U.S.A continues to search for new oil sources like a retard, instead of eliminating the root of the problem: the dependency on oil in the first place. It is amazing that in 2008 the U.S still continues to use massively an energy source from the 19th Century. The burning of oil prduces far more carbon monoxide than the burning of alchols, for instance, and yet the U.S refuses to utilize that energy source because it requires a large initial investement, even though it becomes very cost-effective once you have the refineries installed for processing. Americans' colossal greed and stupidity will destroy Planet Earth. This single country with only 4% of the World's population is responsible for one third of all toxic wastes expelled into the air, oceans, rivers and ground.
SUCKMYMUSCLE
exactly - fuck the wildlife who would die with all this drilling, fuck the atmosphere and the planet we want cheap fucking gas !!! get a grip of yourselves people.
you were told there would be cheaper gas after the 1st war in Iraq - it went up.
you were told you'd have cheaper gas after the 2nd war in Iraq - it went up
now your being told if you ruin wildlife reserves, etc etc you'll have cheaper gas
trust me it will go up again.
the only constant in this is ( and you can look this up) the oil company's are making record profits year after year.
The U.S. and the world is doing this as we speak, better cars, nuclear power, solar, wind new sources of biofuels...the list goes on. In the mean time the U.S. must exploit its domestic sources to be able to purchase oil not from state owned OPEC companies but from U.S. firms from U.S. sources. I know it is a global market and the price will be the same whoever you buy it from, but we will be buying domestic. This will cut our trade deficit (400 billion dollars from imported oil or 50% of our total trade deficit) strengthen our dollar and will even provide jobs sourced from local sites and hired nationally for this endeavor. Hell, our natural gas deposits could be used to replace imported oil in the short and intermediate term until nuclear and other green and sustainable sources are developed.
You know, it would be cute to say "hey, forget the oil and do something else man!!!" and then snap your fingers and magically we are energy independent but that is an amateurish and naive way to look at it. You can't be energy independent without producing more domestically, that means oil and electricity.
you need to get your head out of your ass. it is well known oil is running out, it has been known since the 70's that we had reached a peak and it was all running dry.
now 30+ years later and they still haven't come up with something
it would be cute if people weren't so fucking dumb to magically believe that 30+ years isn't enough to develop one of the countless cheaper/more efficient/ cleaner forms of energy production that have been discovered by the scientific community since the 70's.
but hey fuck all that shit - i want cheaper fucking gas
so sad
