Wiseghy -- you're right that _temporarily_ lowering our domestic consumption will only lengthen our dependency. We need to _permanently_ lower our domestic consumption to the point where we can supply our energy needs ourself or by trading with countries that don't want to kill us.
I love how all the free-market analysis out there on these right-wing sites never takes into account what Adam Smith clearly documented in the Wealth of Nations as an exception to the endorsement of unfettered free trade.
Basically put, you shouldn't trade with people who want to kill you.
Why should we stand idly by while SUV-driving 'patriots' go to the pump and send their dollars overseas to the middle east where fanatics are trained that America is the great Satan and that to martyr themselves in the course of jihad will land them in eternal paraside?
I believe in free markets, but funding both sides of the war on terror is insane, and Bush has done nothing to reduce our dependence on foreign oil. Sure, let's drill more in Alaska -- that'll give us enough gas for a few months. But we've got to get serious about technologies that will allow us to maintain our current standard of living while consuming less fuel and giving less money to the terrorists.
I usually don't point fingers and yell troll, but...
Indeed. Being an advocate for freedom, please tell us why we should or shouldn't.
I believe in free markets
Hmmmm....
But we've got to get serious about technologies that will allow us to maintain our current standard of living while consuming less fuel and giving less money to the terrorists.
Should this be the role of the federal government (synthetic fuels, ethanol etc) or should this be left up to the free market?
We need to _permanently_ lower our domestic consumption to the point where we can supply our energy needs ourself
Can you name any countries that have saved their way to prosperity?
I love how all the free-market analysis out there on these right-wing sites,
And what conservative sites and/or think tanks do you suggest going to for analysis?