Saturday, October 11, 2008

Will Steger expounds on oil shale
[commenter raylottie responds] Global warming is the new religion of the left, and Will is a high priest. I'm all for developing clean, renewable sources of energy, but Minnesota has some long stretches of calm, cloudy weather and long winter nights. Solar and wind power don't work well under those conditions. Man-caused global warming is a theory; energy vulnerability is real. We need to develop all forms of domestic energy that make economic and environmental sense. Is oil shale one of them? Let's find out.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I'm for expanded offshore drilling and yes even in the Arctic but oil shale should be way down the list. It's nothing more that strip or surface mining and there's GOT to be other alternatives to this.

I'm afraid our country or are lousy leaders will learn nothing from the $4.00 gas this summer. As the economy slows and gas gets cheaper, we'll likely return to over sized houses (that's another issue) and over sized vehicles.

It's funny. The Hummers that everyone loves to hate are returning to the roads now that gas has fallen below $3.50 around here. They were noticeably absent at $4/gal.