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To: rrufff who wrote (8354)	3/14/2004 8:39:37 AM
From: Crocodile	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 20773

Well, conservation is definitely going to have to be a major part of any plan, regardless of what happens with respect to oil exploration. Also, it wouldn't hurt to encourage energy-saving actions, such as...let's say... providing some form of rebate incentive for anyone who installs a ground-source heat-pump system to cut heating and air-conditioning energy consumption. This is an environmentally safe alternative which, IMO, has sadly fallen to the wayside, and yet can slash heating/AC-related energy consumption by a large percentage. There are plenty of bright minds in the world. If there were enough incentives for the development and installation of energy-efficient systems, transportation, etc... oil dependency might be greatly reduced. In the meantime, to help stretch things along with the least damage, there actually are new technologies for extracting oil from wells that have seemingly run out of reserves. Why not rework the wells in places where the environment has already had the hell compromised out of it? The problem is, the technology is generally more expensive -- requiring deeper or angled drilling, etc.. and companies would rather race around drilling the hell out of large pockets of easily accessed oil rather than spending the bucks to get at the reserves lying deeper or less accessible to standard rigs. Once again, the Almighty Buck reigns supreme. Perish the thought of anyone actually doing the "right thing" instead of the "most profitable thing" even if it means ravaging the whole world and then casting gluttonous eyes towards the moon and the next planet in the Solar System. Seriously, this oil dependence thing isn't much better than being addicted to crack. Planet earth is becoming like a body that's been stabbed so full of holes that there's getting to be almost nowhere left to stick a needle. It's just a sickness. Time to smarten up and clean up our act.