09-03-2005, 06:17 AM
(This post was last modified: 09-03-2005, 06:18 AM by Swiss Mercenary.)
jahcs,Sep 2 2005, 10:37 PM Wrote:At least now we have an excuse to start looking for efficient way to get oil out of our shale deposits. And hopefully "refinery" becomes less of a bad word with our policymakers and activists when they see limiting the development, upgrading, and construction of new refinery facilities wasn't helping anything.
If the only solutions were "More refineries" or "Less refineries", then, yes, simply increasing the oil output would solve all our problems. Fortunately, we have more then black and white to choose from.
Unfortunately, the BS spouted/implemented by the environmentalist side of the fence often undermines efforts for realistic alternative energy sources.
Nuclear power plants, eh? :whistling:
Oil's too valuable to be wasted in SUVs.