Re: Worst Ecological Disaster in Gulf of Mexico History!
Posted: May 4th, 2010, 9:24 am
I agree with Gyrene, ending oil consumption is a last resort. We have to work towards alternative energy not just throw oil out in a day. I think that anyone who thinks this is the case has not thought things through. The day we run out of oil or quit pumping without a viable alternative energy solution is the day I fear and I think could be seen by some as a doomsday of sorts. If we did not have oil, how chaotic do you think just the simple task of getting food would be? Without mass production agriculture we have now. Not for me or probably you as we grew up with the know how and have the abilities to be self sustaining with growing our own food. There would be no hunting or fishing anymore. All game would be overhunted or over fished from the millions of people in the cities who had to move out to rural areas to find/grow food. I dont think that there is enough land to support subsistence farming for the population we have in the US now. There is nothing more heartless than a starving person, people would be in a current state of poverty and starvation leading them to commit crimes against their neighbor. You may say I have plenty of guns, so what. I do too, but the day I have to shoot someone for stealing out of my garden or trying to take food from me that will be a sad day. People would begin to be murdered for food instead of drugs. Lets not even go to the places like china or India where they are overpopulated now to sustain themselves. These people would have to go somewhere or starve, there governments would try to take from our government or vice versa and we all know what three letter word that leads to. Sorry to write a paragraph, just wanted to add my 1 and a half cents....
Appreciated what one board member told me in person the other day when we talked about the government not having gotten more quickly involved. He said, "Why in the world do we trust guys that probably have never even changed the oil in their car to step in and solve this problem?" Had to laugh at that one as I suspect it's true, for both Obama and Crist. 
