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August 18, 2005
Why Don't Oil and Conservation Mix?
Tom Huff is manager of the Energy Research Center of the Netherlands and he is worried.
"If we run out of fossil fuels -- by the time the oil price hits 100 dollars or plus, people will be screaming for alternatives, but whether they will be available at that moment of time -- that's my biggest worry," Hoff said."That's why we need to use fossil fuels in a more efficient way to have some more time to develop these alternatives up to a level where the robustness is guaranteed and their price has come down ... This could take decades for some technologies." [Reuters via Yahoo News]
On the other hand, I read in a New York Times editorial,
Unless you live in the Rocky Mountain West, it's hard to realize just how pervasive the push for new petroleum leases in that region really is. Although a vast amount of land is already under lease - and most of those leases have not been developed - the cry in the oil and gas community is for still more access to new territory. The Bush administration has been encouraging this constant push for more drilling, almost entirely without regard to other values. A case in point is the growing pressure to open Valle Vidal, a part of the Carson National Forest in northern New Mexico, to coal-bed methane development.[Snip]
The White House has given the industry no reason to consider restraint. Its energy policy is based entirely on expansion, extraction and consumption, with little thought for conservation or the environment. [emphasis added]"
Why isn't our President worried also? Oh yet, I forgot for a moment.
Posted by Duane Smith at August 18, 2005 9:51 AM | Read more on Odds and Ends |
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