10-09-2015, 12:11 AM
(10-03-2015, 01:07 PM)Beaker Wrote: I have said this for years. The oil will run out. Why are we not developing both alternative sources, and the infrastructure necessary to deliver them? Oil riches in those countries have allowed terrorism to be funded. For example, Bib Laden was a Saudi from a wealthy family. If those countries lost their oil revenue, they would be inconsequential once again. On top of that would be the added benefit of both sustainability and less pollution and greenhouse gases.
The main reason this doesn't happen is two fold in my opinion. First, the oil lobbyists. Second, Americans are too comfortable with a cheap energy source to want to worry about making a change.
I honestly think that the alternatives are there right now. Oil companies want to get all they can out of fossil fuels before they run out. When that time comes, they will swoop in and save the day with "new" energy resources and look like real heroes. They will, of course, have figured out ways to make everyone pay a shitload of money for them, too.
