The New Psychosis: Burn Every Last Drop of Oil
by David Sassoon - Mar 4th, 2008
Psychosis is a generic psychiatric term for a mental state often described as involving a "loss of contact with reality." I had to reach for that definition when I read the following sentences in the New York Times on Sunday in a guest column called Exxon Mobil Needs a Hug.
We should not be beating up Exxon Mobil and its brethren and making them cry uncle to Uncle Sam. A better policy might be to.....encourage them to go after and lock up as much oil and gas as they can for us to burn up.
Hold that thought (if you dare).
Now look at what a columnist in the Wall Street Journal had to say today in a piece called The World Has Plenty of Oil about how much oil is really left and why there's no cause for concern:
Estimates vary. But approximately six to eight trillion barrels each for conventional and unconventional oil resources (shale oil, tar sands, extra heavy oil) represent probable figures -- inclusive of future discoveries.
The two writers must be buddies from the same ward, under treatment for the oil addiction the President warned us about, in denial about the reality of global warming.
Tar sands and oil shale? That's stuff for junkies, I heard Al Gore say not too long ago. Like when your big veins are all collapsed, you look for the smaller vessels in your toes and fingers.
It's not Exxon that needs a hug. It's the guys who wrote those words.
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Maybe the first guy was
Maybe the first guy was being a smart-ass - if we did finally burn everything, would that make everyone finally notice? ;-) Maybe that is a good plan after all...
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