Obama gets it! Oil is FINITE, regardless of current price.

It was inspiring to hear President-elect Obama say this during a 60
Minutes interview:

[quote]

(CBS) Kroft: When the price of oil was at $147 a barrel, there were a
lot of spirited and profitable discussions that were held on energy
independence. Now you've got the price of oil under $60.

Mr. Obama: Right.

Kroft: Does doing something about energy is it less im****tant now
than=85

Mr. Obama: It's more im****tant. It may be a little harder politically,
but it's more im****tant.

Kroft: Why?

Mr. Obama: Well, because this has been our pattern. We go from shock
to trance. You know, oil prices go up, gas prices at the pump go up,
everybody goes into a flurry of activity. And then the prices go back
down and suddenly we act like it's not im****tant, and we start, you
know filling up our SUVs again.

And, as a consequence, we never make any progress. It=92s part of the
addiction, all right. That has to be broken. Now is the time to break
it.

[end quote]


Most Republicans in recent memory would use this TEM****ARY recession-
based oil price drop to claim there's "plenty of oil" and vindicate
gratuitous V-8 engines in ego trucks. Our remaining oil (which will
rise in price sooner or later, since it's finite), should be saved for
workers who truly need big horsepower & torque. There will come a day
when "I need 300HP to tow my ego-boat" or cart around 5 fat kids won't
be a valid excuse. Living too large is the problem in the first place.
Restraint and frugality must replace mindless gluttony.

Hopefully, Obama will keep reminding the average greediot about the
inherent scarcity of a resource we've been consuming at the rate of
7.6 billion barrels a year. Coastal drilling and ANWR combined might
yield 30 billion barrels in best-case scenarios, which is about 4
years worth for the U.S. After that, the extremely costly, land-
wrecking spectre of shale is America's biggest cache. Canadian tar
sands will never fill enough of the void, and that process is already
ruining large swaths of their wilderness.

A tem****ary slowing of consumption doesn't render Peak Oil null, but
many people are dumb enough to believe that. Oil from all sources is
FINITE and we need a President who'll stay on that point instead of
letting the ignorant follow price whims. Nobody was born with the
right to waste energy just because they can "afford the gas" this
week. It gets physically scarcer each second no matter what price is
decided on.

E.A.

http://enough_already.tripod.com/

Government efficiency, or lack thereof, mirrors the habits of the
citizenry.