Oil is a dead end
For those people cheering on the possibility of opening up our National Forests, etc. to oil exploration, shale oil, etc. rather than relying on foreign oil sources (aka Romney) this is an insightful confirmation that peak oil is indeed upon us. Continued reliance on a finite resource is a dead end and an increasingly expensive one. If we continue to be blind to this issue and we do not use our remaining cheap oil resources for development of renewables (aka Obama), we will be either like lemmings rushing toward the edge and not seeing it coming....or we will be paying a huge price to scramble and try to convert at the last minute. We cannot afford to be blind to this "E" so prominently discussed by Chris Martenson. The reason Romney feels that it's necessary to arm us to the teeth is indeed a truth if we continue to rely so heavily upon oil for not only energy, but plastics, fertilizers, clothing, transportation, and our whole way of life. As oil becomes scarcer, there will be more wars to defend this resource. Personally, I'd much rather vote for the guy with his eyes wide open about this issue and who has invested in renewable energy than the guy who ALSO sees the cliff, but doesn't want to deal with it and wants to spend our tax dollars on defense rather than on people and green jobs. Yes, defense will create a lot of jobs. Developing oil (and ruining our National Forests) will create jobs. But it is a dead end. Whether Mr. Nelder is right or wrong, are we willing to poison our land, rape our National Forests, and create a dead planet for our greed? There is an end to oil. There is NO end to sun, wind, tides, geothermal, etc. We can sit around and argue about how much is under the ground forever, but whether it's our generation or our children's generation, we need to start converting to something else now....preferably before we have killed everything in our greedy grab for oil.
