27 Jun
Oil, Oil everywhere, but not a drop for us…
The US sits on vast reserves of oil in ANWR, the OCS, and in shale. Yet, the short term thinking in Washington DC, FOR THE LAST 30 YEARS, has left us dependent on despotic regimes in far away places filled with people who loathe us. If we started exploring and drilling 15 years ago, we would be paying a small fraction of the cost for energy that we do now. Additionally we would have developed technologies that extracted the shale oil economically.
And don’t tell me nuclear power would help with oil costs in the US, Oil produces such a small fraction of our electricity that it wouldn’t have an effect.
