Mm-kay.
Is there really need for a debate? Seems to me that the cause of rising oil prices is a complete and utter disregard since 1973 of the need to reduce our dependence on foreign sources of petroleum. A willful blindness that has allowed automakers to decide that, sure, 20MPG in the city and 30 on the highway is sufficient, and there’s no need to try to make engines more efficient. And although it’s tied more to natural gas (which we also import) rather than oil, the idiotic and cowardly refusal of people in this country to accept the fact that nuclear power generation is safe and could end up being quite economical (even the French have figured this out).
Frankly, if I got 60MPG in the city and a hundred on the highway, and there were nuke plants going up all over the place, I wouldn’t give a damn about $100 oil.
Alternately, Indianapolis, build me a fucking subway so I don’t have to waste gas driving downtown every other day. Now that I’d willingly pay higher taxes to get.
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In addition, you can trace thr rising price of oil to the falling dollar.
Well, sure, but an expert ought to be able to point to root causes in history. The falling dollar is a recent phenomenon in comparison.
It has infuriated me for years that the government has ignored the need to develop alternative energy sources for 35 years now.
I realize ethanol may not be the best answer to the problem, but the gratifying thing about it is that the boom in ethanol production is a grass roots solution. The American people are taking it upon themselves to create a local source of fuel.
I still think biodiesel seems to be a better solution than ethanol, and nuclear is the obvious solution to electrical generation. I guarantee you though, my next automobile will be either diesel or E85-compatible.