for an oil company to produce the next million barrels to meet demand, as it apparently was because they didn't buy the CO2 for shits and giggles (not to mention that it is the greenest way at least CO2-wise overall to produce the oil people demand -- and if they didn't and prices rose and rose and oil company executives were hauled before Congress to explain),
and considering that we consumers are buying gas-guzzling SUVs and real-man pickup trucks, and making all kinds of excuses for doing so (yeah, I'm a wonderfully wonderful environmentalist, but I have 3 kids and haul stuff around a lot) and can't stand the thought of our houses being more than 1/2 degree from perfect, and on and on about our energy guzzling ways, and yes, we scream when gasoline prices go up 10 cents and post all over DU about how the CPI doesn't include gasoline prices (false, it does), and and
I worked in an electric utility company, and yes, it would be a hell of a lot better if we just didn't produce electricity, as the hippies constantly reminded us over and over and over again and again and again.
Sigh.
let's go to great expense to capture CO2 and use it to pump more oil out of the ground, so that we can burn it
Well then for Chrissake, stop buying the stuff. That includes petrochemicals and plastic.