ago, the "it takes 10 years to bring it online" argument was used. We shouldn't have listened to liberals. Had we not, we would have another stream of oil resources, and the supply wouldn't be as strained as it is. In reality, Oil, nuclear, coal, and natural gas aren't going anywhere for awhile. Believe what you want. It won't help the Democrats in anyway to continue to keep the American people from resources it has, needs, and can develop and use on it's own to get the economy growing. Developing alternatives is nice, but that alone is going to hurt the Democrats as energy gets ever more expensive to produce in the future if they continue down this road of alternatives as the primacy to the detriment of needed resources now.