[ale] [OT] Psychology of Denial about Climate Change

[damon at damtek.com (Damon L. Chesser)]

On Thu, 2010-02-25 at 11:17 -0500, Jeff Hubbs wrote:
> On 2/25/10 10:36 AM, Damon L. Chesser wrote: 
> > 
> > On this we agree.  Dare I say, Drill hear, Drill now?
> >   
> > 
> This GOP rallying cry hides a certain facetiousness:  we have been and
> already are. 
> 
> The US produces more than 90% of the petroleum products it consumes
> and imports about 3M barrels per day of refined petroleum products.
> Furthermore, we export almost 2M barrels a day of oil, almost all of
> it in the form of refined products.
> 
> We import more oil from non-OPEC countries than OPEC countries and
> that has been true since the 1990s and was true through much of the
> 1980s.  

This has nothing to do with "drill here, drill now".  While this is the
rally cry for the GOP (of which I am no supporter) that does not make it
wrong.  Why import any if we don't need to.  I have heard from a source
I have researched out, that there is a ton of oil in Alaska.  Not so say
other sources.  I don't know which is true or not, but to at least allow
the exploration of such things seems reasonable to me.  IF the first
source is right, we would not need to import any.  If the second source
is right, then we lose nothing.  Some detractors say it will take 10
years to bring any new sources online.  All the more reason to start.

On one thing, I think we all agree:  imported oil (from any source) is a
less secure USA.  Moving off of oil would be good, I just don't see an
alternative source yet.  I am mining for dai-lithium crystals.
> 
> Funny thing, reality.
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Damon
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