Oil-aholics

Drilling for offshore oil as a part of an energy policy should not be surprising. Our basic policies in the US of A have never been sustatinable. What is different this time is that its being offered by a president that I campaigned for. So attached to it is a feeling worse than the venom with which I view the party of extraction,, the OTHER side.. its a feeling of disappointment.

I do understand Obama's philosophy on one very narrow platform.. he is right that we need to keep our energy local and I like the theory that we might not need to fight bloody wars for oil IF we found some here... but that is only a theory.. the wars continue and with an ever increasing, already unsustainble population of 310,000,000 people and growing by 3 million per year the beast of consumption will never be satisfied and sometime we WILL simply run out of the stuff...

Why is there always money to invest in unsustainble polluting solutions when the same amount of money invested in population stabilization and reduction, energy efficiency, and well planned cities with great clean mass transit systems would actually produce long lasting results? The only thing we will get from this policy is more pollution and more debt. Its like we're oil ahoics search for the last drops to keep our society running in a direction that is rapidly leading us to a climate which threatens all life on Earth.