They'll tell you we are running out. They lie.
From North American Energy Inventory, December 2011
Posted by gerardvanderleun at December 7, 2011 7:30 PMIt ain't about energy supplies...it's about energy CONTROL. Too much energy leads to too much freedom and they don't want that.
Posted by: Mumblix Grumph at December 7, 2011 9:07 PMBingo, Mumblix. Some years ago, during the "cold fusion" hysteria IIRC, one of the far-left environmentalists--it might have been Paul Ehrlich, but I can't recall for certain--commented that he could think of nothing more horrifying than a cheap, abundant, clean, and potent energy source being readily available to the average person. That tells you everything you need to know about the left's priorities for energy production.
Posted by: waltj at December 8, 2011 1:14 AMDrill Baby, Drill. Keystone Pipeline must be done!
Posted by: A.Men at December 8, 2011 5:21 AMThey wouldn't lie, would they? I mean, look at the fine work they did on Climate Change and saving the Polar Bears.
Posted by: Peccable at December 8, 2011 6:08 AMWaltj, that was Amory Lovins in the 70's. He said, IIRC, that mankind finding a cheap inexhaustible snergy source would be like giving a child a machine gun.
Posted by: BUTCH at December 8, 2011 6:29 AMYeah, and the section about barriers to development lists all the laws, regulations and agencies that are preventing the development of these resources. It is a long list. To paraphrase Pogo, "We have met the enemy and it is the United States government."
Posted by: Jimmy J. at December 8, 2011 8:04 AMWalt! "That tells you everything you need to know about the left's priorities for energy production." No! It tells you everything you need to know about the left's priorities for the average person.
Posted by: Talnik at December 8, 2011 12:33 PMWait ... America has natural resources? Alert the media!
Posted by: Jeff Brokaw at December 8, 2011 2:48 PMThere is a decimal slip in the first section. That should read enough oil for 3,000 years, not 30 years.
Posted by: Rhys R at December 9, 2011 4:34 AMBUTCH: Thanks. It was that long ago? Time flies when you're having fun...
Jeff B: Agreed. I'm sure they'd find a way to exempt themselves from enforced shortages that the rest of us would have to endure.
Posted by: waltj at December 10, 2011 4:48 AM
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