http://buffalopundit.wnymedia.net/blogs/archives/6642#comment-229593
Buffalo Pundit wrote today about evil fossil fuels and the entire gang, left and right, seem to have bought into that notion.
I bloviated in a comment:
All of you my friends, with all due respect, are hamsters curled up in an anxiety ball like Lucinda Basset. The purveyors of panic have corrupted your minds. I am speaking to all of you, both on the right like Hank and the left like Pundit.
We are not addicted to oil any more than an artist is addicted to paint. Any more than a mother is addicted to caring. Any more than a teacher is addicted to preparing young people for life. Oil is a tool that has marked the greatest upsurge of mankind. Utilizing oil has revolutionized transportation, countless labor saving devices, medicine, building materials, plastics, food production, and information technologies.
The Earth’s energy is the greatest gift to mankind and it should be celebrated. (I must also add that likewise, mankind is the greatest gift to the Earth.) We are using more fuel today because it is being used to elevate humanity. What do you find so depressing about third world nations achieving modernity? That can’t be a bad thing! As the world most benevolent society we should celebrate the freedom and technology that we export. And I do.
Fossil fuels will be out of fashion and irrelevant well before they run dry because we will innovate more convenient and cheaper energy sources. I have no doubt about that.
Fossil fuels are mankind’s bridge between the past and the future, the bridge between potential and accomplishment. Walk with me across this bridge.
No generation and no society has been more blessed than we are. Opportunity abounds. These are exciting times. There is no time to be curled up like a hair-ball.
