Posted on 01/14/2008 7:41:37 PM PST by rface
OK, oil is an addiction.
But the MORE expensive, largely unavailable sources of energy - insisting we use them now is not an addiction? It’s not insanity?
I am really struck that even some Freepers buy into the idea we shouldnt use oil and we should disrupt the economy and jeapordize national security to switch to unavailable sources of energy - because that’s what they want and it makes them feel better.
Until they invent the flux capacitor to run not only our cars, but those of 3 billion Chinese and Indians, this is insanity.
“greening of America” ?????? Add that to a long list of things I dissagree with McCain on.
and the baby seals.
Depends...* NEWS FLASH * India has just produced a $2,500 automobile that seats 5 (with some discomfort), is made primarily (chasis) of hardened cardboard and paint and goes 65 mph. It was manufactured, according to its builder, so the "average person" could afford an automobile. Did I mention that India is the 2nd most populated world country and that the vehicle runs on gasoline...
The most populated nation, China, is also producing a cheap car for the "average person". It, too, will run on gasoline...soon the demand for oil will double; then it will quadruple (bearing, of course, if there isn't a WWIII to help alleviate the demand.) Nevertheless, though we indeed need ANWAR now, it won't matter much at that point.
If only those who want to drill ANWR to postpone the day of reckoning by a few months, had half so fervent a wish to stop wasting oil, we wouldn't be in the fix we're in to begin with.
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