The First Thing You'd Do if You Were President

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Originally Posted by LSPoorEeyorick

You speak as though there is no way of decreasing our dependence. This is not so. I get 33 mi/gallon in my little car. When the Metro orange line is put into place by September, I will hardly be using my car at all.

And you state outright that there is no other option for fuel. But what about hybrids? Wind power? Vegetable oil? Mr. Fusion? Why won't they increase funding for such research? The technology exists. Somebody up the ladder is squashing it, and it seems to me like it'd be somebody with their fortune tied up in oil. Hmm. Who do I know who has his fortune tied up in oil?

Meanwhile, scientists have come out and bloody well said that this planet won't be long for this world. It simply cannot support life at this rate for years to come. Our children, and our children's children, are going to suffer. And it will all be our fault.

I hardly drive at all. I have a home office. My wife teaches school less than two miles from our home and our kids go there.

I said there is no other viable option, yes. I am speaking of at present. Hybrids still burn gas, though less of it. Without gas, they don't work.

In a capitalistic society, when the technology exists it will be exploited for profit. As sad as that may be, that is what will drive new sources of energy moving to prominence. Why aren't there more wind farms? I would suspect, though I have not researched it, that there isn't enough profit in it. When there is enough profit in it, it will be done. It has nothing to do with the person you are implicating suppressing it. I believe that wind power and vegetable oil were around prior to his Presidency and yet somehow were still not developed into something that could replace oil comsumption. There was a propsed wind farm off of Martha's Vineyard. "What!?!?!" cried the elite living there. "I don't want MY view spoiled!!!".

Scientists in the 70s were saying we were experiencing global cooling and that we weren't going to be able to grow crops because of it. Now, with global warming, the Kyoto garbage even admits the restrictions proposed will only make a difference of something like on tenth of a degree over the next 50 years. There are also scientists who do not spout doom and gloom regarding the condition of the environment.

There are ways of decreasin our dependence on foreign oil. How about drilling for our own?