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Friday Quote

"So baby, you can drill all you want, but what you’ll find won’t keep you on the road" - Jeff Rubin, of Canada's Globe and Mail, in a recent blog post about President Obama's announcement to drill for oil and natural gas off America’s coasts. 

Rubin writes a blog called "Jeff Rubin's Smaller World" in which he covers issues of our energy economy and wearing ourselves off of oil.  How about that, a country's major newspaper with a blog JUST about becoming less dependent on oil.  Cool huh? 

At any rate, Rubin writes in his blog post that Obama’s sudden reversal of the ban on new oil and gas drilling in protected U.S. waters is, "nothing more than a public relations exercise that will still leave Americans facing the daunting reality that they must learn to consume less, not more, of the one substance they have grown so overwhelmingly dependent on."


Rubin argues that despite the announcement, there's just not that much to drill for.  Unfortunately, that won't stop anybody, and even if they come up short, the ecological damage will have been done.  Read Rubin's post HERE.



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