Cycloptichorn wrote:Untrue. Drilling for more oil is guaranteed to put us in the exact same problem as we have right now, once the level of demand rises to meet the new supply. Only by transitioning to more sustainable sources do we guarantee a future in which we won't run out of energy.
Cycloptichorn
How many times does it have to be repeated, it is not either / or, we need to both drill for more oil and transition, all at the same time. It is silly to put all of your eggs in one basket, as we need to exercise all of our options to make this work more smoothly.
I would never hire you as a manager of anything, cyclops, or to run any business. You would run it into the ground with bad decisions. Only a fool would quit developing or severely curtail a proven efficient energy source that will remain in high demand for a very long time and invest everything into alternative that remain to prove that they are more than a token contribution to the energy mix. Of solar, wind, and nuclear, nuclear offers the most potential, but we are decades away from really increasing electrical production very significantly with nuclear. If you think it will take a long time to develop more oil by drilling, you need to increase that with things like nuclear, solar, and wind. We are a long way off from making a significant contribution to the energy mix.
In the case of nuclear, all we have right now is talk. By the time actual plans, permits, and wading through the countless lawsuits that are bound to be filed by tree hugger and other special interest groups that have nothing better to do, and actual construction begins, completes, and brings the plants online, it is anyone's guess how long that will take. I have not researched this, but 15 years would be my guess at a minimum, unless the politicians expedite the process, which I doubt they will do, as they lack the collective will to do it.
I find it somewhat humorous you are now pushing nuclear, as your friends on the left killed this industry 25 to 30 years ago, and here we are worse off because of it. The same is now happening with the no drilling policy, which is idiocy, and you and others will eventually wake up to it.