There seems to be this misconception that drilling for more oil will miraculously fix our current economic crisis (trying really hard not to place blame...). You don't just wake up one day, decide to drill, and tomorrow have 20% more crude. It takes a many years, even decades to see the return on a drilling investment (as a nation), an investment that yields absolutely no technological advances in the way of sustainable energy. So, instead of investing in renewable energy now, we are supposed to invest in oil so that in 10-20 years we'll be worse off than we are now? This rattles every fiscally conservative born in my body... not to mention the environmentalist ones...
I want to remove our dependency on foreign oil as much as the next man, but replacing it with a dependency on our own (limited) supply doesn't solve the problem, it just delays it, and at a huge cost to future generations.
More over, it *might* be nice to save some of that petroleum for things other than fuel. Plastics and many other vital products require oil as well. We might not want to burn it all.
Man, my political to baby post ratio is on the rise... more light hearted stuff to come...
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