Miika Grady

Why drilling isn’t the answer

The “drill, baby, drill” chants at the Republican Convention were nauseating not only for their crassness, but because off their incredible ignorance. Somehow, the republicans seem to think that if we just started drilling tomorrow, their would be an immediate impact and all our energy problems would be solved.

The truth of the matter is, it would take close to 10 YEARS before any new offshore oil wells would be able to produce any oil for the market, and at an incredibly marginal, minimal impact as this chart shows.
[ From: Treehugger ]
[ Chart and further info: Architecture2030 ]

Wouldn’t immediate investment in wind and solar power and promoting advancements in energy efficiency be more worthwhile than more drilling? Enough with the band-aids already. More drilling just means more money in the pockets off the oil companies that have had the republicans in their pockets since the Model-T.