Republican presidential candidate Fred Thompson met with Florida Gov. Charlie
Crist in Tallahassee this morning and said he wouldn’t rule out drilling for oil
in the Everglades. “Gosh, no one has told me there is any major reserves in
the Everglades,” the former Tennessee senator said when asked about the issue.
“Maybe that’s one of the things I have to learn while I’m down here.”
The point that seems to be missing sometimes in these debates is what will be left when we are done. We might be able to get energy resources for a short time out of places like Alaska Refuge and the Everglades. At some point though, those sources will dry up. When that happens, we will have no energy and we will have lost a valuable natural resource that can never be replaced.
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