The Price of Our Addiction

Well stated, but there are alternatives for our addiction: renewables and conservation or "negawatts" and "negaLiters". Sun, wind and water are abundant and available every day.

Most people don't see renewables as alternatives, because corporations have manipulated our thinking. Holding onto, and making use of, what we already have, is much cheaper than "going and getting more."

 

Look, all I want is 450 gallons per year, at a price that doesn't leaves me feeling used. If I drive more than that, I'd have to be doing it for work and then it's THEIR budget paying for it, not mine.

What irks me is how some OPEC-types think $70 a barrel isn't close to the VALUE of oil. Apparently, their aren't any old Arabic tales of shopowners who charge too much and get their throats cut. Or there are, but $200 a barrel is where they'd start feeling nervous.

I don't mind someone dragging the stuff out of the ground, fixing it up some, and selling it at a profit. I don't mind the expenses of looking for more places to get it being included. I do mind when other things like greed drive the price up at a whim.

I don't think I'm addicted. I'm just ticked-off...

 

I heard Michael Klare give an excellent talk on this subject last night. I highly recommend reading his book, "Blood and Oil." The gist of it is that unless we remove ourselves from the state of being a petroleum-based economy, the consequences will be severe- both to the environment, and to our security. Iraq, and soon to come Iran, are only the beginning.
To do this will require a major investment in alternative renewable energy resources (not the lip-service that the current administration pays to it), and will also require radical changes in our way of life (moving away from the suburban sprawl into local, sustainable communities.)


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Ditto, I saw that Modern Marvel's show, but only the last 5 minutes

One thing people seem to forget though is while yes OPEC oil price is sky high, you have to notice that U.S. Oil companies who's job it is to process it send it out have been reporting profits of a level that neither Bill Gates nor the tobacco industry could dream of having. So I'm not going to blame OPEC one bit on high gas costs, you want to blame high gas? Blame Exxon-Mobil, Cheveron, and the whole lot of those scumsuckers. But thanks to the lovely Bush administration who thinks that they should get a ton of research money to research alterative fuels (yah, wolf meet hen house) as well as tax break after tax break, we can continue to get it from both ends at the pump and the voting polls </end rant>