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A View From the Swamp – Oil Is Forever

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There are things that we all avoid.  Things we just can’t stand to be around. Things that just irritate us beyond our ability to play nice.

FOX stupidity is one of mine.

I live with my parents for various reasons right now. FOX is on the big TV in the living room all the time. It sucks.

But more than that, it gives my parents a completely fucked up view of the world.  Not a little fucked up – completely fucked up.

The latest point of stupid that Mum has been throwing around is that there is oil forever. Generations worth – all discovered recently here in America and we just don’t have to worry about it. Ever.

Now I might not be an expert on fossil fuels – but I seem to recall something about them running out eventually.  And that our constant use of them has something to do with that eventual running out.

I don’t even know how to deal with this level of stupid, much less from my parents. I don’t want to be guilty of “mansplaining” – but there has to be some way to combat this ignorant position.

But damned if I can figure it out.  Where did all this “new oil” magically come from? How is it that in a nation where 50% of the population thinks Jesus rode a dinosaur some future generation will magically sort out another energy source IF oil does run out? (Mum’s answer when pushed – they just will because they have plenty of time to figure it out because – magical oil.)

I get the whole not wanting to deal with the problems – I do.  But we have to deal with them – we can’t just pass the buck onto other people and hope.  Except we do all the time.

My parents regularly mock me for my concern over recycling, the rights of the poor (in their universe poor = brown, nevermind they both grew up pretty poor) the rights of women to control their own bodies, concern for other people in other nations.  This is just standard for them and I can ignore a lot of it by remembering I can go back to my kosher, Oregonian, recycling, small space home in a couple months after I get my head back together.  But this oil forever shit just makes me insane.

I don’t even know where it came from.  I’ve heard of no new discoveries of oil reserves. Just sort of out of the blue my Mum was all –

Oil will last forever so we don’t have to cut back or give a shit – we just need to stop buying it from those EVOL Islamics – we have plenty.

BWAH?

Oh yeah, the oil crisis is a total liberal lie. There’s so much in the US alone that 6 generations can use it and still have plenty left. You’d know that if you watched FOX.

BWAH? The “easy to get” to oil we have is reserved for military use.

Oh, no.  We won’t ever run out. And we can just carpetbomb those dirtbags into submission and take theirs anyway.

BWAH??? Who the hell are you and how did I end up your child again? What happens when even we run out?

Oh, we won’t. And they can just figure something out in the future when it might be a problem. Which it won’t be.  Because we have enough for us forever.

I don’t think I’m the crazy one anymore. In fact, if this is typical of the region – I’m pretty sure I’m not going to actually get ANY help at all that I need.

So if you know about this sudden discovery of magic Jesus oil that will continually refill because – MURICA – please use the comments to explain it to me. Because I’m lost – and far from home.


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  2. cassandracarolina

    The United Arab Emirates – a place most Fox viewers couldn’t find on a map – enjoyed a booming economy due to their fortuitous geology and petroleum reserves. Their visionary leaders, however, knew that these reserves were finite, and that other revenues sources would be needed to maintain the country’s standard of living.

    As a result, they launched a massive building boom aimed at turning the Emirates into a tourist destination with high-end resorts, cultural centers, luxury shopping, and attracted corporations to build their corporate headquarters in Dubai.

    In Abu Dhabi, they have been building a new downtown area that’s modeled on Chicago, complete with construction of a river and waterfront. I was fortunate to visit there in 2008 and see some of it first-hand.

    Abu Dhabi Construction

    Their plan ensures that the UAE Economy will be sustainable for any years to come as they wean themselves off petroleum wealth.

    As a geologist, I can assure you that America’s petroleum wealth is finite, and that the degree of difficulty, environmental damage, and expense is increasing for the remaining reserves. The only way in which continued reliance on these US reserves is viable is if we somehow cannot purchase foreign oil at affordable prices, which suggests a level of global turmoil that will crush all of us, Fox viewers included.

    Oh, and by the way… those irritating ads with that blonde lady telling people that there are plenty of “North American” natural gas reserves? There’s a reason they don’t say “United States”. They’re counting Canada’s vast reserves in that bloated figure.

    Surely Fox viewers wouldn’t want us relying upon a country that provides health care for their people through a vile Socialist single payer system.  

  3. sricki

    FOXbots too. Gives them a completely distorted view of the world.

    I don’t fight it as hard as I used to. Doesn’t seem to do much good.

  4. bill d

    the same way that we will always have beluga caviar and bluefin tuna.

    There may not be a lot of them and it will be expensive but you can get it.

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