Don’t Laugh. Paris Is Right.

The extremely intelligent people have made a number of alternative suggestions for power production, achievable and useful suggestions, that have been widely ignored or unfunded. This is largely due to the somewhat less intelligent or insightful politicians considering their reelection strategies and special interests rather than long term common benefit combined with an electorate that can't seem to hold their representatives accountable or who simply don't care to pay attention.

Having observed this, and plotted the inevitable trend data...logically its time to consider relocation...so the question of whether there is water on Mars becomes really rather important. Changing the course of human behavior is far more difficult than conquering the technical challenges involved with living on a different planet, and the fact is, if we don't collectively change our behavior, we are in deep trouble.

In the meantime, I have been converting to solar power for home use and for fueling appliances, computers, cell phones, and so on. It isn't all that hard, nor does it have to be super expensive. If we all did more of it, the cost would come down even further.

I have refused to drive the car unless absolutely necessary to conserve gas, and have made arrangements to telecommute as much as possible. If we all did that, there would be an enormous reduction in usage, leaving aside those who absolutely must be on site for work reasons.

Hybrid cars and electric cars are become available and are good options as well. Eventually I could see myself runnign an electric car and recharging it off of solar panels.

We would still consume petroleum in some forms, plastics, manufacturing and so on; but we would drastically reduce what we are using.

We also need to look at how commodities are being traded and our economic system for marketing them. A great deal of what we are seeing is not accounted for properly by the availability of oil, but is more likely due to speculation, people who buy and sell just to take a small slice of the cost as profit when handing it on to the next buyer.

I've no objection to people making a decent profit, but if its only a paper transaction and you did no work to help that product come to market I feel you should not be allowed to profit from the deal. Doing this just drives prices up.

by your logic every leader in every country is an OIL Man and therefore are stopping EMF, free energy , the electric car and every other ficticious alternative plan out there. it must be a mass conspericy by every
government in the world, to not allow a BETTER alternative to fossel fuels. Any alternative will be much more expensive and complicated and the country that stupidly adopts it first will not be able to compete
economicaly with other contries. This GLOBAL WARMING FALLICY will cause the US to become bankrupt
if we allow politicans to lead us down a road other countries will not follow. Wake up and think about
ECONOMICS. show Me the Semi truck that runs on electricity and can make drops to the local grocery
store, how do you think all our goods and services are distributed ?

mbutler80---They've been trying to get that done between l.a. and vegas for the last twenty-five years and it hasn't happened yet and probably won't. Every time they do a feasability study---it's to expensive to build. Like it's gonna get cheaper over time. Politics and morons don't mix.

why does nancy pelosi want to release oil that is intended only for military emergencies but votes down
oil shale which has trillions of barrels of oil ? I am begenning to think she has lots of investments in oil futures (commodities)
Deposits of oil shale are located around the world, including major deposits in the United States of America. Global deposits are estimated as equivalent to 2.8 trillion to 3.3 trillion barrels (450×109 to 520×109 m3) of recoverable oil.[2][3][4][5]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_shale so why cant we explore this , and also the thousands of jobs it will create ?
oh thats why , because the democrats killed it .
http://money.cnn.com/2008/06/06/news/economy/birger_shale.fortune

sources ?

Ban Nascar?!? Never!

at least get your information right....... NASCAR burns about 1.3gallon/mile........... whick means they use
a few tanks in a race. MOST Amaricans burn that in a week NOT a year.......(smiles)

I want to try everything, starting with Paris

Windfall taxes on the oil companies will probably do just the opposite, actually. I know we would like to think that it makes sense, but what is the rational outcome of that proposal? Where does the government spend that money? Does the government spend money wisely? What if the government takes $100 billion dollars from the oil companies and they have to slow down production to reduce costs (hint: lower supply = higher prices)? How much of that $100 billion would then have to be given to foreign oil producers to bring us back to operating levels?

What would make more sense is to ensure the oil companies use the profits they are making to expand US production, which would lower our dependency on the world market. Lower demand from overseas creates downward pressure on prices, and typically, markets follow each other, so if the overseas oil prices go down, so would the domestic oil prices. But then, thats a "perfect world" scenario.