To most Democrats, “alternative energy sources” means walk the twenty miles to work instead.
uh..duh...
drilling will take longer than searching for alternative fuels?
some of the latter are pie-in-the-sky, and will never compete against fossil fuels.
How long before the sane and rational voters - not the enviro-whackoes - wake up to the idiocy of this statement? Oil is plentiful and cheap - all you have to go is go find it and exploit it. The Dems meanwhile want everyone riding bicycles or mass transit except for Congress-critters with taxpayer-provided transportation at their disposal, while pie-in-the-sky alternatives are pursued. And we've all seen how well the ethanol project has worked in higher food prices....
so the proper follow up question is: are you going to then require every american to abandon their current car and buy a more expensive replacement? That’s a lot to ask of 300 million people. Discard your current car - it is now worthless in this scenario - and pay for a more expensive alternative. That is their short term answer.
The most glaring problem with the “alternatives are the answer” argument is that we have some 200 million gasoline and diesel vehicles in current service. None of them is yet capable of running on alternative fuels yet undeveloped. Replacing the entire US fleet will take over a 20 years (after the amazing snake oil alternative is developed). America is hostage to dictator-oil until for the next 30 years - good plan democrats.
What do you call someone with frontal lobe damage=democrat.
Increasing production and the use of alternative fuels will ease the problem because they are the same cure, get the supply of energy nearer the demand for energy.