FOX9ND's Blog

I read an article in USA Today over the weekend that amazed me.  Chevron is going to invest 4.7 billion dollars to extract oil from the deepest depths of the Gulf of Mexico  A massive platform can squeeze oil out of sand more than 4000 feet below the surface of the water.

I'm amazed at the technology, but I'm more amazed that it's come to this.  American companies find it a decent business model to put out 4.7 billion dollars in a year to feed our oil addiction?  I wonder how much we'll be paying for that gas?  How did we ( me, us, our nation) allow our thirst for fossile fuels to grow to this proportion?  Imagine what would happen if a company spent that same money to further alternative energy.

We can go to the Moon, explore the farthest reaches of the universe, eradicate once deadly diseases and navigate the internet at lightning speed.  So why are we still powering our vehicles with dead dinosaurs?  It was all so easy, so convenient and so cheap.  Now we're behind the curve on new sources of energy... way behind.

I don't know if I'll see the end of oil addiction in my lifetime, but I certainly hope the next generation spends its time, energy, and 4.7 billion on something that's clean and renewable to power its vehicles.