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I piped in before and have been reading the post ever since. Time to pipe in again. Cam and I are on the same page, CD and I are not. CD sounds like he knows more about oil reserve estimates than I do and I know very little. Those estimates however can be very wrong. If I read Cd right he is saying spending money to drill for oil is not worth it, it would be better spent elsewhere. Unfortunately there is no short term elsewhere. We have the technology for nuclear already but it will be years before the regulatory and financial risks are minimized enough for someone to step up to the plate. And then it will be 6 to 8 years beyond that for a plant to be built and come on line. We don't have the technology today for solar or wind on any large scale, particularly the technology to store large amounts of energy when the sun's not shining or the wind's not blowing. That technology is probably further out than a nuclear coming on line. In the meantime we'll be more enslaved to the oil rich countries and probably won't even be able to buy food to survive.
The answer is not to abandon one technology in favor of another, but rather to continue to develop those technologies while we do everything we can to get from here to there. That means drilling for oil wherever we can now and hope that the estimates are wrong. If they're not we'll still be better off than we would be otherwise. it's unfortunate but I don't see us having any other choice. Tell me where I'm wrong.
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