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Originally Posted by CFrance
You are spot on in my opinion. We really need to have the guts to end our dependency on oil. I'm all for the price of gas going so sky high so that public pressure will be brought on the politicians to do something about this dependency. It seems so odd that whenever this starts to happen, miraculously the price comes back down.
The technology is there; the support is not.
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The oil thing is interesting and of course related to the mess in the Middle East.
Politicians of both parties have failed since the 70s to fix it ... Monkei is correct in this instance.
Green is good (and I plan to put solar pv panels on my roof) but, per Newtonian physics, solar/wind/bio etc will never have the sheer BTUs of energy needed to power a modern economy.
Whether we like it or not, our economic prosperity is built upon energy ... and for the foreseeable future that will be fossil fuel based. Thus, to get us out of the Middle East, I say unleash the energy business domestically. In addition, that will create tons of jobs for the working man.
Everyone wins ... would be nice to see that instead of fighting over a diminishing pie.