john1701a said:
...As for our President, his actions are not balanced. He has been focusing solely on the bandaid approach, just drill for more oil....
I believe it's really the
tourniquet approach, and I believe that eventually, we will
have to drill everywhere possible for more oil. And I'll bet the past four Presidents were aware of this, starting at least as far back as Carter, but maybe even with Ford before him.
I did read someplace that we only use about 3% of our oil for transporation needs. The rest is split between manufacturing, agriculture, and bringing goods and services to market.
Think about it: We don't grow, make, or sell ANYTHING without oil. The forestry business runs on oil. We couldn't even make toilet paper without oil! Did you know that the Amish are forced to use plastics to package and sell their cheeses? (okay, maybe they sell the cheese to a distributer, and the distributer wraps it in plastic, but it's pretty much the same thing!)
Given all this, one might say that it's oil that keeps us alive and healthy and reasonably disease-free. It's why we can support such huge populations on Earth!
And it's why I think that eventually, we
will drill
everywhere, because there'll be no other way. And I think the President knows this. Congress knows this too. But no elected official wants to make people think he's not "environmental." Nor do they want to be accused of a poor economy "under his watch." So we get no real long-term plan.
But eventually, we will drill in ANWR. Eventually, we will drill in the Gulf of Mexico. Eventually, we'll drill everywhere we can to find oil, because we will
have to. And it won't matter who is President, or what political party he's from.