Are We Seriously This F’ing Stupid?

Bush and McCain and some others have been espousing the virtues of off-shore drilling in order to fix the energy crisis and frankly, I’m flabbergasted.  I’m amazed that no one hasn’t just smacked them upside the head.  Or that a decent amount of people are actually choking this horse-manure down.  Seriously, at this point, everyone knows that it will take 10 years to develop a single field into something producing.  Even then, will the production volume amount to enough to make a difference?  Or is it something like ANWR, where development would only impact us by $0.10/gallon?

OK, so skip ahead 10 years, and we’ve got all these lovely off-shore rigs on the horizon while we sun ourselves on the oily beaches.  We’ve still got a few big f’ing problems: greenhouse gasses; oil spills. Oh yeah, and it’s still a limited f’ing quantity, meaning that at some point probably within our lifetimes, we’ll be facing this whole issue all over again! 

It needs to end people.  It just needs to f’ing end.  Seriously.  If your solution to high gas prices involves drilling for more oil, or shale oil (what a crock), then just f’ing forget it.  It doesn’t solve anything. At absolute best it just delays the mess we’re in, with the likelihood that next time it won’t be so easy to solve.

High gas prices are here to stay.  Instead of spending 10 years developing new oil fields, let’s spend 10 years getting sustainable energy solutions out into society.  Then maybe we can get on with the business of other issues.

P.S. If you see these idiotic ads for “Clean Coal”, just ignore them.  The technology doesn’t exist – look it up.  It’s all a marketing gimmick to save a couple thousand crappy jobs.  Those folks would be better served by green energy jobs that won’t kill them 30 years early.