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Originally Posted by Deanwvu
My only point is... our tax dollars go SOMEWHERE.
The politicians make awful choices as to where those dollars go.... Get rid of oil altogether in the US (Brazil did it--in what--10 or 20 years?), and the middle east can blow each other up all day if they like.
I sometimes just feel that large-scale science and public works programs in the US are gone forever.... The Panama Canal, the Hoover Dam, the US Highway System, the development of the Atomic Bomb (the Atomic Age, really), and putting men on the moon... All those projects were done relatively quickly. The energy problem is certainly more complicated, requiring many technologies and changes over a broad scale, but completely within CURRENT human ability.
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Naw, I don't think they should completly get rid of oil and gasoline. They should just add more alternative systems like electric cars, nuclear power, bio fuels, bio deisels... etc. Think about it. If only 25% of people use electrical cars, only 25% use bio deisel, and 25% of people use gasoline, and the rest of the 25% uses deisel#2 fuel. Wouldn't that drive demand down for all four category? But then at the same time, if you only stick to one category, you're practically screwed if there's a overnight price hike. LOL Nobody likes to be the sucker that pays the higher price of the four, that's for sure.