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dragonsrightwing

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Wednesday, June 18, 2008 04:15 PM
Original article: Gas prices and offshore drilling

The two sides of the coin...

So on the one side of the coin is a surety of 30 -50 years of oil production, giving the US time to come up with viable alternative energy sources, and on the other is the disputed global warming / global cooling / global climate change theory. Only a total idiot would not use the breathing room of these oil reserves to develop more renewable, more efficient, and less polluting energy sources. However, if our economy collapses because of uncontrollably rising energy costs, who is going to develop those new energy sources? Stasis is subject to momentum...

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