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Thought some of you might want to sign this petition...
I don't want this to be a politcal thread. Just wanted to pass the info on:
American Solutions for Winning the Future
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I signed it. The Wallstreet Journal had some interesting commentaries last week about the US oil reserves and our unwillingness to tap them. We are the only country in the world that is purposly not exploiting oil and gas natuaral resources. The other thing we need to do is to get China to stop artificially reducing the gas prices there. They pay about $1 less a gallon due to government subsidies, so their consumption is still skyrocketing.
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Reduced consumption of resources is key to the reduced Human impact on this planet. The last thing we need to do is destroy the planet by drilling for more resources. Higher gas prices is what we need in order to reduce consumption and create more efficient transportation.
The economy runs on oil...but future of the human species is more important than the economy... Just my $0.02
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BTW - some parts of this country are not all that beautiful and I wouldn't mind seeing them defaced if it means that our economy can continue to thrive.
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Plus, in the big picture....screw our economy. I'd rather my decendents have a nice planet to live on, than for me to have inexpensive groceries and fuel.
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Here's something that I caught on Engadget yesterday. Scientists have developed bacteria that eats waste and produces almost car ready oil. The process uses up more CO2 emissions than it produces. Check it out.
Scientists create mutant bugs that produce crude oil, unleash swarm of merciless killers - Engadget Last edited by JuBond : 06-19-2008 at 09:02 AM. |
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there is no way i would sign that..
i am from coastal Louisiana. i have seen the environmental devastation that continues to this day down there from the oil and gas industry. think it's a bunch of hippie tree-hugging hocum? just look at an aerial photo from google maps of land southwest of new orleans...think mother nature carved all of those perfectly straight canals thru the marshland? man carved it up as location canals to get to wellheads which leads to coastal erosion and saltwater intrusion and so forth. beautiful cypress trees have died from the saltwater..groves and groves of them. i see fewer and fewer reptiles and amphibians from years ago. when you catch more and more saltwater fish in traditionally fresh black-water areas where you used to catch bass and perch, something's amiss. here's the punchline...i hold mineral rights to oil and gas leases...i would make an assload of money off of this! i say no.
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How about we change our living habits and move more people within walking or bicycling distance of the things they need to do? I am all for keeping high prices to force long term change and get us out of our cars. That means more open roads for me to drive when I want to drive.
disclaimer: I do live within walking distance of the things I want to do and always have. That is a choice everyone can make. I also have gas rights on land I own in Texas that makes me money. So what. |
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Regarding solar energy cooling the earth, I think that we have enough pavement on this planet absorbing heat emissions from the sun that it would negate any type of cooling effect from solar energy absorbtion. Hydro energy is a bit more tricky and should be moderated. I don't think we need to dam every river out there, but it is defenitely something to investigate. I'm all for cavemen eating raw food. Bring it!
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96 Ferrari F355 Berlinetta 06 Lotus Elise Supercharged - SOLD ![]() 88 BMW 528is Last edited by JUNGLISTluder : 06-19-2008 at 10:33 AM. |
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Environmental issues aside (that's not what this topic is about...this topic is about the prices of fuel and how we can mitigate the costs of fuel during our transition away from 100% dependence on oil)...
The problem is not our dependence on foreign oil. The problem is our lack of oil refineries to process the amounts of oil we could be receiving. Our refinery processes have not kept up with demand. Saud et al. would be happy to sell us all the oil we need.. we just can't process it fast enough to turn around fuel, plastics, etc. The tree-hugger effect should help to mitigate demand temporarily. And although I agree we do need to tap our own resource pools (not only in oil, but also in manufacturing and agriculture....keep the jobs HERE!!!), this is not the primary cause of our (and other country's) rising fuel costs.
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