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Originally Posted by Jason1
And off shore drilling isnt a short term answer, and it isnt even a long term answer. Its a lose - lose situation. People act like off shore drilling will all of a sudden bring our gas prices down. Not going to happen. At the rates we are currently consuming, the worlds oil reserves will be completley gone in 50 years. Thats a scary though to me, we need to end our dependence on all oil, not drill ourselves out of the problem. We cant just drill more and expect this problem to go away forever.
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I hate to burst your bubble (and thousands of other people who lurk around the dark corners of the Internet) but if there was an efficient, cheap and easy alternative to oil you would be using it right now. The fact of the matter is the eternal combustion engine is cheap and efficient. More to the point, there are millions of cars on the road right now, and they all need gas. The American economy runs on oil, the American war machine runs on oil, and so does the rest of the world. That said, we will need oil for at least the next 10 years. I'd rather tap our resources (like Alaska) and maybe see gas dip in price. Actually, part of why gas is so expensive is because of our dependency on
foreign oil. Foreign oil is a huge fucking problem; our government, the lobbyists, and the Saudis are having a huge circle jerk.
That said...I LOVEEEE alternative fuel. I'm on board, have been for the past 10 years. Yeah, in 4th or 5th fucking grade we did a project on how plastic bags use petrolium and how it increases oil prices and we need to find alternate fuel sources. Here's some fucking beef: nuclear power. The biggest problem with electric cars is....
Tada! Electricity comes from using OIL!
Electricity also can come from using nuclear power....as for excess nuclear waste? Me, personally, I think we should just blast the stuff into outer space but I'm sure there is a reason we have not done so yet.
I'm not so sure hydrogen or ethanol are good long-term solutions. And, right now solar cells suck ass sooo.....
Personally, on the subject of energy, I'd lean towards the guy who had the most money on nuclear power. And on finding a way to lean less of foreign oil.