Reply #11: So true, people will hang onto the lifestyle & exacerbate the problem [View All]

[magellan]

"We have PLENTY of oil!" most say. "Look at ANWR, and there's lots in the Gulf too! And Canadian shale!"

Well, ANWR's reserves are a spit in the bucket of demand, and the Gulf's are growing more difficult to get at, and ALL of it is going to require a lot more $$ to lift and will result in even more damage to the environment which we can't afford...and the end result will still be the same: eventually, we'll run out.

I saw a neighbor kid riding some kind of gas-powered go-cart tonight with his friends and all I could think was, "Enjoy it while you can, kid. By the time you're an adult, these will be the good old days of 'limitless' cheap fossil fuel."