Re: Let's Go Get the Oil!

On May 1, 4:00 pm, "Steven L." <sdlit...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
SilentOtto wrote:
On May 1, 9:31 am, pdot...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Hillary was in my town here in Indiana last night. I'd never vote for
her in a million years, but I wish I'd have gone to the event and
asked her this question:

I drove through southern Illinois last week. There are hundreds of
oil pumps operating on the farms along the interstate. You can seem
them within a few hundred yards of the interstate. Who knows how many
thousands are operating through the countryside? Just ten miles from
where I sit in north-central Indiana there are operational oil wells.

If we can pump oil out of the ground in our own backyards, why can't
we pump it out of the ground in a frozen wasteland called ANWAR?

http://www.sierraclub.org/pressroom/releases/pr2006-03-07.asp

That's why...

The Sierra Club has no solution to the world's growing energy demand.

There are plenty of others who do.

We just need to bite the bullet and make the investment.

If we had spent the money that we've blown in Bush's oil war on
developing alternative energy there's no telling what we could have
accomplished.

But, that wouldn't have lined the pockets of Cheney's oil cronies.

When I think about all that wasted money, I could puke.

None. Sure, with more efficient cars we can squeeze out more miles per
gallon. But now the Chinese and Indians are buying cars to replace
their bicycles. Where are we going to get the fuel to power ONE BILLION
more cars on this planet?

Right.

So what the hell is the point of wrecking one of the few remaining
pristine ecosystems for a quantity of oil that would be little more
than a drop in the bucket compared to global energy needs?

If you ask me, that would be stupid.

That's why rightards support it.

And what about electricity? The Sierra Club is opposed to coal.

So am I.

It's a filthy way to produce energy.

The "clean coal" bull*** is just that, bull***.

It may be cleaner than it was thirty years ago, but it's still a dirty
way to produce energy.

Coal fired plants spew so much mercury into the environment that
pregnant women can't even eat fish anymore without risking harm to
their babies.

And, that cocksucker Bush raised allowable mercury emission levels
with his "Clean Air Act".

*** coal.

That's another means of power generation that needs to go the way of
the dinosaurs.

The
Sierra Club is opposed to *all* fossil fuels and to nuclear power.
They're even opposed to building dams to generate more hydroelectric
power. So what the heck is left to generate electric power? You would
need to cover over an area the size of Montana with windmills or solar
panels to generate enough wind power. Homeowners aren't installing
solar panels on their roofs, because they're *ugly*.

Nuclear, solar, wind and perhaps wave energy are the best bets for
future energy needs.

The Sierra Club will just have to get over their aversion to Nuclear.

The Sierra Club, like other environmentalists, just say "NO" when it
comes to economic growth and population growth. And that's not a viable
solution. Even if we listened to them, the Chinese won't.

So rant at the Sierra Club about it.

I just posted that link because it was the first that came up in
Google when I typed in "North Slope oil spill" that contained the
information I wanted.

I consider myself something of a realist when it comes to energy and I
firmly believe that we can develop alternatives that have a lot less
impact on the environment than current methods of energy production at
a competitive price.

I realize that we'll need to make trade offs and run some risks, but
I'm confident that we can make it happen if we just exert our energies
in that direction instead of wasting them scrounging around for ever
diminishing sources of oil and blowing huge sums of money trying to
gain control of the oil in other countries.

I'm fully prepared to support Nuclear power, but this time around I
want a complete chain for dealing with the hazards of nuclear power
developed along with the power plants, instead of rushing into with
little thought to the consequences as power companies did in the past.

It wasn't the Sierra Club that sited Nuclear plants on fault lines,
contracted their building out to the lowest bidders who didn't know
what the hell they were doing, gave little thought to dealing with the
issue of nuclear waste and let Three Mile Island happen.

The publics distrust of Nuclear power isn't due to the Sierra Club.

It's due to greed and incompetence on the part of the power companies
who were building and operating them.






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