Thread: If you thought global warming was going to be a big problem, read this...

While I'll admit that crude has to run out at sometime, ever since the first barrel was pulled from the ground this has been a common mantra!
If the U.S. would stop kowtowing to the environmentalists and actually begin producing oil again that moment would be far off into the future! It would also give us the needed time to find an alternate and viable energy source!
Right off the California shoreline we have tons of oil that by law we can't drill for because of an oil spill in the 70's in that area. Funny thing is that area is full of oil seeps under the ocean which put out per year the same amount of oil as that oil spill. If we drilled in that area the pressure would be removed from those seeps resulting in much less oil seepage into the ocean plus give us a steady supply of oil for many years!