Re: OT Gas Prices and the Blame Game

On 16 mei, 14:32, "amdx" <a...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
  Bottom line is Drill Alaska, Florida coast, and California.

http://archives.gophercentral.com/Conservative_Review_.html

While you've still got them. Burn even more oil in even less efficient
cars, and the atmospheric CO2 levels will go up even faster than they
are going up at the moment, the ice caps will slide off Greenland and
Antarctica, and you won't have a Florida at all, and the Californian
and Alaskan coasts coast will be a long way inland from where they are
now.

So you'd better extract the oil while you still can ... and not leave
it around for your grandchildren (who will face an increasing risk of
having to learn to breath water, if your children don't relocate
further inland quickly enough).

It's familiar right-wing thinking - they grab everything they can now,
because they are going to screw up the future so comprehenisvely that
none of their descendants are going to be around to take advanatge of
anything they might leave unexploited.

The creep quoted obviously doesn't believe in global warming, so feels
free to ignore it. By the time global warming gets bad enough that
even inland idiots like Jim Thompson can't ignore it, it's going to be
much more difficult - probably impossible, with a significant
proportion of global resources suddenly vanishing under the rising
seas - to do anything about it.

--
Bill Sloman, Nijmegen
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