I don't know :dontknow:
How long we'll be willing to lay down and allow ourselves to be robbed?
I think at some point we've all got to step up and insist that significant resources be channeled to the develpoment of alternative energy sources instead of supporting the status quo.
Excerpted from: Americans' 10 Biggest Wastes of Money (Change for a Buck)
By Chris Pummer posted on the AOL money & finance web site:
"Fuel-inefficient vehicles: In the mid-1980s, we all questioned the sanity of people still driving gas guzzlers – and now most of us are spending $40 to $60 a pop filling up our own. The average 22 MPG for U.S. vehicles is unchanged for 20 years because we let Big Oil and automakers seduce us with cheaper gas and more powerful engines. It took Japanese automaker Toyota to give us our first great leap forward in the hybrid Prius and now it is about to overtake General Motors as the world’s biggest automaker. We can’t keep siphoning nasty subterranean ooze and combusting it into the atmosphere without a serious day of reckoning coming. The biggest and most necessary waste of money in human history may be what the world has to spend to stop global warming."
http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/topworldtables1_2.htm
As consumers this should make us
all really angry:
http://money.cnn.com/2007/07/24/news...fits/index.htm
Some other things to think about
:
http://priceofoil.org/2007/11/02/big...oil/#more-1878
http://www.priceofoil.org/oilandstate/
http://www.priceofoil.org/endoilaid/