At 10:04 PM 12/2/2009, you wrote:
Dear TC Sustainers:
Though this is not about our region, but it's a big enough story that needs
a response.
Tony--Carbon should stay in the ground. We need to develop
non-carbon-based energy resources as quickly as possible. Of course
the owners of the carbon are determined to promote carbon and do
whatever they can to stave off the rapid development of
non-carbon-based energy since their stockholders stand to make giant
profits from the carbon controlled by their companies. In the mean
time we continue dumping more and more carbon into the atmosphere,
going more and more past the point of no return. The guys at GE
don't want to hear any of this. The only saving grace, if there is
one, is that it will take time and tons of capital to develop the
Bakken reserves. If the recession deepens, which I think it probably
will, the capital will be more difficult to come by and the new oil
will be developed at a later date than projected. Have a wonderful day. Tom
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