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Originally Posted by GREENBACK
I, more than most, am concerned about the enviorment but this stuff can be done with very little impact on the enviorment.
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But can it be done without compromising any urgency to move away from fossil fuels? My concern is that, if we tap into more domestic supplies of fossil fuel, people take it for an actual solution instead of the very temporary band-aid that it really is.
In addition, I've heard it been said that even if we approved ANWR and/or new offshore drilling areas today, it would be at least 10 years from now before any of that oil comes online. It's not only a temporary band aid, but we don't even get it for quite some time.
I'm not suggesting that new drilling is necessarily wrong, but that it's almost completely irrelevant in the here and now. If anything, it's only a tiny, tiny fraction of the very long-term plan.