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- brettg102, on 07/11/2008, -0/+4In 25-100 years the price of oil will be prohibitively expensive. The airline industries are already hitting the point of being totally insolvent due to operating costs and in 25 years will cease to exist. Outside of oil becoming globally socialized, we are ***** I'd say. Why can't we at least go after our existing supplies and continue to research alternatives. The answer is NOT black and white...it's not "***** the eco-nuts, lets drill!", and its not "drilling will harm the fishes! Solar Panels only!"...it's both. You've admitted it will take 25-100 years for alternatives to work..so until then, DRILL AND RESEARCH LIKE CRAZY.
- pathouston22, on 07/11/2008, -1/+4And this, my dear liberal enviormental-nazis, is why we MUST drill. It is absolutely impossible to 100% replace oil within the next 10 years as our energy source.
"So what would it take to replace the amount of energy in a cubic mile of oil? Roughly 4.2 billion solar rooftops, 3 million wind turbines, 2,500 nuclear power plants or 200 Three Gorges Dams, according to Menlo Park, Calif., nonprofit research institute SRI International. "
Yes we need to get off oil. But running out of oil or running the price up too high would be catastrophic to our economy if that happens before we switch over to alternative energy. - floorman56, on 07/11/2008, -0/+210 years to start getting anything decent out of those holes
Are you saying you see something that will replace oil in 10 years?
If not then we need to start to drill ...now
If we had drilled when people first said we need it ...10 years ago... we would have it now
Also most oil people said we can get oil from fields from 6 months to 6 years - mOdQuArK, on 07/11/2008, -0/+1Ummm...you do realize that even if we went balls-out drilling on every potential site in the world, it would be >= 10 years to start getting anything decent out of those holes? And then you'd run out 40-50 years after that anyway (provided you weren't drowned by rising sea levels).
Why not spend that 10 years going balls-out on building your alternative energy infrastructure? - srfrogger, on 07/11/2008, -0/+1One of Texas' windfarms.
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=f ...
Feel free to move around the map, its a beautiful sight going from San Antonio to El Paso. - bioprez, on 07/11/2008, -0/+1i dont' think we have a choice to gradually replace oil over the next 50-100 years...although these technologies are not mature yet, we cannot continue to rely on oil on the future as much as we do today. Look at the burden it is putting on the economy today, imagine 10 years down the road what it will be like if we do nothing to gradually move away from consuming the amount we consume today.
Bottom line is that we need to continue to R&D new alternative energy sources so that we are less dependent on oil, helping lower the cost of energy in the future. If we rely on oil that cost could be immensely greater than if we develop alternative renewable sources outlined in this article. Give it some time, the technology will mature, and will help put a dent in our reliance on oil.
Everyone who is negative towards alternative sources just wants everything handed to them on a silver platter instantly, unfortunately it doesn't work like that. It will be a slow process that will pay off in 25-100 years. - staplez, on 07/11/2008, -0/+1I think the point is we need to do both. We need to drill for more oil as well as start creating as many alternative energy plants as possible. Especially tell the EPA to get out of the desert so we can power California with Solar Thermal.
- laserdog, on 07/11/2008, -0/+1The longer we wait to tap those finite resources, the more they will be worth though, if only for making plastics.
Sometimes you get two marshmallows instead of one just by being patient. - inactive, on 09/01/2008, -0/+1Bell bio-energy makes oil out of any plant on earth.
http://bellbioenergy.com/ - thurows, on 07/12/2008, -0/+1We may not be able to get rid of our oil dependency by 100% using these technologies but it will help take a chunk out of our use.
- choppa1890, on 07/11/2008, -0/+1The article is forgetting that along with developing renewable-power infrastructures. Technology will also provide more energy efficient vehicles, houses, and electronics. Just look at the way light-bulbs have become more and more energy efficient. Soon, electronics might be touting low-energy consumption.
- maeon3, on 07/11/2008, -2/+2What's the use of trying if we can't replace Oil 100% with renewable energies in a short period of time?
So the moral of the story is don't try, because what you will end up with won't be perfect. - teeterc, on 07/11/2008, -0/+0Interactive Wind/Solar map. http://firstlook.3tiergroup.com/
- inactive, on 07/11/2008, -2/+1Buried for Forbes slideshow *****.
- ricker2005, on 07/11/2008, -2/+0Slideshow? PORQUE!?!
- ricksite, on 07/11/2008, -3/+1I don't know why we are messing around with alternative energy. The oil infrastructure is in place and it is working for us. We should bring back the dinosaurs. We can then kill them off to provide oil for future generations!
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