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48. Like I said, they're small potatoes

Wed Oct 24, 2012, 03:41 PM

Oct 2012

Even the BP blow-out in the Gulf of Mexico pales in comparison. While the BP oil spill was devastating, global warming will wipe out most of it's coral reefs, the rainforests of the ocean, within our lifetimes:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/feb/23/coral-reef-report-dying-danger

I don't say that to downplay the oil spill; it shows just how massively bad things are about to get now that global warming is really kicking into high gear. What we thought were environmental disasters in the 20th century will be looked at fondly by our children

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US may soon become world's top oil producer [View all] Omaha Steve Oct 2012 OP

And Saudi Arabia plans to go 100 percent renewable FightingIrish Oct 2012 #1

I'm not sure where the article is going.... kwenu Oct 2012 #2

Saudi Arabia is almost definitely lying on their oil reserves NickB79 Oct 2012 #40

The only way for cheaper oil/gas is to nationalize the oil ErikJ Oct 2012 #3

nationalising dipsydoodle Oct 2012 #8

Gas is very cheap in some nationalized oil countries. ErikJ Oct 2012 #10

Any attempt to nationalize the oil companies OnyxCollie Oct 2012 #11

I think that's already happened. hunter Oct 2012 #13

The war in Iraq, the imprisonment of Gov. Don Seigelman, OnyxCollie Oct 2012 #18

We need to get the speculators out of the market. krispos42 Oct 2012 #16

It's all bullshit. Oil as well as all commodities go on global market and goes to highest bidder. DippyDem Oct 2012 #4

I think the point is that this could make some already stinking rich people in the US much richer... Locut0s Oct 2012 #5

Exactly correct! DippyDem Oct 2012 #7

What you said... SoapBox Oct 2012 #6

Because it makes a small subset of powerful people a FUCKING SHITLOAD of money to do so. nt Locut0s Oct 2012 #9

It says that increased domestic production could cut imports in half. hack89 Oct 2012 #12

How are you going to force private companies to sell to the US, OnyxCollie Oct 2012 #19

It doesn't matter where it ends up hack89 Oct 2012 #24

LOL! OnyxCollie Oct 2012 #26

Did you read the link? hack89 Oct 2012 #28

And? OnyxCollie Oct 2012 #30

I don't NoOneMan Oct 2012 #20

Thank you. This is the exact fucking point. antigone382 Oct 2012 #22

There was a drought this summer? NoOneMan Oct 2012 #25

What's up the salmon runs? sulphurdunn Oct 2012 #27

The drought took a major toll around my neck of the woods NoOneMan Oct 2012 #31

Don't know. sulphurdunn Oct 2012 #47

Just curious but AsahinaKimi Oct 2012 #14

People waited in long lines in the 70s truebluegreen Oct 2012 #17

New drilling techniques and high global oil prices NickB79 Oct 2012 #41

US proven oil reserves 20,680 million barrels krispos42 Oct 2012 #15

You mean this was done during the Obama years? Heavens to Murgatroid, the GOPers valerief Oct 2012 #21

Everyone should faint over this...or rather, they should blockade the oil executives' doors. antigone382 Oct 2012 #23

We've been there before. tabasco Oct 2012 #29

The US should attempt to produce as much oil as we consume, hughee99 Oct 2012 #32

We have NOT done that since 1969, and for at least 20 years afterward, the US was the #1 producer happyslug Oct 2012 #34

Given our current consumption, I realize that this isn't likely to happen hughee99 Oct 2012 #35

Yeah, because it's not like global warming is established science or anything NickB79 Oct 2012 #43

The US is responsible for 25% of the earth's oil consumption, hughee99 Oct 2012 #44

The problem is that CO2 release is global NickB79 Oct 2012 #45

The CO2 isn't the only environmental damage done by drilling. hughee99 Oct 2012 #46

Like I said, they're small potatoes NickB79 Oct 2012 #48

^ Wilms Oct 2012 #33

Awww, frack.:( NT booksenkatz Oct 2012 #36

We need to increase the motor fuel tax, so that income taxes don't subsidize the highways Kolesar Oct 2012 #37

Drill Baby Drill!!! budkin Oct 2012 #38

Scientists discovered that cracking the earth into tiny bits produces vast amounts of oil... Evasporque Oct 2012 #39

And if oil prices ever drop below $75/barrel, it all shuts down NickB79 Oct 2012 #42