They are saying that if OPEC would boost production by another half million barrels, it would probably drop oil quite a bit. OPEC is actually worried it would crash the market for oil altogether.
In 1995, the republicans passed and sent to the president a bill opening up ANWR.
By the most PESSIMISTIC estimates, ANWR would be producing a million barrels of domestic oil a day for us right now.
Clinton vetoed it, and we’ve never been able to get that close again.
Sure, we need replacements for oil, but you are NOT going to replace something until it is expensive enough to make it worth while, and in the meantime it’s going to cause some degree of pain. Without pain there is no reason to endure the pain of doing something new.
I bought two hybrid cars to replace my car and van. I use about 1/3 the gas I used 6 years ago.
If everybody did that, we’d crush the oil import market. I didn’t do it because government forced me to, I did it because a car is just a car, and if I can get from point A to point B at a 3rd of the cost, it’s stupid not to.
I’ve cut my energy use in my house as well, both electric and heating, through simply commonsense steps.
We already can generate all the electricity we need with cheaper, cleaner nuclear energy, if we just get the will to do it — we don’t need someone to “come up with” anything other than a way to get past the democrats who want to destroy our country in the guise of saving us from “bad energy choices”.
It is useful to understand that oil is solar energy.
Oil is the most dense solar battery mankind has ever seen. All the sun’s energy absorbed by those plants and animals that were subjected to millennia of compression and heat below ground to liquify it. Now we pump up that battery and drain it for energy.
So . . . do not glibly think alternatives should exist. What people are actually looking for is a less effective energy source. It’s very hard to go backwards technologically.