(Posted by John.)
In my last post, I mentioned that the recent "find" by Chevron in the Gulf of Mexico seems better timed to influence Washington politics, and that I expected some Congressperson to start (continue?) talking about drilling our way to oil independence. The idea that we can drill our way to independence, or even keep America's oil production from further declines for any serious period of time, is hallucinatory. Any serious plan for oil independence has to have, at it's foundation, a plan for using less oil. Period.
Fortunately, the journal Science has recently published such a plan, and it's one that should be treated very, very seriously.
