Is there an energy tsunami on the horizon?

Question

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hiir4RiaOoe6dOg9zReYKuQa4G2gD91UI8JG0

http://www.energyxxi.org/xxi/open_letter.html

http://www.energyxxi.org/xxi/index.html

Answer 1

Who knows among the men? No man in the secular world. We should drill more in Alaska and Gulf of Mexico which Democrats do not allow to drill because of global warming hoax and which have more than plenty of oil while the Democrats also lieing by saying that oil companies are not drilling millions acres allowed to drill in Gulf of Mexico. Oil companies already drilled the allowed acres and found only too little oil which . Democrats will never tell you. Democrats lie as they breathe in and out. But whatever comes, it will be manageable untill the Rapture.

Answer 2

That's certainly a prestigious group of people saying so.

I certainly agree with them.  We're far too dependent on oil, for starters.  Too much of our power comes coal.  We've got high gas prices with nowhere to go but up, huge greenhouse gas emissions, etc.  We need to do something about it ASAP.

Answer 3

An energy tsunami??  A great flood of energy washing over everything in its path?  No, I don't think so.  I wish public speakers would actually take the time to write relevant speeches instead of throwing every buzz word of the moment into a half hour schmooze-fest.

Answer 4

The three articles are from a very narrow nationalist perspective, seemingly without recognition of global problems being faced.  

I'm not surprised this organization is associated with the US Chamber of Commerce; the USCofC have proven themselves very nationalist, supply side economists; profit driven with no regard for externalized costs, unsustainable growth, or the environment.  I see them as part of the problem, not part of the solution (see link 1).

Only one of their recommendations looks at reducing demand and none or their suggestions recognizes competing industrial economies and energy demand in China and India.

If population and consumption continue to grow at logarithmic rates no amount of supply will ever keep up with demand.  Our doubling times (see link 2) are becoming shorter and shorter, it is impossible for a supply of finite resources to keep up infinitely with growing demand!

The third link you just won't like at all.  It is a report written by a top US govt think tank (about as nationalist as you can get) titled "The Age of Consequences: The Foreign Policy and National Security Implications of Global Climate Change" and it will give you a real bad feeling in the pit of your stomach reading it.

Answer 5

clearly there is a problem looming.

and the first actual request in this is to increase oil and gas drilling.

which won't bring gasoline to market for 5-10 years.

but it will insure trillion$ in profits for the oil companies.

i'm thinking i'll not be signing.

i did note that in the long letter, i had to get half way down before i got to the important part.

interesting that they thought they needed to hide it that deep.

Answer 6

It just looks like the oil co. are just trying to steer the money towards them. Any group that includes the likes of Henery Kissinger is not a "people friendly" organization.