Not only do I not care about my carbon footprint (except that I try to make it as large as possible), but I also don't buy that we should drive golf carts for "cost savings" or re-shaping global politics. Here's an idea - screw the liberals and go drill in Alaska and the Florida Coast and all the other places that we're not supposed to, and build more refineries and develop our own oil resources instead.
"Here's an idea - screw the liberals and go drill in Alaska and the Florida Coast and all the other places that we're not supposed to, and build more refineries and develop our own oil resources instead."
It would be nice to do this or perhaps even develop a way to use the oil, but for some reason I'd like to keep my eyes open on the other alternatives. This may not be at all viable, but it just sparks my interest when a big company latches on to the idea....but then again, they're known to make mistakes, too.
I'd much prefer algae fuel to domestic oil production...for many reasons. 1)Unless it's oil shale, production levels will not keep up with demand so we'll have to depend on countries e.g Mexico, Russia, and the middle east 2)Algae fuel WHEN cost effective will help third world nation without oil really start the ball rolling....giving us more trade partners. 3)We don't have to have a continual trade deficit (as production could increase incredibly with LOW COST)...while trade deficits are not bad for short-term, they're definitely not a good long-term policy.
Refer to message 50 concerning Algae, which I know quite a bit more about....it will take time (before costs are comparable), but we do have pay attention to certain things. I'm believe alternatives will start really taking a bit out of petro markets in 10-20 years.