I am reading the green section in the NY Times this morning (online of course). There is a blog about how a large number of environmentalist groups are coming together against oil sands pipelines from Alberta Canada to the US.
The head of the Sierra Club is asked what are the alternatives and his answer is, and I quote “There’s a lot of conventional oil to buy on international markets,” he said. “We don’t need this oil.”
That's when the top of my head blew off...
There are so many things wrong with this I don't know where to start. Let see, economic security, military spending, American death toll in Middle East conflicts, huge transfer of our wealth to countries that dislike us, funding terrorists, Hugo Chaves, energy caused recessions etc.
Did you know we IMPORTED a tanker of Liquid Natural Gas from Russia?
Does the Sierra club, in light of a global problem called Climate Change, really have any business deciding where and how we get oil domestically? Where were they when the oil fields of Kuwait were burning en-masse?
Don't get me wrong, oil sands is nasty business, but you cant be an American and advocate "other sources". You're turning a blind eye to our position on the world stage. Don't they realize when we say democracy, human rights etc to all middle eastern countries what they hear is blah, blah , blah, we need oil? Don't they realize that's what makes us infidels? Our two faced posture toward oil rich countries?
It's a ridiculously expedient argument to say, "get your oil elsewhere" just so you can kowtow to your contributors all up in arms about Alberta Canada's oil business.
All right, back to regular programming.
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Wait awhile and our friends in Greenland will have enough oil to float the continent. I can't see accepting the severe greenhouse gas effects of tar sands oil in the meantime.
ReplyDeleteIn my view, the sooner we have steady $120 a barrel oil, like the oil sands, the sooner we will have all the renewables we need. As the price of oil goes up and the price of solar comes down, mix in some electric cars and viola'. Energy and carbon independence!
ReplyDeleteIf I could just snap my fingers I would outlaw energy from certain countries. The price of oil would plummet on global markets, new exploration would stop. Here we would begin serious roll out of renewables, cars etc to deal with the artificially limited supply of oil.
There would be a jobs boom in America building solutions to not having all that unfriendly oil. Change would happen almost overnight.
The current rate of change is so slow I fear we will get the worst of both our climate and the financial impact trying and failing. (Too little too late).
But hey, that's why I am sitting here blogging rather than actually leading the country. I'd have a lower approval rating than Bush. :-)
Bi-Polar thinking may be an unintentional by-product of fast-paced hi-pressure societal demands and expectations. Let's all cognitively assert our right and necessity to think through the full "alphabet" of considerations in light of their interdependent importance toward solutions. Time to really look at the big picture - there are no "sides" any more! BTW - bro, our quest for details makes me think we may be related. Love, sis
ReplyDeletethe above comment was meant for your climate change page. Just figuring out the blog mechanics. Vrindy
ReplyDeleteHowdy! How did you find this blog?
ReplyDeleteWelcome, I cant move a comment or I would.