Funny thing, there's an anti-wind power movement as well, borrowing many of the
same arguments that anti-oil protesters use.
-- Matt
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From: Dan Minette <[email protected]>
To: Killer Bs (David Brin et al) Discussion <[email protected]>
Sent: Mon, May 3, 2010 12:06:49 PM
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Sent: Monday, May 03, 2010 12:50 AM
To: Killer Bs (David Brin et al) Discussion
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>Hi Dan, I'm glad to see you're still around and that you've
>escaped Houston.
Thanks, it's beautiful where we live.
The problem with your suggestion is that, without only onshore production,
and not counting the Alaska Wildlife Refuge, we only are left with about a
quarter of the probable reserves.
>You used to argue that off shore drilling was safe, an argument that,
>as you have noted, has quite literally been blown out of the water.
>Drilling in a protected shore would be no different than drilling in
>Yosemite or Yellowstone.
Well, I'm just pointing out that the California wants to protect the whole
coast but has been happy driving cars with gas refined near Houston from
offshore GOM. Why is the GOM shoreline so much lower in value the
California shoreline? And, if you stop offshore drilling, you are left with
fields deep in their decline. If you exclude the Alaska Wildlife Refuge and
offshore, you're down 75% in recoverable oil. Basically, we'll be importing
90% of our oil.
So, on shore only means soon importing 90% of our oil from Iran and Saudi,
and Kuwait, and Nigeria...
Dan M.
If anything good is to come out of this disaster, its that we'll be
taking a closer look at offshore drilling, and that nobody will even
be suggesting that we rape the California coast for a few buckets of
oil.
Beyond that, you're right, we should stop using fossil fuels as
quickly as is practicable. I favor large state and federal taxes on
gas and oil to subsidize research and development on alternatives and
the development of mass transit. Maybe in light of this debacle a few
more people will see it my way.
Doug
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