Let's kill all the remaining whales, too

[Jed Rothwell]

Zell, Chris wrote:

Note the quote advocating "universal nimbyism"  and doing everything 
to increase industry costs.

Explain how it would reduce industry costs to build unnecessary 
refineries when the total volume of oil can only decrease rapidly in 
the coming decades.

Chris, you need a reality check. Even some of the top oil industry 
executives now admit that oil supplies have peaked. If you are living 
on Easter Island and you have one tree left standing, why would you 
bother to build a new sawmill? How will that reduce the cost of lumber?

Your suggestion is similar to the notion that we should combat Third 
World starvation by building a thousand more large fishing boats -- 
factory scale ships. The problem is, fish populations have crashed in 
every ocean and there are no more fish to catch, and if we build more 
fishing boats we will simply hasten the day when the remaining stocks 
of edible fish are driven to extinction.

That gives me an idea. While we are building more refineries, let us 
also hunt down the remaining blue whales and right whales, and use 
the oil from them too.

- Jed