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Originally Posted by Forest
thats all well and good but any alternative fuels are a decade away minimum
this is an immediate crisis that needs to be addressed now
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True, but if we don't look towards the future anything we do now will just be a band-aid and will make it even worse down the road. Say we found some miracle way to get gas down to $2.50 a gallon. Great. The problem is it won't last and many people become content with the current situation and stop looking forward.
Every president since I can remember has talked about developing alternative energy sources and none have done. Now we need something dramatically. If we just do something short term and don't develop a long term strategy we are going to be even more screwed down the road.
Right now we are paying for all the years when we were content and did nothing. It sucks, but hopefully we will do something about it.