We should just accept what's happening in the Gulf of Mexico because we need to drive our cars?
LONDON – Oil executives sent a strong challenge to Barack Obama on Tuesday, warning at a major oil conference that the American president's ban on risky deepwater drilling would cripple world energy supplies.Then I think it's time we changed our energy sources, don't you? (How about driving one of these? Electric cars. You can even make your own! Scooters. Bikes. Mass transit.) We have a lot of options that have been ignored while we've been in the clutches of Big Oil.
As a BP executive standing in for embattled CEO Tony Hayward was heckled by protesters, other industry leaders used the gathering to rally around the British company, arguing that eliminating deepsea rigs in the wake of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill was unsustainable.
Obama slapped a six-month moratorium on deepwater drilling in the Gulf as part of his struggle to show that his administration is responding forcefully to the disaster. The decision halted the approval of any new permits for deepwater drilling and suspended drilling at 33 existing exploratory wells in the Gulf.
It's time we talked about a divorce.
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That is a "strong challenge"? Saying that "the American president's ban on risky deepwater drilling would cripple world energy supplies"? To me, that is a statement that we need less fragile energy supplies. Perhaps fossil fuels were great in their day, but this is not their day. What fools these exec's are even to phrase it that way!
They are obliquely threatening us with gas lines, sneaky siphoning of neighbor's cars late at night, fights in the street....
They don't realize how pissed off we are....
Your analogy of a divorce is exactly right: there is a moment, sometimes a moment triggered by a single incident, at which one realizes that a [relationship, energy source] isn't working, can't work, is never going to work, and is wrecking your life. I think we are about at that point with fossil fuels for energy.
The self-designated "energy" companies... face it, they're oil and coal companies; they couldn't pursue another source if their lives depended on it... can probably use their buddies in government to force the issue for another decade or two, probably the rest of my life. But the era of burning carbon for energy is drawing to a close, whoever likes it or doesn't. I have been in the "awl bidness" and can tell you with assurance... I shall not miss it at all. At all.
PS - Is the KymCoJones site to be read as "KymCo Jones," or "Kym Cojones"? Being from a majority-Hispanic state, I thought I'd better ask. :)
I like cojones better...
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