More Addiction Talk
July 2nd, 2008 - 11:00 am
“As for oil, Bush said: ‘I’ll remind people it took us a while to get into the energy situation we’re in, it’s going to take us a while to get out of it.’
He added that ‘here in the United States, that we can help alleviate shortages by drilling for oil and gas in our own country, something I’ve been advocating ever since I’ve been the president. I’ve been reminding our people that we can do so in environmentally friendly ways … It makes no sense for — to watch these gasoline prices rise when we know we can help
affect the supply of crude oil which should affect the supply of gasoline prices.’”
–George W. Bush
And I repeat, using George’s own words, from January 31, 2006:
“Here we have a serious problem. America is addicted to oil, which is often imported from unstable parts of the world. The best way to break this addiction is through technology.”
– George W. Bush
I guess the technology he was talking about was oil wells and breaking our addiction to oil by getting our hands on more oil.
Addicted to oil, indeed.
3 Responses to “More Addiction Talk”
What people don’t want to understand is that even if we dig up Alaska and the California coast and manage to extract as much oil as the cheerleaders claim exists, there is no mechanism in place to direct that oil to American refineries. Oil companies won’t front all that money for exploration and production only to have the government tell them they have to sell at set prices to specific refiners. India and China will outbid us every inch of the way and they pay cash on the (oil) barrel head. The white man taught them capitalism and are they ever good at it!
Yup, getting it to refineries and having enough refineries is a problem. Also, even if we all woke up tomorrow and agreed to extract every drop of oil from every possibly location in the USA, it wouldn’t do any immediate good. It’d be years before it really made a difference, and even then it wouldn’t make much difference at all.
People just need to wake up and smell the coffee, we have to start getting serious about different energy forms. Or we can completely rape our environment in order to get every last drop out there, and deal with this same crap next decade. The problem isn’t going to go away.
We found a treasure trove or rare and versatile chemicals, of use in medicine, manufacture of new materials and goodness knows what else. Logically the best thing to do with this is to burn it for heat.