Subj : Re: Lookin' for oil
To   : Angus McLeod
From : Finnigann
Date : Fri Sep 02 2005 00:09:00

-=> Angus McLeod wrote to Deuce <=-

 AM>   Re: Re: Lookin' for oil
 AM>   By: Deuce to Finnigann on Thu Sep 01 2005 12:24:00

 >  > Your replies sound as if you think I'm advocating the discontinued use of
 >  > pertroleum.
 >  >
 >  > I am not. But it seems clear to me that we wont have a choice in the not
 >  > distant future.
 >
 > I understand that, but you are (unless I misunderstand) advocating seeking a
 > renewable source instead of seeking more non-renewable ones.  It's not an
 > either-or situation.  We need to seek BOTH because until we actually FIND a
 > renewable one, we really have to keep the existing stuff going.  It would be
 > incalcuably worse to run out of oil without a replacement on tap.

 AM> But *you* seem to be saying that so long as they keep supplying you
 AM> with gasolene for your car, you don't care whether they look for better
 AM> energy sources or not.

 AM> Nobody is suggesting that you should be deprived of gasolene -- at
 AM> least nobody that *I* am reading.  But the idea that every effort must
 AM> be directed to finding petroleum for you to *burn* (and that so long as
 AM> you are able to burn petroleum no other efforts are necessary) is not
 AM> reasonable.


I suspect we (the USA) will use up every bit of petro in the ground whether we
find an alternate or not.

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