Nosmo King
Gold Member
Sophistry indeed.
A quick glance at your list reveals that the great majority of the oil spills were caused by tankers. If you stop drilling in the Gulf, we will still need Oil. We will purchase it from foreign governments and corporations. They will transport it to us using...you guesed it, TANKERS!!! You will put more tankers on the seas even though Offshore oil wells are far safer than tankers. Yeah, that makes a lot of sense......
So, you sound as if you're about ready to climb aboard a green energy bandwagon. Oil is a finite resource, we ain't makin' anymore of it. It's dirty, difficult to obtain due to either its location geographically or politically. It's expensive.
Even your boy W said we Americans are 'addicted to oil'! Maybe it's time to put a moonshot type of program into place to finally rid ourselves of this dangerous and dirty addiction.
We can't supply ourselves with oil. Our reserves aren't that big and our appetite is too ravenous. To sustain this course means an inevitable series of ecological disasters. Those cost money (I'm trying to put things in terms you can appreciate as the damage to the environment is a topic Conservatives never want to actually face, where money is like jingling key in front of a nine month old)
So, how about it? Are you ready to stop fighting for oil, worrying about its cost and its access and scale our consumption back to sustainable levels?