Oil

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(03-08-2022, 09:02 PM)HarleyDog Wrote: But at what cost? Yes, it may be cheaper, but if you have to lay in bed with thugs and evildoers, is it worth it? Isn't that a back door around our own regulations we enforce? If we demand our domestic partners produce oil under a strict set of environmental guidelines, why would we purchase from foreign producers who shun environmental concerns? Doesn't make sense to me. Add in the atrocities against humanity of countries we are willing to buy oil from and I say our government sucks. Cheaper oil should not qualify as a reason to throw your ethics out the window.

Idk what it was they taught me in elementary school. But I have been of the opinion keeping our stuff in the ground and using up everybody else's resources first meant a great deal to national security. And to this day that still makes sense to me. Non-renewable resources are finite, humans like to fight over them, why deplete the treasure pile I'm sitting on? If I had more certainty the human race could make the move to another planet and live happily ever after I would gladly blow through our reserves. But I'm not there yet, seems like we will keep killing each other on this rock