The Coming Energy Wars

Our government knew this could happen back in the 70's and did nothing about it. Today we are paying the price as they have been too busy counting the tax revenue from gas. We need to stuff a sock in the natural alarmists and start drilling out home to buy some time for new energy developments. We did this to our selves. Big oil greed and a wholesale govermental sell out.

Our government knew this could happen back in the 70's and did nothing about it. Today we are paying the price as they have been too busy counting the tax revenue from gas. We need to stuff a sock in the natural alarmists and start drilling out home to buy some time for new energy developments. We did this to our selves. Big oil greed and a wholesale govermental sell out.

We need to put pressure on Congress to get legislation passed so that we can use the technology to convert coal to diesel fuel. South Africa has used the technology for decades. This country has plenty of coal and the conversion creates a very clean product. We could build processing plants and create more U.S. jobs and not ship any more money to the Arab nations.

We need to start drilling our own oil and natural gas. China has a deal with Cuba to drill oil in the Gulf of Mexico only 100 miles from the coast of the US. Why are we not drilling in Alaska were it will only effect approx 2,000 acres out of millions. Start taping our own resources and keep developing new sources of renewable energy. Why will the government not allow any new refineries to be built? We need to start now or become totally dependent on other countries. If the US is to stay a world leader instead of a third world country people better change their way of thinking. Quit being politically correct and do what???s right or this country is in big trouble. This country was founded by pioneer???s not politically correct pansies. We are giving the biggest supporters of terrorism the means to destroy our country and way of life.

Great article on oil prices. Mow will Americans listen

stop premature acceleration and start coasting a good distance before you stop. your speed takes a long time to drop. you won't get to your destination any later, trust me. turn off the ac and use the vent or open windows. I went from 21 to 28 mpg in a 1992 accord doing the former. alternate energy doesn't need to be researched, its already available! who do you trust to utilize it?

The fact that the global oil supply CAN diminish so quickly underscores the foolishness of relying on it so heavily. For every dollar we spend seeking new sources of oil, we should spend ten learning how to do without oil.

Nationalization is a great idea, because the Federal Government does so many things well... give me a while, I am sure I can think of some example (see social security, welfare, medicare, FEMA,Internal Revenue Code, air travel).

I agree with all the other comments regarding how we are approaching this oil situation. We need to stap all the aid that we are sending to other countries, build our own capacity and manufacture here in the US again and stop importing everything. Tell the Arabs to f--k off and use our technology to produce alternative energies, use our coal and coal oil, drill in ANWAR, build nuclear plants and stop trying to save the world. Bring our toops and all that war money home. Let the Arabs, Afganistan, Pakastan, Iran and all the other sh-ts go to hell.

We have built our entire modern civilization upon oil; history will show this to be the height of folly. Not only is oil becoming harder to obtain; we don't dare even burn the oil that we have left! Our oil-supply woes may, tragically, push environmental concerns into the background, compounding the disaster. Our economy and our environment could easily collapse at once.

The world economy will suffer a terrible hit; today every single modern industry requires a continuing supply of oil to exist. To find a way to remove that requirement, to learn to function in a world in which oil-based fuels are no longer remotely cost-effective should be every country's - and every industry's - number one, emergency priority.

Fossil fuels are a dead end, always have been. The carbon they contained was slowly removed from the atmosphere by green plants over hundreds of millions of years. The supply was always finite (because the original carbon supply was) and we are well on our way to returning those vast tons of carbon to the air in only a few centuries of frantic consumption. An atmospheric mixture not seen since long before the dinosaurs is fast approaching; we must evolve beyond our species lethal short-sightedness before it is too late.

Saudi , China, and many other states subsidize their gasoline and petroleum products. Just as we have done our agriculture products for years.