Oil, Nuclear or Hydrogen where is the vision?

I am mad as hell.

Today President Bush called to end the offshore drilling ban.

He said "There is no excuse for delay" and that “Families across the country are looking to Washington for a response".

He proposed the opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for drilling and making it easy to explore the green river Basin in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming.

An 18 billion barrels of oil could be found he says of course, some time in the future, and this should ease pricing today he thinks.

Haven't we done enough damage to this planet. When are we going to accept the fact that the oil producing countries have us by the balls. This applies to us too in Canada we ship our western oil to the USA and buy oil from those other countries to feed our eastern Canadians.

Bush is not the only one with this screwed view, our Canadian government is giving permits to mining companies to use beautiful Northern lakes full of fish and life to dump mining crap and turn them into poluted pools.

Something is awfully wrong with those pictures. Whatever oil we find we will deplete and whatever clean water we contaminate today, our kids will be missing in the future. What are we going to use to make plastics once we've used all the oil to move our asses from point A to B.

J F Kennedy said "We choose to go to the Moon". He had a Vision, he mobilized the scientific community to fulfill the dream and they did it.

I wish JFK was alive today his quotation may read something like this in the future: "We choose to do without oil and move our dependence to Nuclear and Hydrogen Power".

The developed world has the technologies today to resolve those issues and secure a bright future for ourselves and our kids. I have no doubt that once the oil producing countries get the hint of what we could and will do, our balls will spring free and the price of oil will drop. As a bonus we'll have some oil left to make all the other useful products.

I agree with President Bush there is no excuse for delay and that families across the western world are looking to one of the world leaders for a guiding vision.

BCE, still a toss up

We will have to wait a bit longer.

I think the Supreme Court will render its decision on the weekend.

I still bet .. BCE wins this case.