Opinion: If BP Is Evil Then So Are We All

[Javaman]

http://www.newsroomamerica.com/story/20193.html

If we were ever in doubt that the world is running out of oil and so-called Peak Oil has arrived then the BP oil disaster should put that to rest, and despite the horror unfolding in the Gulf of Mexico we should get used to the idea of deepwater oil drilling because that is what will keep our cars running for a bit longer.

Or should we get used to that idea?

The Deepwater Horizon oil rig and others like it are perhaps the best illustration so far that the days of drilling a hole in the ground in Texas, inserting a pipe and watching oil gush out are long gone.

The Peak Oil theory relies on common sense to suggest global oil reserves are non-renewable and will therefore eventually run out, with suggestions the supply has already peaked or is close to it and we are now on the down curve.

The flow of oil won't just suddenly stop however, because oil companies such as BP are using more extreme, risky and expensive methods to extract oil and meet the still growing demand, with the Deepwater Horizon being a prime example.

[NYC_SKP]

1. Good points...

Especially the last two lines.

They keep finding new deposits in increasingly difficult and hazardous places to extract, thus the "World's Known Reserves" figure keeps growing.

It has to stop.

:patriot:

[MineralMan]

2. Funny you should say this:

"The Deepwater Horizon oil rig and others like it are perhaps the best illustration so far that the days of drilling a hole in the ground in Texas, inserting a pipe and watching oil gush out are long gone."

You may want to rethink your sentence. Oil does, indeed, appear to be gushing out of a hole drilled in the earth, it seems to me. While I agree with the Peak Oil concept, what you said is not evidence of it. Many will see that gusher of oil as evidence that there is still plenty of oil, and that we just have to drill in the right places to get it.

The Deepwater Horizon rig actually provides evidence that we can still drill and have oil gush out. That's not the problem, really. The problem is that we aren't able to control deepwater oil gushers.

[TheKentuckian]

3. Yeah, lets ignore the profit motives, the buying of pols, the hiding away of technology

the opposition to fuel standards and alternative vehicles, the refusal to use even minimal amount of their giant revenue on clean up and mitigation, the greenwashing, the community economic capture, the buying of judges, the lying PR, and the warmongering and maybe we can talk equivalence.

[Scuba]

4. Nailed it.