Right. Why worry? It's not like Americans need to drive to work. It's not like our goods are shipped in trucks.
Every time our people have been squeezed, geniuses have popped up all over the place. $180 a barrel is pretty tight squeeze.
Yes, a tight squeeze. Remind me what that squeeze in 1973, when oil quadrupled, did to our economy. Did our squeezed geniuses finally build the nuclear powered car? Or did we just go into a recession? That won't be a problem because we'll have all the new sneaker making jobs to boost the economy, right?
It was about that time when serious starts were made to find alternatives. There are alternatives to sources of refined fuels now (not corn or hydrogen), facing barriers to commercial production, not because they don't work.
Why limit ourselves to nuclear powered cars?
Never the less, foreign oil prices can only go up so far before it will be cost effective to squeeze the vast energy resources in oil shale, and other sources The oil argument is not a good one.