Oil may begin flowing through the Dakota Access Pipeline as soon as next week

[catbarf]

[QUOTE=Sobotnik;51936882]well that's kinda of the reason why to retard the development of pipelines - those make the extraction of oil in the state more profitable and in turn reduce oil prices (hence overflowing the markets with even more cheap oil and reducing incentives to switch to renewables)

if future oil well and pipeline projects kept being shitcanned, that would make it much harder for oil to compete in the marketplace[/QUOTE]

Making it harder for oil to compete in the marketplace by developing clean alternatives is how you wean an economy off fossil fuels.

Making it harder for oil to compete in the marketplace by pointlessly sabotaging the industry is how you cause an energy crisis.

You are offering some awfully simplistic solutions to a problem that's a little more complex than 'just use renewables', 'just make oil more expensive', or other answers that a six-year-old could come up with.

[Sobotnik]

[QUOTE=catbarf;51937588]Making it harder for oil to compete in the marketplace by developing clean alternatives is how you wean an economy off fossil fuels.

Making it harder for oil to compete in the marketplace by pointlessly sabotaging the industry is how you cause an energy crisis.

You are offering some awfully simplistic solutions to a problem that's a little more complex than 'just use renewables', 'just make oil more expensive', or other answers that a six-year-old could come up with.[/QUOTE]

with the climate crisis worsening everyday, i'd rather take a short-term energy crisis than a long-term environmental one

oil already has a lot of advantages that make it harder to wean off - especially when you have a ruler like donald trump in charge - political and economic advantages that additional work will have to be done in order to dismantle them

when we're talking about something that could literally destroy your country, it seems like it might be an idea to try avoiding it

[dark_vivec]

[QUOTE=New Cidem;51932795]So what if pipelines burst and destroy the environment? Money is important! [i]Don't you want money?[/i][/QUOTE]

What if trucks fall over and crash and spill all the oil? Pipelines are generally more reliable.

[OmniConsUme]

[QUOTE=Sobotnik;51938924]with the climate crisis worsening everyday, i'd rather take a short-term energy crisis than a long-term environmental one

oil already has a lot of advantages that make it harder to wean off - especially when you have a ruler like donald trump in charge - political and economic advantages that additional work will have to be done in order to dismantle them

when we're talking about something that could literally destroy your country, it seems like it might be an idea to try avoiding it[/QUOTE]

A Lot of People would Disagree with you, in fact this could cause an increase in oil production.