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polaris_x

Billy Pumpkin wrote:

no, it isn't required in life per say. but what would happen if all of a sudden the world stopped using oil? catastrophic results.

how would it be catastrophic? ... do you believe that the world's key indicator of health is oil consumption? ... the day we stopped using oil is the day we start living smarter ... sure, even if stock markets and such crashed - why the cuss are we living in a world where the stock market (a virtual place where people trade virtual dollars) is at the heart of our existence!?? ... makes absolutely no sense ... well, to me at least ...

Pepe Silvia

polaris_x wrote:

DriftingByTheStorm wrote:

Ignoring the inane,
i want to know WHAT, in specific, is so different about this event?
Maybe i AM completely off base, but i have seen and read (and heard, ad naseum, on talk radio) charts indicating that the SIZE of this spill is a FRACTION of total global spills, and even a SMALL SPILL BY COMPARISON with other spills in history.

I'm not sucking corporate cock for BP, i'm just saying that from what I have seen, this is no worse -- BY VOLUME -- than many other spills.

What, SPECIFICALLY, makes this one so much worse?

You don't have to call me a fuck-tard,
just give me a well reasoned response.

sheesh.

just because there have been larger spills doesn't make this a small spill ... in fact, relative to all oil spills, it is extremely large ...

what ultimately makes this spill horrific is that it was unnecessary but borne simply from corporate greed ... we need to revisit many things that are tied to this spill ...

as for biofuels ... algae is the one source worth exploring right now ...

not to mention this spill is something like 40%methane were normally oil fields are only around 5%methane

Pepe Silvia

Billy Pumpkin wrote:

but if you rip it off prematurely the blood will gush and you won't be able to stop it.

polaris_x wrote:

Billy Pumpkin wrote:

what people tend not to look at, is the con of knee-jerkily ending our use of oil. Do any of us really have any real comprehension of the vastness of this industry, including its trickle down effect? If the human race stopped using oil even in the next 10-20 years altogether, it would be devastation for the world markets, throw the world economy into mass chaos and probably bankrupt several countries, industries, and millions of people.

this needs to be done extremely slowly and carefully. hopefully the supply lasts as long as it takes, though. not to mention the survival of the world itself.

it is only entrenched so much because of the power the industry has ... we have not needed oil as much as we have for a long time ... the bottom line is if we continue the way we are ... the gap between those who have and those who don't will widen to the point where there will be mass poverty and diminishing resources ... our current system is unsustainable and change has to be made ... you can peel your band aid off slowly but i prefer to rip it up ...

it doesn't have to be all or none, an actual effort would be nice. instead of working to lessen our dependence on oil we try to lessen our 'foreign dependence' of it. they still receive tens of billions in corporate welfare while making more than a billion every 3 months. we need to start actually investing in alternatives, not these 1/2 assed steps that accomplish little to nothing