SocraticGadfly: Oil: We have no methadone

May 05, 2010

Oil: We have no methadone

The exact comment, on whether we will, or will not, get over our fossil fuels addiction in the wake of the BP well disaster?
"We are absolutely addicted and we have no methadone. All we have is the hard stuff," said Larry McKinney, director of the Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies at Texas A&M University Corpus Christi. "The reality is we're on it, this incident has happened and what we have to do is figure out how we can move forward."
But, even as Big Oil's normally government-hating Competitive Enterprise Institute almost demands more government regulation to CYA for more offshore drilling, we as a people will learn little from this.

Gas guzzlers will continue to be cranked out. On the other fossil fuel, coal, houses will continue to be built cheaply, with little insulation, and way too big for what people actually need other than to allegedly keep up with some Joneses or else exclude others from their neighborhood.

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