Never mind that basically ANY resource can be totally depleted if not used wisely and that other generations down the road may want a little of it.
No, it CAN'T be totally depleted. WE determine reserve levels at certain price points. At $40 a B there is a certain amount that is "economically viable", while at $500, there is significantly more. Oil is a CHEMICAL, NOT an element. Even if we did the impossible and used every ounce of the stuff in the ground, we could actually MAKE more. Not "cheap" of course, but possible. Likewise, with the exception of Uranium that is "burned" via a fision reaction, and metals sent outside the planet via space exploration, mined metals and minerals don't go away. They are contained in items. If in the future the mined products are too expensive, then recycling takes over.
Generations down the road would likely perfer we leave them a vibrant economy that grew instead of a depressed economy with plenty of oil.
Oh, and forget actually making SERIOUS efforts at finding alternative fuel sources or.
Like what? It's easy to talk in platitudes. Be specific.
here's an incredibly novel idea.....forcing the auto manufacturers to increase the gas mileage of their products by a meaningful amount and wean Americans off of their gas guzzlers.
How? Will they finally dust of the legendary "100 MPG Carberator"? By forcing certain milage standards, you FORCE people to buy something they didn't want. When you "wean" someone off of their "gas guzzlers", you are taking away their CHOICE.
No, let's just use all the resources we have, pollute all the air and allow the water to become undrinkable.
Again, be specific. How is it that the right is currently trying to "pollute the air and water, and use up all our resources" (considering "using them up" is physically impossible)?
But why bother trying to conserve when it would surely piss off the Republicans best friends....Big Oil?
It's comical that the left likes to accuse the pres of doing all this for "big oil" when the Clintons actually laid the groundwork for the current mess. Remember, the Reno justice dept is the one that approved all the mergers between the oil companies. Do you think ticket prices would be higher with only three much larger Airlines? the same principle works with oil companies. And I guess when Bush is pushing Nuke power, thats actually to try to help his oil buddies. And when Cuomo shut down the Shoreham Nuclear power plant, and replaced it with oil fired gens, that was to help the consumer and show the oil interests who's boss. Get real.
If you want to 'help the big oil interest' then restrict drilling so that prices stay very high.
But then you're the very first ones to try and have the government tell us everything from who to worship and when to pray to who we can and can't love.
I frankly don't care, I just don't want you trying to force my schools to teach my kids that it's "normal"
By the way, Busdriver....are you a pilot? Are you a union member? Be careful, those labor unions are dangerous. I say you cast off the chains of your union and just be happy to have a job and work for whatever management decides to pay you.
Yes, and yes. However, I'm a realist. I have issues with so called labor leaders (IAM) who profess idealic union values only to be the first to cross a picket line and do struck work when it benefits them. As a union member with extensive economic training (to include labor econ), I know I can't legislate myself to prosperity. I know for me to get a big paycheck, I must pervert the market. I know this may not be the "free market solution". The differance is I know and admit exactly what I am trying to accomplish with my union and the mechanisms for success. To often we play a game with management, on their court by their rules, and wonder why we lose. I say to win, you must first learn to play the game, and how to twist the "rules" to your benefit.
Do you drive one of those Hummers or Expeditions or Suburbans?
Yukon XL. Along with two other cars, one of which gets around 40 MPG.
Not only did John Kerry not say that you could not own an SUV,
When you dictate MPG standards, you limit consumer choice.
And, I don't think recommending criminal acts over conservation shows a sane turn of mind. I've never seen one of your posts that suggests that a way to solve the energy crisis is to CONSERVE energy.
I agree, and I recognize conservation as a FACTOR. But even if we just "conserve", then we'll right back here in 5 years, more dependant on foreign oil. I'm for alternate fuels and more domestic production to bridge the gap.
No this President just set the record for the most time on vacation passing another republican ronnie reagen.
He flew all the way to TX. Not exactly the same as the trips around the world.
