quit whining about gas prices and do something! (Los Angeles, Santa Monica: environment, work)

[LAAngel2008]

Are you tired of paying 4.50 and feel something should be done.the following link will take you to sean hannity where you can sign a petition that will be presented to congress to demand that we drill for our own oil in Alaska,California,Florida, and Nebraska and quit giving our money to middle eastern dictatorships that want to kill us.Quit complaning about the high price of gas and do something by signing this petition

American Solutions - Petitions

[BRinSM]

or, you could drive less. thats what i do anyways. lower demand = lower prices.

[GracieJJ]

Share rides are also effective. I also agree, lower demand will be more fruitful.

[JTGJR]

Lower demand will NOT be more fruitful. Foreign energy costs are not solely based on US consumption. Energy requirements by China and India will drive up energy prices far more than any offset from reduced US demand. Until we eliminate the NIMBY mentality, we'll always be defendant on foreign energy sources. I don't want to destroy the environment anymore than the next guy, but we have to start looking for additional energy sources in our own backyard. And we need to do it with minimal impact to the environment.

[GracieJJ]

Additional energy resources from what exactly?

In the mean time what do you propose for joe public to preserve his resources??

[wclac]

I better learn how to drive a standard. I heard they drink up less gas.

[ST CRoix To Seattle]

lower demand will never equal lower prices=because the oil companies want to make the same regardless so the less people drive the higher the prices will go-it has always been that way=in Germany in 2001 i was paying about 8 dm per gallon and demand is lower there than here....they have us by the stones as most american cities force you to have a vehicle by having grade school designed mass transit...I'm a car nut but when I lived in Los Angeles--Redondo Beach exact and worked in Santa Monica I tried the bus a few times work at 8am leave at 5;30 to be on times half the time...Americans are not pissed yet because they still believe the evening news is fact.

[JTGJR]

Originally Posted by GracieJJ

Additional energy resources from what exactly?

In the mean time what do you propose for joe public to preserve his resources??

Nuclear power. Oil off the coast. Oil in Alaska. Natural gas. Coal, where appropriate. The US needs to figure out what we have and figure out how to cultivate it in the safest and cleanest manner possible. But, no one wants to hear anything about it if they live within 1000 miles.

[edelweiss]

I'll sign that petition!

It's only a matter of time before environmentally friendly cars are widespread and affordable for all... in the meantime, is it less of a "sin" against our environment to drill for oil in Alaska than it is in Saudi Arabia? It doesn't make sense to pay so much for oil on the other side of the world when we have loads of it in our own backyard.

I don't see how such an initiative will make it past this congress that we have now or the one we will likely have in November.

[GracieJJ]

Originally Posted by JTGJR

Lower demand will NOT be more fruitful. Foreign energy costs are not solely based on US consumption. Energy requirements by China and India will drive up energy prices far more than any offset from reduced US demand. Until we eliminate the NIMBY mentality, we'll always be defendant on foreign energy sources. I don't want to destroy the environment anymore than the next guy, but we have to start looking for additional energy sources in our own backyard. And we need to do it with minimal impact to the environment.

REALLY???...

And the highlighted stuff below is your answer??

LMAO.... Such fallacy

Originally Posted by JTGJR

Nuclear power. Oil off the coast. Oil in Alaska. Natural gas. Coal, where appropriate. The US needs to figure out what we have and figure out how to cultivate it in the safest and cleanest manner possible. But, no one wants to hear anything about it if they live within 1000 miles.

Coal, oil, nuclear is hardly clean nor safe. Wouldnt you say??

Hows about Solar, wind, hydro.