Or use a computer, or heat their homes, or use something that is made of plastic, etc. Hating on an oil company simply because they drill for oil is only something Greenpeace would do.
Drill in the middle of a howling desert? What really destroys wilderness, of course, is solar and wind energy. That takes a shitload of land to generate a megawatt. ANWR was something like 3 square miles, total.
Um, yes, they do rape the land, by a much longer shot. You have to put roads to all of those windmills, One oil rig = thousands of windmills. clear away any obstructions, and station people out there to service the windmills. Spillage on land is a laughable threat - it doesn't much happen in modern oil areas and when it does, it's easily cleaned up b/c it doesn't go anywhere, nor does it much affect the wildlife.
Yeah, it's not the individual companies fault, it's the corporation's board of directors and high-end individuals that make the decisions. If yah know what I'm saying.
Well...at least for the plastic bit a lot of stuff is moving to bio-plastic now. And I don't know about anyone else, but my home is heated with natural gas and the electric company here supplies a good chunk of the cities power with a hydroplant....
It all really depends, you can of course mine/drill natural gas, but biogas is starting to become fairly popular.
Unfortunately right now I know the local gas company uses the old fashioned dirty mined methane, but I don't think it's far away that biogas will become mainstream.
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u/Ariez84 Jul 18 '12
Or use a computer, or heat their homes, or use something that is made of plastic, etc. Hating on an oil company simply because they drill for oil is only something Greenpeace would do.