caucagua1 asked:
Supposedly we have the largest oil-shale deposits in the world right here in the USA and untold amounts in Alaska. Is this not a National Security issue worth putting aside some petty conservationists demands in order to stop FUNDING the very same groups who are intent on our demise? Imagine the boost to our own economy with huge investments in these areas and the countless jobs and businesses that would spring up at home.
Supposedly we have the largest oil-shale deposits in the world right here in the USA and untold amounts in Alaska. Is this not a National Security issue worth putting aside some petty conservationists demands in order to stop FUNDING the very same groups who are intent on our demise? Imagine the boost to our own economy with huge investments in these areas and the countless jobs and businesses that would spring up at home.
Because america consumes billions of barrels of oil a day. You expect it all to come from two sources?
We need to but every time someone mentions developing these areas for oil, the environmentalists go apoplectic with rage. ANWR (the North Slope) was only going to be drilled in the winter (when there are no animals there) and only in an area of about 200 acres but the left-wing, global warming alarmists had a fit anyway. Their argument was in defense of the Caribou that are smart enough to be much further south during the winter! Maybe Caribou are smarter than environmentalists.
In spite of all that, oil from Green River and Alaska are only stop gaps at best. We need to create some new energy sources that are reliable, safe, and cheap. Unfortunately, many on the left are closet Luddites so they reject the very technology that - given a chance - may well provide those future sources of energy.
because the slowness of government and the interference of environmental groups has made us a blundering country willing to take the easy route…as soon as we are forced into a corner, we will solve the energy problem and then go on leading the world for the next 150 years, if not forever…
are you kidding? we can’t disturb the caribou!
Expense is one reason. The technology needed to produce substantive crude from shale is very expensive. Oil companies are doing fine with crude oil production as it is, so why bother right now. A fundamental shift in the view of how to use our natural resources would be needed. Right now, we’re more concerned with “global warming” and saving weeds. It’s a matter of priorities.