Kyle R. Mcallister wrote:
from the story you quote:
President Bush's administration goal is to replace 75 percent of
the United States' Middle East oil imports with alternative fuels by
2025.
So what does that mean to you? Anyone else here care to comment?
Well, I'll answer that, sarcastically as always of course. My faith in
anything that El Presidente Bush has to say has dwindled to a record
low, as has his popularity amongst most Americans, it seems. I also find
the statement "75 percent of...Middle East oil imports" a bit fishy.
AFAIK, we import most of our oil from other regions than the middle
east....can anyone comment on this? If that is indeed the case, then it
would amount to cutting 75 percent of XX percent of our total imports of
oil. So what does that help? Not a damned thing, in my opinion.
1. We will still be burning oil without seriously looking into something
else.
2. The supply of oil will remain (relatively) constant, insofar as if we
import only from say South American fields,
In case nobody's noticed, things are hotting up in South America too.
Morale's nationalization of Bolivia's oil fields is surely just the
opening gambit.
I dare say the rulers of Central and South America are quite familiar
with the notion of Peak Oil...
the Middle Easterners will
just sell to someone else. Doesn't really do much to combat the amounts
of money flowing to terrorism from oil exports, does it?
So I am very skeptical of this. And just about anything else the Bush
(or any other recent) administration has to say.
--Kyle
