Posted by
Andrews on Friday, August 08, 2008 4:23:52 PM
If I told you that my profession was living off my savings you would thin I didn't really understand what a job is, yet people think "conservation" is an energy policy. We may be able to reduce our consumption to some degree, but that will continue to be offset by increasing demands from other nations, growth in our own economy, and diminishing returns from known wells. Unless we explore to find new wells, if only to replace those that run dry, we will find ourselves with ever more expensive energy, which will result in a gradually diminishing standard of living.
Of course, the opponents of drilling point to these supposed "green" and "renewable" sources of energy, but I have already shown how little likelihood they have of working at present technology. And hoping that technology will improve greatly before our wells run dry seems suicidal. The opponents of drilling say it takes 10 years to get a well on line, so, doesn't it make more sense to start drilling now, so in 10 years we have oil, rather than to continue putting it off in hopes that maybe, somehow, we will find more energy from another source? That seems a recipe for disaster.
Or is it possible that, maybe they aren't suicidal, but just oppose drilling to keep prices high until Obama wins? They couldn't be that opportunistic, could they?