Those of us in the reality based community, i.e. people who think that chanting "drill baby, drill" isn't an energy policy, continue to be frustrated by the fact that the true cost of our carbon-based energy economy are simply not taken into account by a vast swath of the population. One can only hope that these "negative externalities" have been driven home with some potency in the last few weeks by the corpses of 29 dead miners and what now appears likely to be an environmentally devastating oil spill in the Gulf.
I would like to think that coastal states with significant amounts of tourism -- I'm talking to you Florida -- might think again about the safety of offshore oil exploration.
And I also hope that some people on our side may think a bit about the NIMBYism that is holding up alternatives.
We've spent nearly four decades knowing that we had a problem and still progress has been almost non-existent. It's time to make this happen -- even if Huckleberry Graham's feelings have to get hurt in the process.
