Oil leaps above $72 ($72.36/bbl)

Except for immigration, you offer nothing but "failed in the past" dim solutions! More DOMESTIC energy, and alternative fuel research is our only true hope! The rest of your diatribe belongs on the DU!

SOP: Accuse anyone of not agreeing with the objective of being a DUmmie.

The thing is, these solutions, which are as much government policy as is a strategic oil reserve, haven't been followed through. No attempt has been made to make commuter rail as convenient (it would be more so) than is air travel. There hasn't been any follow-through on MPG standards. Gas prices have been too low, actually, to encourage alternative resources.

ANWAR doesn't solve the problem, it just puts it off for a few years. Last time oil drilling went through in Alaska, it was supposed to (1) be sold domestically and (2) give some more time for real solutions.

Besides that, send home the 12+ million invaders, and revoke lots of green cards, send home more workers, and that'll increase available fuel resources. It makes no sense to encourage more population in the most wasteful country on earth.

You are so wrong on so many points. I am for alternative fuels, domestic production, Nuclear Power, Hydrogen Power, more refineries, but I am NOT for socialist solutions that have failed mankind in every instance they have been tried.

Reagan was right, if you want something really screwed up, let the gubmint do it!

LLS

Reagan was right, if you want something really screwed up, let the gubmint do it!

Yeah, and where does this country ever stop dismantling the mess we're in?

FWIW, I'm in favor of gas prices reaching a level that forces conservation or alternatives. And my residences (if the plan holds) will be a house built to be self-sufficient back in the '70s and another with nice access to city stuff and public transportation.

Check this out:

"Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Assessment 2006"

http://www.mms.gov/revaldiv/RedNatAssessment.htm

“The United States Could become the new middle east"

http://www.gilanet.com/wallace/oil.htm

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