My biggest concern with oil prices is that the Saudis who were rolling in money will now have so much of it, they'll have to burn some to make room for the new arrivals of chests full of money.
And what do the Saudis do with all that money.... well one thing I know for sure is fund terrorists.
And don't for get that lovable little commie Hugo Chavez is filling his coffers with oil money too.
We really need to focus on alternatives as a matter of national security. But we depend on a government headed by a former oil man to wean us off of oil dependence. That's a pretty grim prospect.
No you have it backwards. What we need is the Hysteric Left to drop their ridiculous notion that there is some sort of silver bullet that we can find that will suddenly just slay the Oil monster. The need to accept the reality that it is an Evolutionary process, not Revolutionary. We are going to have to tap our existing oil supplies. ANWAR and the Gulf Coast before we can completely convert to the next energy source. The Hysteric Left's notion that they can get "alternative energy" if they fight tooth and nail against any short term development of exist supplies is just stupid. EVEN if the Hysteric Left could, which they cannot, wave a magic wand and create a magic alternative energy today, it will take DECADES to replace all the existing infrastructure with the infrastructure for the new energy source. Look at History. No on in Washington DC woke up one day and said "Right. Today you all switch over to oil" It was a evolution, under market forces, over time. The same process will have to take place to do away with Oil. Unfortunately the Hysteric Left thinks they can just with the 30-40 between here and a viable replace energy source for Oil by sabotaging any efforts at incremental change. That is why John Kerry ran around last year screaming about "a crash program in alternative fuels" it makes the Hysteric Left feel all warm and fuzzy with out actually DOING anything to solve the problem.
No you have it backwards. What we need is the Hysteric Left to drop their ridiculous notion that there is some sort of silver bullet that we can find that will suddenly just slay the Oil monster. The need to accept the reality that it is an Evolutionary process, not Revolutionary. We are going to have to tap our existing oil supplies. ANWAR and the Gulf Coast before we can completely convert to the next energy source. The Hysteric Left's notion that they can get "alternative energy" if they fight tooth and nail against any short term development of exist supplies is just stupid. EVEN if the Hysteric Left could, which they cannot, wave a magic wand and create a magic alternative energy today, it will take DECADES to replace all the existing infrastructure with the infrastructure for the new energy source. Look at History. No on in Washington DC woke up one day and said "Right. Today you all switch over to oil" It was a evolution, under market forces, over time. The same process will have to take place to do away with Oil. Unfortunately the Hysteric Left thinks they can just with the 30-40 between here and a viable replace energy source for Oil by sabotaging any efforts at incremental change. That is why John Kerry ran around last year screaming about "a crash program in alternative fuels" it makes the Hysteric Left feel all warm and fuzzy with out actually DOING anything to solve the problem.
I happen to agree, and would further say that the national security aspect of the matter brings the thing legitimately into the domain of the federal government.
Unfortunately - since the chances are very good that the feds could make things worse instead of better.