I may seen like a broken record but are we all in the end just a bunch of hypocrites?
I think this is what i meant with the mentality of the average mexican concerning corruption (
@FrankensteinMMA) , but this time is global warming, most people agree that global warming is a problem, but also most people get happy when something happens in the world making oil cheaper and cheaper.
Im as a result torn, i would certainly like cheaper oil products, but then im concerned about the lasting effects on the world.
There were a time when all industrialized nations were powered solely by coal. Now it's petroleum. In the future it will be electricity made with green tech, and we're making excellent progress on getting there, while being self-sufficent.
The solar array on our roof produces more power each month than we need, so is our next-door neighbor's. Yet we freely acknowledge that electric cars are not affordable for most people yet. There will be a time when they dominates the roads, just not yet.
Progress is happening, one step at a time. That's reality.
And in this reality, when we are still in the age of petroleum, North American oil supply is displacing Middle Eastern oil supply, and OPEC can no longer dictate how much each barrel of crude shall costs at a flip of a switch. Self-sufficency is worth celebrating, because it allows us to do other good things, unshackled.
(Oil prices in the open market is not neccessarily going to be much cheaper. If anything, we're going to see it settles in the real price range, when high demands meets plentiful supplies, platforms operating at a small profitable margin at a few dollars per barrel, and enough pipelines to bring the crude where it needs to go.)
Meanwhile, tree-huggers shaking their fists at all these oil platforms and pipelines now is akin to people watching video clips about the world after the Industrial Revolution and shaking their heads at all those coal-powered trains and factories billowing thick clouds of dirty black sooths from their smokestacks. Without that era, we would still be lighting our lamps with peanut oil and traverse the country by horse carriages.
Fast forward 50 years to the future. We now have a solar panel to power our house, yet for we still currently drive cars that "kills Mother Earth", as the Green folks like to say.
That's not hypocrisy, that's just accepting the reality of how progress is made: one step at a time.