Congress is not helping, but it’s too late anyway. We’re well on the way to the post-industrial stone age.
“We’re well on the way to the post-industrial stone age.”
There’s plenty of fuel out there, and lots of human ingenuity.
We’ve just got to avoid being enslaved by a Congress in thrall to the insane environmentalists.
Once gas reaches a certain point, let’s say $8/gallon, our service sector employees will decide it’s more expensive to drive to work for their $7-$8/hour jobs. That’s when the poo will hit the fan.
It is not too late. The winds of change are blowing, even here in Santa Barbara County where the no offshore drilling movement began. The Drill Here/Drill Now movement is taking hold.
Last night I spent a good amount of time talking to a hippie drummer friend who is married to a biologist who writes environmental impact reports. This is a very green couple. The drummer agreed that drilling can be done much more safely and efficiently now and we need to drill offshore to become energy independent. We both conceded that everything needs to be on the table, and everyone needs to be at the table to resolve our energy problems and devise a plan for energy independence.
My husband works for a major energy company as did his father and my father and I know a thing or two about this. There is reason to be very optimistic but we need to keep alerting folks to Newt's Drill Here/Drill Now movement.