You and Ed Begley can drive your EV1's and Prius's all you want, your
> free to protest the nuclear plants, (that really helped BTW) and tear down
> the hydroplants. Oil is here, will stay a major source of power for > several
> more generations. If the green people had a lick of sense, they would be
> devoting their resources into ways to generate electricity (massive > amounts)
> without using fossil fuels. They would buy products made locally, not > from
> places that have to ship them across the ocean in fuel guzzling ships. > They
> would only use natural fibers (cotton - animal fur) not synthetic ones > made
> from petroleum.
>
> The hypocrisy and self aggrandizement is amazing.
>Michael Daly said:
>You seem to think that waste=freedom. Well, waste=waste and with the US >using
>far more energy than it can produce domestically, freedom is threatened by >being
>dependent on foreign resources. How many of your children are you prepared >to
>send to die in foreign wars to maintain a wasteful lifestyle?
Something to ponder: Let's use up all of the Middle East oil first. Like Bahrain has. They now have nothing to sell. They, like Bahrain will have to become an importer of goods. Their closed society will have to become part of the "Flat World" as Friedman pointed out. They will have to rely on their people as a resource and again, like Bahrain, will have to moderate to succeed.
Since Canada alone has by some estimates, 1.6 trillion barrels of oil compared to Saudi Arabia's 250 billion barrels of reserves, I doubt the next few dozen generations will have much to worry about. I do believe that we should act responsibly, conserve and control emissions, not just for our sake but for the sake of the planet. That means, we (as a country) must stop buying products produced by countries that have no pollution control over their manufacturing.
It would take a 1,000,000 conversions from my truck to Hybrid vehicles to equal the pollution of a few days of China's steel production alone. (No real facts to back that up - but if you Google it, you'll find them)
Lastly, If the past 100 years is any indication, our descendants will create technologies that will render oil production to a trickle. Or they will witness the earth's tipping point first hand.
Dave