We need to find alternatives, not look for more fossil fuels

The Columbia (Missouri) Daily Tribune ^ | September 13, 2006 | Sylvia Spotts

[rface]

Editor, the Tribune:

Isn’t it odd that we keep trying to find oil and trying to get permission to drill in our nature preserves and that we keep building coal-fired electricity plants?

I thought we were eager to turn away from these fossil fuels - perhaps even before it is too late to save our poor suffering Earth!

With several alternatives available, what are we waiting for? This is not about money; it’s about the sustainability of our lives. When we have destroyed our planet, that’s the end. We must get serious.

And my newspaper today has a headline, "Chevron oil find is promising." I grabbed my pen and completed the sentence: "to kill the planet." Why can’t these oil people think?

Sylvia Spotts
address deleted - but available at link
Columbia, Missouri

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gasoline is 2.199/gal today.

[Larry Lucido]

and that we keep building coal-fired electricity plants?

We have centuries of coal. All electrical generation should be coal and nuclear, and free up natural gas and oil for other applications.

[Larry Lucido]

Never mind. I read the rest of her letter, er, screed. Logic is hopeless on the writer.

[ShadowAce]

It's people like her that keep refusing to build nuke plants.

[MAD-AS-HELL]

FLux capictor anyone?

It's true we still need good R&D into new source of revenue. I am working on a urine derived engine. Just pull off the side of the road, whiz in the tank and off you go!

[pabianice]

Dear Sylvia:

When you voluntarily disconnect your electric service we'll talk. Until then, please STFU.

Cordially,

[NRA1995]

Our poor suffering Earth??????? Oh puhleeeeeeeeeze!

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

before it is too late to save our poor suffering Earth!

I spoke with the earth this morning and she assured me that she feels much better without all that oil sloshing around in her tummy.

She is worried about you though.

[caisson71]

If I hear "sustainability" one more time.......
There's nothing stopping anyone from developing alternative fuels especially if "it's not about money".

[Obie Wan]

Alternatives to fossil fuels,wow, why didn't anybody come up with this idea before ????

[Busywhiskers]

How about doing both.

[Luna]

our poor suffering Earth

Oh, how dare we make the earth suffer!! I'm sure she feels the earth's pain every time she walks on it or drives on it, or bicycles on it. And her house is on it. That must cause pain to the earth too since houses are heavy. We just need to eradicate our evil human species and that will make the earth ALL better.

People like this are always good for a laugh.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

With several alternatives available

And what exactly are these alternatives? Somehow I don't think "fission reactor" is what this woman has in mind, and to suggest solar or wind power would be ridiculous.

[camle]

geez. there are a ton of 'alternative' fuels around. problem is that they aren't as efficient.

even if we DID wanna make the switch, what are we supposed to de in the meantime, eh?

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

Where is the BARF alert?

[P-40]

Why can’t these oil people think?

It is hard to figure out why these 'oil people' keep wanting to sell a product we keep wanting to buy.

[Prophet in the wilderness]

What the environmentalist don't realize is that even if we were not to drill for oil, that some day, all that oil has got to go some were, and will eventually come to the surface ( or in the ocean ) some were on earth and create a major oil spill.
So ? I look at it this way, in effect ? we are actually helping the earth rid of this oil that it produces and help in keeping the oil from making a even worse oil spill than a oil taker or pipeline leak.

[CaptainK]

She'll be dead before the world ends, if it's any comfort to her.

[RightWhale]

This is not about money

Yes, it is.

Bulk gasoline futures up 1 cent today. End decline, end predictions of $1.75 by Thanksgiving.

[Doomonyou]

Yo Sylvia Pinhead,

Develop alteratives first, then we can stop drilling.