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It’s Not Foreign Oil We Are Dependent On - It’s Oil Itself.

December 17th, 2007 • Related • Filed Under

Let’s be honest with ourselves here for a moment; we have a problem with oil. Sure, it wasn’t a problem before because there was plenty of it and we did not use that much. But we have a problem now - and some of our politicians want you to believe that our problem is with foreign oil, not with oil itself.

What a load of crap.

It’s all oil from all ends of the earth - from the deepest shale in Canada to the deepest offshore well in South America to the deserts of Saudi Arabia - we are slowly running out of oil. You wouldn’t know it judging by the sizes of the cars that American manufacturers still make, or the amount of cars being put on the road in China and India each year, or by the fact that companies across the globe leave their lights on all night - you would think we were rolling in the stuff. Energy crisis? No way man! There is plenty of oil in the ground.

Um, no there isn’t.

But back to some of our politicians. One side in particular wants you to think that we need to drill for oil on every inch of the United States of America to ween ourselves off foreign oil, and nothing could be further from the truth. In order to extract the oil from every corner of this country, we would need to expend so much energy that it just is not worth it in the end. Use more energy then we can get out of the ground? What sense does that make? Not much - but the politicians are very crafty because by saying “foreign oil” they get you to think of oil in far away lands that might be in the hands of a terrorist, thus we should allow them to dig anywhere they want here in this country. Don’t fall for it - oil is oil is oil - and the only solution to “fixing” the problem is to find alternative sources of energy, not continually drilling everywhere looking for a few drops.

Saudi Arabia is one of our government’s best friends, so foreign oil from them cannot be too bad, right?

Oil has been used to create our entire society - from your car, to your roof, to your toothbrush, makeup, trash cans, street signs - and that is just a tiny handful of things made directly from oil, never mind the stuff that we just need energy from oil to create. I wrote before about the many things made from oil and it is a pretty amazing list. What would happen if we did not have it anymore?

Personally, I don’t want to find out.

That’s why we need our politicians to stop lying about “foreign oil” and get real - we don’t need to drill for more oil here in the U.S., but rather we need to get off the stuff completely. We need to start spending money on research rather than exploratory drilling in our National Parks. We need to get private enterprises with money excited and interested in alternative energy. We need to start conserving every last drop that we can so we allow ourselves the time to figure it all out. And we need to start today.

Oil is running out - both foreign and domestic, whatever that truly means. Our politicians need to act accordingly instead of trying to convince us that one kind of oil is better than another. When it’s gone, it’s gone, no matter where it came from.

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  1. Comment by Paul on 18 January 2008:

    As just another avarege individual without any great credentials or achievements to my roster;I wish to add my two cents worth wich due to inflation it is not worth that much, but lets continue if permitted.The underlying problem throughout history has always been who controls what and how, the ways and means. It is more so present day than ever before,because of much better and faster techonology. In order to control the flock of sheeple; fear, lies,propoganda, mind conditioning e continuem.
    In many ways life is much better for present human beings than in the past, the availibility of goodies is immense; it staggers the imagination.
    Unfortunatly it is the unequittable distribution globally that sucks eggs.
    It is difficult not to comprehend that introducing chemicals to the atmosphere as well additional heat from manufacturing would interfere with the eco balance of our enviroment, a science degree is not really necessary. Sometimes good old common sense is better. We have peak oil, not enough of this not enough of that, we will run out we won’t, yada,yada yada.
    It is incomprehensible at least to me that given the number of scientists and engineers and on and on that we should have any energy crises period. The problem that arises is there are no profits in solutions, if there were there be more solutions than problems. We all should be involved in some manner to to lessen the inequities in our immediate zones,but aloso global zones, a little bit a a grat many can add upto a great deal.Good and rational common sense, than just rabid attacks on one another,wich only empowers those that wield the power more.We may never have a utopious world, but certainly we can all try to work toward a more civilized one,with more equitable distibution of assets and resources. Lets not just be sheeple but real people. Thanks. Paul

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