The Klare Choice

Michael T. Klare argues for energy independence.

…What do you make of the efforts to push for off-shore drilling?

Let’s begin with the fact that the U.S. only has 3 or 4 percent of world’s remaining oil reserves. There’s no way it will make a huge dent in America’s oil craving. It could only provide a small percent of our oil requirements. At most it will reduce the price by a penny or two and that will be when the price of gas is closer to $10 [a gallon].


When will gas hit $10?

It’s only a matter of time because the world is running out of oil and the demand for oil is rising at a very rapid pace because of the growth of China.

What do you think of Barack Obama’s and John McCain’s energy policies?

Neither is adequate because neither of them addresses the fact that we need a radical change in our energy behavior both to deal with the fact that we’re reaching the end of the petroleum age and we’re facing the catastrophic heating of the planet.

That said, Barack Obama will do a lot more than John McCain will do, so I favor Obama over McCain for that reason.

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