Re: Drilling pollution

Posted by jdemaris on January 04, 2011 at 14:59:03 from (67.142.130.33):

In Reply to: Re: Drilling pollution posted by johndeereman on January 04, 2011 at 12:48:07:

Many things have been going on for years, and many weren't all that good in the long run. To make it worse, collectively, we knew better when we first did it. Look what's going on now with General Electric dredging the Hudson River, trying to take out the the tons of PCBs they dumped in there. And, when they did it, it was legal!

Same goes with much of this hydrofracking. Just about every "civilized" nation on the planet has a history of seeking short-term fixes instead of long-term solutions or plans, and that is exactly what is happening right now. When it comes down to it - seems that's what most people want.

Drilling deep gas wells with hydrofracking, while we keep wasting incredible amount of fuel every day, makes little sense. It makes about as much sense as our economic model where we must grow every year - or die. Common sense ought to dictate that a finite world cannot grow forever. Same goes for our "growing" energy use, while supplies get shorter all the time.

We could put limits on frivolous air-travel and save a heck of a lot more fuel, then we're going to find drilling deep holes and sending chemicals into them (and yeah, I know it's not that simple).

If people in general truly cared about making good use of our limited resources, you wouldn't hear all the whining and groaning about things so trivial as CFL light-bulbs, or gasoline going up by 50 cents per gallon. The bulbs DO use 1/3 the energy to make near equal light as Edison bulbs - yet people complain.

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