I speculated a couple of days ago that the recent shutdown by BP of some of its Alaskan oil pipelines would likely provoke a kneejerk reaction by irresponsible politicians bought and paid for by the oil industry Republicans to increase drilling. As opposed to, say, using this as a wake-up call to address the real problems.
Today's NY Times's editorial page offered an interesting rebuttal to such madness:
According to the nonprofit National Environmental Trust, if Americans had started a 10-year phase-in of 40-mile-a-gallon driving standards in 2001, they would already be saving 267 million barrels of oil a year. That's nearly twice the amount produced annually at the Prudhoe Bay field.
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