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I'm all for forcing us to get off of oil and move to hydrogen, electric, and whatever. To me, it's a matter of national security. Oil has enslaved us. It will always be needed for other things (plastics and such), but if we can get off of it as a source of fuel, we will be better off - personally and with our foreign policy.
Even if you drilled in every available spot in the country, very little of it would go into the gas tanks of Americans.
Why would any oil company capitalist sell it where they would make the least profit.
They wouldn't. They will sell it where they can get the most - outside of the USA.
Using the same tankers that they import with, they would then be able to export.
Maximizing for greater profit.
I'm all for forcing us to get off of oil and move to hydrogen, electric, and whatever. To me, it's a matter of national security. Oil has enslaved us. It will always be needed for other things (plastics and such), but if we can get off of it as a source of fuel, we will be better off - personally and with our foreign policy.
What other freedoms would you like to remove from us by force to satisfy your agenda?
Religion? speech? ideology? property ownership? gun ownership?
Peak Oil... not a tinfoil hat subject but a reality that has to be addressed or civilization itself will collapse within the next few decades. This isn't Obama waking up one morning and deciding to go wild and crazy; this is part of a long-term stabilization plan that is ultimately the lesser of 2 evils. Big O is just another salesman for the change.
Remember that when you are cold and hungry, and be greatful you aren't dead and/or eating your neighbor as it would have been otherwise.
I'm all for forcing us to get off of oil and move to hydrogen, electric, and whatever. To me, it's a matter of national security. Oil has enslaved us. It will always be needed for other things (plastics and such), but if we can get off of it as a source of fuel, we will be better off - personally and with our foreign policy.
That's all well and good but how will an already shaky economy do when gas tops 5.00 per gallon? Remember that menas that the price of food and everything else we use will sky rocket. Can we survive that while we wait what could turn out to be many years for viable alternative energy sources to become available?
Location: In a Galaxy far, far away called Germany
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Originally Posted by Rick Roma
That's all well and good but how will an already shaky economy do when gas tops 5.00 per gallon? Remember that menas that the price of food and everything else we use will sky rocket. Can we survive that while we wait what could turn out to be many years for viable alternative energy sources to become available?
The infrastructure isn't there to make a quick switch. It would have to be a gradual weaning off of it. But, we really should start that weaning process. The process may even create new jobs. I just know that our dependency on oil is hurting us as a nation and it shapes our foreign policy. It rubs me the wrong way that we have anything to do with countries like Saudi Arabia and Venezuela. We really need to be self-sufficient when it comes to the energy that move our nation.
I'm all for forcing us to get off of oil and move to hydrogen, electric, and whatever. To me, it's a matter of national security. Oil has enslaved us. It will always be needed for other things (plastics and such), but if we can get off of it as a source of fuel, we will be better off - personally and with our foreign policy.
You do realize you're only hurting the poor, right?
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