nodoginnafight
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DGS49, (and freewill as well)
Nothing you posted changes the facts that we WILL run out. You offer consolation is that it will take "MANY generations."
A generation is usually considered 25 years - so what is your number (the date we run out if consumption continues to increase at the current pace) for:
Liquid oil?
other oil?
coal?
natural gas?
In the 1970s I remember every "expert" saying that the earth would be out of oil by the year 2000. Didn't happen, not even close.
But yes, we need to find other sources of energy and the best way to do that is to let the free market operate. The profit motive will find the answers, not government.
For the present we should focus on using fossil fuels more efficiently and with less pollution, not ban them.
OK, so what are the new calculations?
Or do you think they are irrelevant because "we'll just find more?"
I don't know, but a few years ago no one was aware of the billions of barrels that fracking has produced. most of ANWR is still untapped. We are not going to run out of oil for many many years. But I agree fully that we need to be working on alternative energy sources. When was the last time the US brought a nuclear power plant on line?
And when we do - we spend about three times as much as we need to. You have NO IDEA how it pains me to say this, but the French are doing much better with nuclear technology than we are. HECK ... let that sink in .... the FRENCH have an advantage in ANY form of technology and engineering !!!!