It should be pointed out that Brazil has drilled its way to energy independence, in deep water. So its tough, but its do-able.
All the easy stuff is off limits. Now they are going to try and make the difficult stuff off limits too, mark my words. The Brazilians can do it, but we can’t.
We have as much oil shale as the Saudis have oil. We’ve got so much oil off the California coast that it comes bubbling up through the ocean floor. We have as much oil off the arctic coast of Alaska as you’ll find anywhere, and if we don’t drill it the Russians will.
Just like, if we don’t want to drill off Florida, no problem, the Chinese will do it for us. On behalf of Cuba.
The technology for making oil from coal is almost a century old, and its been commercial for half a century anyway. So, why do we have to go a mile deep?
How much longer will we be allowed even to do that?
I remember reading that by the end of WWII the entire German military was run by oil and gasoline made from coal. In addition, I've been hearing since the oil shortages of the 70s, that we have most of the worlds coal right here in the US. It seems like a no brainer that we should not only be liquefying coal but exporting it to pay down our enormous debt. Why can't we do this?
The answer, while not obvious, is in plain sight.
We are being forced into ‘green’ technologies. We are going to be taxed to death to pay for technologies that, in the long run, will cause more pollution and provide less ‘energy’. The ‘Al Gore’ crowd has invested into carbon credit trading and ‘green’ technology. They want our tax money to subsidize those technologies, so that they can turn a profit for their investors. They don’t care how efficient their technology is, or even if it actually works. They just want to ensure they are guaranteed a profit, and have a stranglehold on the rights to the technology they will force us to use and pay for.
Wind mills, give me a break. There is technology out there that provides wind power devices that do not obstruct the view, nor cause low frequency vibrations, nor kill birds, nor lose it’s blade.
They are American made. But, we stick with gigantic dangerous propeller windmills that are built in China and half of them are broken.
WHY? Because laws were passed, deals were made, to ensure the profits of these ‘investors’, regardless to the true value of the product.
In short: Follow the money.
They have achieved enough wealth that they can get almost anything declared out of bounds for drilling and then get their left wing lawyers, who will do anything for a buck, to back them up forever. They have all but destroyed the country.