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Mr.Coffee · 09-30-2013, 08:29 PM

I am a Calgarian that works in oil and gas, my "bread is buttered" by the industry- so to speak.

I believe in the climate science and our contribution to it.

Now what? Do we have alternatives? What could they be?

What are we supposed to do? Do people REALLY grasp how intricately aligned all of our day-to-day lives are with petroleum products? Do people understand that, for pretty much all of us, our entire lives have been one enormous petroleum driven life? None of us even know how to live without it, or what that would be like. To have a winter or famine and, well, die. Transportation is out of the question unless we went back to horses. But the horses need stuff to eat which brings me to... food. Oh... yeah.

So anyway I think the science is nice, but what would be a lot more interesting are viable emission reduction solutions. They are there, sort of?

Can we please, in that instance with emissions being our goal, begin the discussion with COAL? Because yeah, we do have the technology to phase in a much cleaner alternate fuel.

09-30-2013, 08:29 PM	#38
Mr.Coffee damn onions Join Date: Mar 2006 Exp:	I am a Calgarian that works in oil and gas, my "bread is buttered" by the industry- so to speak. I believe in the climate science and our contribution to it. Now what? Do we have alternatives? What could they be? What are we supposed to do? Do people REALLY grasp how intricately aligned all of our day-to-day lives are with petroleum products? Do people understand that, for pretty much all of us, our entire lives have been one enormous petroleum driven life? None of us even know how to live without it, or what that would be like. To have a winter or famine and, well, die. Transportation is out of the question unless we went back to horses. But the horses need stuff to eat which brings me to... food. Oh... yeah. So anyway I think the science is nice, but what would be a lot more interesting are viable emission reduction solutions. They are there, sort of? Can we please, in that instance with emissions being our goal, begin the discussion with COAL? Because yeah, we do have the technology to phase in a much cleaner alternate fuel.