Drill baby Drill

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Re: Drill baby Drill

Postby Tossica » Wed Oct 26, 2011 8:27 pm

Yamori wrote:I'm personally very much for keeping reserves untapped, but not due to environmental reasons. per say (although theyre legitimate)

We need to have large oil reserves for when the rest of the world runs out of it. Even if super efficient electric engines/batteries arrive at some point in the not too distant future, planes and armies will still need fossil fuel to function. Since demand from India and China keeps going up,things are gonna suck hard for the world once we go past peak oil, and the future economic impact of increasingly scarce fuel will be really, really bad. Better to hold back now so we can have a significant safety buffer when that time comes.



Who's "we"? None of that shit is yours. All it will mean is even higher profits for oil companies. They'll rape us right along with the rest of the world.
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Re: Drill baby Drill

Postby Tikker » Wed Oct 26, 2011 8:32 pm

Yamori wrote:per say



per se




but hoarding has never really worked out for anyone, at any point in history
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Re: Drill baby Drill

Postby brinstar » Wed Oct 26, 2011 11:00 pm

peak oil happened in the 80s, we've been going downhill for 20+ years

also, i just read an article today that china's govt has been taking a loss on desalination (desalinization?) plants, in an effort to improve the technology and prepare for the future

they are going to own our shit if we don't hop on the sustainability train NOW
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