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Originally Posted by classicman
It was not just 'energy independence', it was also the environmentalists and the NIMB crowd. They were more concerned with the view from their private beaches.
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Nonsense. Any oil obtained off the beaches - IMBackyard - was already tapped. Those oil platforms were already there. Any oil IMBackyard had been already tapped.
It was 100% about getting domestic oil in 1000 feet oceans. Otherwise oil must come from overseas. Or else America might have to innovate. It was all about building more V-8 GM cars using lies rather than innovating - ie hybrids. It was all about "drill baby drill" rather than 'work smarter'. The policy throughout the 2000s was to do anything to 'protect our oil'. Same philosophy that justified a massacre of 4000 American soldiers in "Mission Accomplished". A philosophy deeply imbedded in the minds of people such as Cheney.
The mythical energy independence meant doing anything to get more oil - rather than address the rediculous reasons for that oil.
Ten gallons of gasoline is burned in a car. How many of those ten gallons actually move the car? Between one and two. More than 8 out of every 10 gallons is completely wasted as heat, noise, etc. Because energy is so rediculously cheap according to those who then say we need to take these risks rather than innovate.