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In reply to the discussion: Are you OK with the Democratic Congresspeople voting for the Keystone Pipeline? [View all]sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)short-lived, thoroughly destructive Oil Era. And the change to alternative energy sources is happening so rapidly now, (we are always behind the rest of the world on these issues for some reason) that already the demand for oil is down.
Enjoy it while you can, I see Oil Trucks where I live, being replaced with Solar Energy trucks. I didn't expect to see that for many years to come.
It's exciting to be a part of this new era. The Oil Era will soon be history, and a bad part of human history.
Home Depot is now selling do-it-yourself Solar products. When Department stores get into the act, you know the market is there and growing. And as the market grows, the wind and solar products have become much cheaper.
Sorry you are stuck in the past. It was just another blip on history's radar screen, it will pass because it is unsustainable.
IF this disastrous pipeline does come to pass, they are going to lose so much money. That alone has been a real incentive for many people to get off the 'oil drug' and to realize, 'we don't need it'.
Only old dinosaurs of the brief, bloody, greedy oil era are still struggling to justify it. The rest of the world is focused on getting off that particularly dangerous drug.