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Louve00 -> RE: 60 Million gallons of gas to be released (6/26/2011 7:12:25 AM)
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The U.S. has 3% of the world's oil supply and as a nation we consume more than 20% of the world supply. We could drill every drop of oil within our borders and we will still be dependent on foreign oil. That's a fact of geology, not politics. No one would love to see us continue to chase every drop of domestic oil as long as possible than Saudi Arabia and other OPEC nations. They know it just strengthens and lengthens our addiction and we're playing right into their hands.
Face it folks, we need to get the oil monkey off our backs. We can say how "forever" that will take us to do that, but if we did way back when that notion was introduced to us a decade ago, think how much less dependent on oil we would be today.
I'm dead set against off-shore drilling until we do the proper R&D to know what we're doing, but drilling at all isn't going to satisfy our energy needs. We need to think of other options. Releasing a pittance of our reserves doesn't bring us very far or helps our problem. It could have been a political move, and it could have been a ploy to get the consumers to open their purse strings for the summer. Has anyone ever checked out what the Netherlands depend on for energy?
http://www.bergermeergasstorage.com/gasopslag_bergermeer/whygasstorage
http://english.minlnv.nl/txmpub/files/?p_file_id=2200989
Not once is the word oil mentioned in either of these links. In the second link though, they do mention nuclear energy. Since we are a nation of shortcuts and cow-towing to the rich and the huge corporations, we may not be able to be trusted with nuclear energy. But we need to investigate our alternatives and think outside of the box a bit. Instead of constantly defaulting to what we know isn't going to serve our purpose they way we need it served.
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