You know Todd, those are all excellent suggestions alright, however I have to ask you two questions:
Where is the capital needed to accomplish these goals going to come from if the oil companies continue to live by their business plan of the "old status quo school of proactive-ism", not to mention that our government is already presently trillions of dollars in debt, and so The Feds can't afford to step in and provide these needed modernizations of our infrastructure either, can they?
...and...
Where is the "groundswell of support" from the public for these changes, which is always needed to make it known to the powers-that-be that this issue should be placed up higher on our list of priorities, as I certainly don't see this issue holding any "gravitis" by a mostly apathetic american public preoccupied with the day-to-day?!
(BTW...the second question here is why you'll often find me making light of the weighter issues around here, as I feel most people really don't "want to get involved" with these sorts of issues anymore unfortunately, so what's the use in discussing them in earnest...and also why I briefly noted in an earlier posting in this thread that I mostly agreed with JB's somewhat pessimistic view about our country's near-future energy prospects)
Last edited by Dwight; 04/25/2008 2:25 PM.
