Solar and wind power are NICHE solutions to a huge problem with gargantuan needs. I am in no way saying we should not do these things; just that they should not be what we rely on over the intermediate term. We should be doing everything. Drill, build more nuke power plants, use solar and wind where feasible, synfuels from coal, etc.

My only worry is that if we go ahead and drill for more of our own oil, the OPEC nations will see the threat and open up the spigots, flooding the world with cheap oil and cause our domestic production to no longer be economically feasible. I think some OPEC and non-OPEC oil producers have been holding back production. I KNOW Russia and Venezuela have been doing this, and you all can surmise why they have been doing it – it’s not hard to figure out.

But someone should tell the Al Bore crowd that, in the big picture, what China, India, and Indonesia do completely swamps what we either do or cease doing, in terms of carbon foot print and demand for fossil fuels. This is an enormously weak link in the Kyoto Protocols for that Kool-Aid drinking crowd. I’m sorry I’ve succumbed to sarcasm and mockery, but I am rapidly losing patience with these people.