| Re: Offshore drilling, ANWR & immidiate relief.
Absolutely not. Nor would it bring any form of relief - what it would do is nothing more than at the sacrifice of years of conservation of the area bring about a false sense of hope and security.
In reality it would only put the mindset to instead of tapping into a golden opportunity of market force development of alternative resources, more efficient and conservation minded technology.
It's only a matter of time before fossil fuels run out - that is the plain simple reality, you'd only be delaying the inevitable. With economic growth at let's just say 4~5% our demand for energy would only continue to rise. What the past has shown is that cheap oil only makes us even more reliant on it - there's no free market force to push in that direction and the blood sucking power hungry politicians won't do anything of sensibility for said technologies.
It would be nice to have a bit of an ease on the continuous rise of oil prices at the pump at least a leveling off so as to allow for the technology to make it to the market.
But in desperate times come brilliant innovation. This nation is definitively a nation of some amazing innovation - with the invisible hand pushing in the same direction I wouldn't be surprised if we will see this technology come out sooner than later. |