On 26 Sep, 2005, at 10:18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Henk: My point was.. and to make it fishing related.. We hop in our
BIG Gas
Guzzling SUV's (At least in the US).. and drive 100's or 1000's of
miles to
fish.., and demand that the Oil be there when we want it... We
cannot have
our "cake and eat it too" so to speak... We can't go using MORE oil
everyday, and not end up having to drill outside the Arab
countries... That
is a fact.. I'm no PhD, but supply and demand is what dictates
here... We
want the oil, then we will (eventually) Have to drill in our own
back yard..
The planet is only so big...Am I wrong again??? Cause if the planet is
growing, please correct me there too...Chuck
Well, it may be accreting extraterrestrial stuff at a slow rate (just
as some scientists argue that most of our water, and at least some of
our original biological macromolecules came from outer space ;-)),
but that won't be nearly enough to fulfil our growing fossil fuel
demand...
You're quite correct of course to state that IF you (we) want to
continue and increase our energy-rich activities, we should a] take
responsibility for that and b] potentially develop alternative
sources of fuel, or alternative energy sources altogether.
Whether drilling in sensitive ecosystems (and arctic ecosystems are
very sensitive, primarily because biology is so slow there due to low
temperatures) is a responsible solution to the very real problem
outlined above is quite another matter.
That diminishing dependence on outside sources of energy/fuel is a
good thing (whether for the US or for the EU) is without question.
Cheers
Henk
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