Argue with numbers, not emotions. If drilling wasn't cost effective at the current price per barrel, they wouldn't do it, it's that simple. Perhaps you're unde

Argue with numbers, not emotions. If drilling wasn't cost effective at the current price per barrel, they wouldn't do it, it's that simple. Perhaps you're underestimating how much a drilling rig can extract. You're right about no pricing of global warming externalities, but that has nothing to do with your appeal to incredulity of 'cities on the ocean'. Have you seen the scale of a large offshore wind farm?