Thursday, May 11, 2006

What if Cars Ran on Kool-aid?


I am wondering if the envoirnmentalists have forgotten who the dominant species is on this planet? Is it the Caribou or is it we Humans? Trying to protect Alaska, and Canada and it's vast snowy nothingness is silly when we as a human race are at odds over fuel pipelines in hostile countries. All of this is happening when we have more than enough fuel for our own needs for 100's of years right under our own feet. It is said that Utah alone has enough oil shale to provide fuel for an estimated 30 years for the whole US of A. HELLO?!?!? Get off your propoganda and your self serving polotics and think about your fellow human beings and our needs as a society. Do we need war and terrorism to try bargain with evil dictators? Is that good for us as a human race? Hello? Nuclear missles? Is that better for us? Or is it better to relocate and providing care for some displaced deer so we can continue as a society, not end abruptly as a nuked hole in the ground.
The following is an exerpt from an article I found in The Week , called "Gas Prices: Is Congress Stupid?"
"All of us better wise up, said Thomas Friedman in The New Yourk Times. "The recent price spike is just a symptom of our dangerous dependeny on foreign oil, and the cure isn't shaving a quarter or so off the per-gallon price. Through our national fleet of gas guzzlers, Americans are sending tens of billions of dollars to Islamic states every year. That's right: We are financing both sides in the War on Terrorism." Other "petro-authoritarian" countries- including Iran, Venezuela, Nigeria, Russia, and Sudan- are using oil money to bolster their repressive regimes, and blackmail any nation that dares object. At the same time, China's and India's booming economies are ratcheting up world-wide demand- and prices-for oil. This energy crisis, unlike the short-lived gas shortages of the 1970's, isn't going away on its own. Yet the Bush administration sails blithely on, "refusing to ask the American people to do anything hard to put American on a dfferent energy course."
"So bring on the high prices, said James Klurfeld in Newsday. "Only when Americans feel real pain for what they pay for gas will this country take energy conservation seriously, and devote serious resources to developing ethanol, hydrogen, and other alternative energies. "There are no easy answers, and no quick answers, " said Jay Bookman in the Atlanta Journal-Copnstitustion. "But it's no accident that the major challenges confronting this coutry- from global warming to soaring oil prices to our military predicaments in Iran and Iraq- all have oil and energy as their common element." How we respond to those challenges will define the 21st century.

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