Quote Originally Posted by kyfanatic View Post
While I agree that it is wise to seek alternative energy,I stand by the fact that you don't do so at the cost of breaking the country during a depression,you can call it whatever you want ,but it is a depression,thoings are not so good out there and most likely won't be for some time,so we shut down the oil field,the coal mines,and related jobs,makes sense to me.......
While families are struggling let's up the ante and bleed some more money out of them in the name of Green.

I think you gents and ladies would be surprised to see the real estimates of how much.and how long "known" natural resources would last at current usage,of course let's keep investing in China,India,etc to let the rich get richer and the middle class crumbles.
First, this is not a depression, far from it. Secondly, nobody is saying shut down the oil fields, coal mines or anything else.

My point is two fold #1 allow them to drill in an environmentally safe way, even if it hurts profits a little. They can do it safely and with as little impact as they want, but it the shareholders lose a few dollars and would rather risk harm to workers and the environment for the sake of optomizing profits. I will use mountain top removal mining as an example. The only reason it exist is because it saves the company time and money. Remove 2000 feet off a mountain to do something they could have done without removing the mountain top. All to save a few dollars. Oil companies can drill cleaner and with less impact as well, but they won't because it cuts into their profits.

#2 In the meantime while all the drilling is going on, have scientist doing REAL research on alternative, renewable energy sources that maybe my grandson and his generation can use.