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Americans CHOOSE to be at the mercy of foreign energy suppliers by insisting on limiting energy development in the U.S., by driving vehicles that are oversized and overpowered for the task at hand, by keeping their ENTIRE home either cooled to 65 in the summer or heated to 75 in the winter (while being hostile to those who design homes to take advantage of natural heating/cooling),and by electing or tolerating planners who zone such that everyone MUST travel mechanically to work,shop, or play.

Americans choose to be dependant on foreign supplies of energy by failing to adequately develop our own resources by locking up ANWAR, large areas of the Gulf of Mexico and the East and West coast where large deposits of oil are known to be and placing restrictions on the use of coal. Americans feel good about the caribou and those on the coast don't have to look at the unsightly oilwells and that is apparently reason enough to place our country at the mercy of overseas suppliers.

Americans CHOOSE to be at the mercy of foreign energy suppliers by insisting on limiting energy development in the U.S., by driving vehicles that are oversized and overpowered for the task at hand, by keeping their ENTIRE home either cooled to 65 in the summer or heated to 75 in the winter (while being hostile to those who design homes to take advantage of natural heating/cooling),and by electing or tolerating planners who zone such that everyone MUST travel mechanically to work,shop, or play.

Spare us the eurothink socialista agitprop, OK?

This is a free country. If I feel like buying my comfort, then I'll buy my comfort. If I feel like living in the country, and driving my car, rather than allow "the planners" to shoehorn me into an "urban center", and "public transportation", well, you get the idea.

Frankly, your kind of talk reminds me of the UN plan for this country -- "green belts", made of land taken from its owners, with humans crammed into planned urban centers.

As we say where I come from, F that S.