We're Drilling In All the Wrong Places

Amory Lovins, energy expert, explains how we could, effectively, get more oil by creating better cars than by drilling, It's cheaper, faster and makes more environmental sense. Physics, not politics.

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News & Politics

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• oil
• detroit
• efficiency
• drilling
• anwar
• misguided
• hypercar

[ed4wb]

KantMuchDo: Your clear writing and excellent logic have convinced me! Please sign me up for your newsletter.

[harknessmine]

Of course we need more gas efficient cars, electric cars(with nuclear power to charge them), and alternative energy sources. In the mean time we don't need to give our money to the middle east. Save our economy now so we can invest in alternatives! Drill now and at the same time work on alternatives!

[ed4wb]

Saving ecosystems is more important than preventing money from going overseas. Once an ecosystem and its species are gone, it's gone forever. Once you understand the value and services offered by ecosystems, you'd see it's not smart destroying them.

[Whaaat2008]

Every time we blow money on nuclear instead of a renewable we are sliding backwards. Until one of us figures out what to do with the highly dangerous waste that comes out of these plants none of us have the right to create a new one. If we add the 200 plants that McCaine wants to add where are we going to put this additional waste. We are already running out of space for what we have.

[skipmurf2]

THIS GUY WANTS TO TELL US ALL WHAT TO DRIVE. I PREFER MY FREEDOM TO DRIVE THE AUTOMOBILE THAT I WANT. CHANGE WILL COME TO DETRIOT AND THE WORLD WHEN THE MARKETS DICTATE. BUT THESE ARE FREE MARKETS. LIVE FREE OR DIE.

[truthiseverall]

Oil should be used sparingly !

[Katmandoo57]

Alternative energy will be great. Lets get busy on it NOW! Meanwhile, lets get ANWAR open and feed America NOW. People will starve to death due to turning grain to alcohol which results in a net loss.

You are an idiot being manipulated.

[aimeerhea]

The 800 mile long pipeline is already built and only less than 80 miles away from ANWR. It's the better way. We should still have more efficient cars built, but this will take a long time to fully implement. Why can't we have both?!

[mjrcaliber]

The only choice we have is Drill or Die!

[Whaaat2008]

I totally agree!!!

[Whaaat2008]

It's illegal, so we shouldn't build more plants. My guess is that it's illegal since it costs money and most nuclear power plants are already subsidized upward to 100% This means that the only Nuclear power plants that are ever built are the ones that taxpayers are FORCED TO BUY!

[ed4wb]

1) Darwin died a while ago. He's not working.

2) You're right: "Extinction of a specie [sic] is a natural part of evolution..." When man creates the extinction then, IT'S NOT NATURAL!

[ed4wb]

Waste is a sign of poor design. The best energy solutions like wind, solar and wave, don't create waste. That should be our goal.