By Eve Savory,
CBC News/ CBCNews.ca/In Depth/Energy
It will be interesting to see whether the news that — putting aside issues of inaccessibility, geopolitical disputes and environmental risk — the Arctic probably has 90 billion
barrels worth of oil will cool the rhetoric of those yearning for a
modern-day version of the Apollo project .
In the last few weeks, U.S. presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain, as well as former presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton and former U.S. vice-president Al Gore,
have repeatedly invoked the spirit of John F. Kennedy, reminding
Americans of one of their country's greatest achievements: the imprint
of Neil Armstrong's moon boot on the Earth's dusty satellite.
But this evocation of the Apollo project, Kennedy's national effort to
put a human on the moon, is not a call back to space, to another and
greater race, perhaps for the stars, nor one to defeat a Cold War
rival, but a race to replace what U.S. President George W. Bush has
called "America's addiction": oil...
Full article: http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/08/01/f-apolloenergy.html
