Fuel cells and electric vehicles are still not much farther along than 10 years ago. Despite all the headlines, no major breakthroughs have happened.

But oil costs the same to pump out of the ground as it did ten years ago.
It just cost four to five times as much at the pump.

All the good intentions aside, the issue is hot because we are paying four times as much for gas. The long term answer may be hydrogen, it may be electric, in may even be, dare I say it, Ethanol. But we need a short term solution to the price of fuel today.

Someone posted this in another thread, I just can't find it. Punch holes in the ground here. We need to decide to compete with the Arabs and the Hugo Chavez's and any other entity that wants to steal our money. Congress just has to let go of the idea that we can win this gas war by fiddiling with currently unviable technologies while the folks who pay their salaries go broke.

We need to tell the environmentalists that they can cut all the firewood they want, poop in compost toilets, and ride their bike to work. In the real world, people have to eat, cool their homes and factories and drive to work in the cars they have. We need to punch holes in the ground here and get the nozzle, from overseas, out of our tank. And out of our wallets.

Trust me. Bambi will be fine.


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