david bacon — Wed, 07 May 2008 13:16:51 GMT

Well,

It was the great oil geologist King Hubbert who pointed out to the American OIl industry in 1956 – 50 years ago! – that American oil production would peak in 1971. So what have they done with that data? They’ve denied it and crushed any attempt to find solutions or alternatives to unbridled fossil fuel use. Now they will destroy any undestroyed lands for the insignificant amounts of hydrocarbons they might yield. These yields will have no positive impact on supply at all. Santa Fe, Mora, and Rio Arriba counties are starting to stand up to this madness and saying NO! to new drilling with all of its horrible consequences. The oil industry is acting like it’s still 1956 with their arrogance, name calling, lying, and manipulation and corruption of the political process – a process that’s in bad enough shape already. Santa Feans know we have to get off fossil fuels and are beginning to make headway in this endeavor – not an easy task, but a necessary one. Even Bob Gallagher admits oil/gas is a dead end street, he just won’t discuss the alternatives that are out there. That’s up to each community. Articulating and implementing this path will be the political challenge in New Mexico, and the world, for he next decade. The communities (and sattes) that rise to the challenge, will thrive; those that don’t will crash. While that may paint a simple, brutal picture, it’s far less simple and brutal than the dead end vision of ruined lands, poisoned aquifers, and total environmntal destruction that the oil industry holds out. Unlike the dead end vision of continued dependence on oil and gas, It’s vision with a future.

david bacon — Wed, 28 May 2008 15:50:56 GMT

Can you really call someone who would vote for a Bush 3rd term a “democrat”?

david bacon — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 15:19:03 GMT

WTF??? Over…

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