So... the 100-Ton bell didn't work, what a surprise.

Where do we get the oil we have to have
without deep water drilling?

"we have to have" this says it all, if anything, this is a
wake-up call, a big one; all this is very complex, SO
darn complex in fact that it's ridiculously easy to solve,
the answer to the toughest questions are often hiding in
plain view; this may be a simplistic view of it all but these
are my thoughts:


There really isn't any other source of mass quantities of oil
anywhere AND even if there was it wouldn't solve anything
for too long anyway and we would be right where we started
soon enough.

Now ask yourself the following:

Why on earth would anyone and/or any corporation in their
right mind (even assuming that "peak oil" was a scam) would
be deep-drilling for oil (up to 40,000 feet down!) in the poles,
in the exorbitantly expensive deep-sea and other hard to reach
spots, etc, if oil was readily available in convenient spots right
on your backyard (and not your neighbors)???!

Even worse is the fact that hosing down oily sand with steam to
extract very little low-quality oil over in canada and other spots
that causes a monumental environmental mess because of the
runoffs, what gives?!   ...now:
 

- Eolic power requires a lots of infrastructure, is unreliable because
of changing wind conditions and can usually only be utilized locally
because channeling that power requires more infrastructure.

- Hydroelectrics are excellent but again require very large infra-
structure and the worlds water routes are changing dramatically.

- Solar is a good alternative but with similar problems to eolic but
with the advantage that the energy produced can easily be stored
locally and are good for "small" domestic use and installations and
for remote locations. The batteries required to store this power on
the other hand are VERY pollutant because of the mess left behind
while mining for the required metals and from the industrial chemical
plants that make the acid and plastic casings.

- nuclear, needless to say, is a mixed blessing and has its own problems.

- hydrogen and bio-diesel (and all others like them) are all a HUGE
joke because they both require more energy and resources to make
than they produce so it's all BS, trust me.

- Internal combustion technology has gone unchanged for a century
and the only reason cars now have more power is because they
consume more gas period. Fuel-efficient japanese cars have light
materials and high compression small engines in their advantage
and do produce good results but they still require gas.

- Hybrid owners, i have really bad news for you... it's a scam.
Yup, sad but true but your dirty prius is way more pollutant that
a filthy hummer because of the industrial and chemical processes
that went behind creating your techy death trap's space-age
components along with it's 80,000 "AA" batteries it uses... and
what do you think will happen to those batteries when they
eventually will have to be replaced, you think they will be
"properly disposed off?"  suuure they will, you just keep telling
yourself that everytime you push that pretty button to start
moving that 2-ton tank around, ok?

It does seems however that Nikola Tesla and others had a few
pretty good ideas on how to deal with alternative energy sources
but were all promptly taken care of by the same people that brought
you the Deepwater Horizon Pay Per View Reality Disaster Porn 2010!

So what's you point stimpy?

listen, I am not a pessimist nor do I see the glass half-empty
and I don't have all the answers either, I'm just a realist that
is half-aware and half-informed, struggling with duality same
as everybody else, but all this lets me see things the way they
really are and things are not so good right now so let's not
sugar-coat them, ok?

The truth is that in the last 200 years or so, somewhere, somehow
we sealed the deal and we all lost our way for good, we turned
dumb, lazy and smug, addicted to comfort, somehow believing
that life, the world and others owed us something and that "rules",
hard work and common sense were all made for your neighbor but
not for ourselves because we are all so darn special and so are our
children, right?  but guess what, they're not.


The truth is that we are all part of a species that somehow divided
itself in to imaginary sub-species and sub-classes and created
imaginary borders and divided the bounty and resources we
thought were no one elses' and were there for the taking but
the truth is that everything already had an owner and a perfect
balance existed everywhere but since we consider any other
species as "inferior" to us we destroyed the all habitats constantly
finding new uses and applications for all the new resources,
exploiting everything with no remorse and eventually became
dependent on all these things and exactly HERE is where things
went wrong because soon later the population exploded simply
because something else was doing all the work (fossil fuels)
reaching our highpoint with the pathetic and contagious presidential
phrase "greed is good" and here we are today thinking
that we are special and truly believing that we have the power to
"save the planet" when we cannot even love and take care of
each other in the most basic ways.  


In reality the planet is not going anywhere, we are; the planet
will survive just fine and the ecosystems will eventually recover
their own way and life will go on and this failed experiment will
be forgotten and the race to the top of the food chain will begin
again.

The truth is that we are multiplying spoiled comfort junkies fighting
for the last few doses all while still ignoring the many many warnings
that we are given every day showing us the right path to follow
wondering what went wrong and why... well DUH!

So finally, what IS this simple answer to solve it all?  
As I said, it's very simple: We don't.

We don't look for new places to drill but look for a way to get
our priorities as a species in order because the more we wait
the more it's gonna hurt when this downward spiral we're all in
finally hits bottom. There is just no other way. Yes, an utopic
society is impossible to achieve but the least we can do for the
meantime while we figure things out is go "back to basics" and
back to simple living and stop wanting and wanting more and
more and more comforts and stuff all the time and UNDERSTAND
THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN NEED AND WANT and get our
asses in gear asap, educate yourself and your children and
understand that ALL sentient being have a right and a job
to do here and the right not to suffer unnecessarily and there
is no reason in the world why YOUR existence should change
this in any way, and yes, this includes your neighbor.


And all I know is that I'm doing my part. Want not, waste not.