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1. We want to decarbonize our economy as fast as we can to mitigate the very real dangers of climate change. yup
2. We want the cheapest possible gasoline and heating oil prices so we can drive our cars as fast and as much as we want — and never have to put on a sweater indoors or do anything to conserve energy.
Electric cars go faster.
and you can consume less without conserving because everything is becoming more efficient.
3. We want to tell the petrodictators in Iran, Venezuela and Saudi Arabia to take a hike. See 1 and 2
4. We want to be able to treat U.S. oil and gas companies as pariahs and dinosaurs that should pump us out of this current oil crisis and then go off in the woods and die and let solar and wind take over.
True. They should have started heading for the woods in the 90's, but, instead they started to fight with all the vigor that T Rex Tillerson and his predecessor, Lee Raymond, could muster. This isn't a major hang up. All we have to do is nationalize them, and begin a 30 year walk towards the woods, while we power the nation with all the hot air coming from those who are screaming, "How dare you nationalize them?" 5. Oh, and we don’t want any new oil and gas pipelines or wind and solar transmission lines to spoil our backyards.
So put panels on your roof, and a battery on your wall, or bury the transmission lines, and make do with the existing pipelines.
Dec 13, 2008 Documentary Addicted To Oil part 1 New York Times reporter Thomas L. Friedman looks at both the USA's dependence on foreign oil, and the various "green" technologies that can help break that dependency.
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magical thinking that we can have it all. 4 out of 5 ain't bad. We can be nice to the oil companies, and treated them like endangered species.
