Rather than scour the world for oil that is increasingly expensive and difficult to get, we can jumpstart automakers to build a fleet of plug-in hybrid and electric vehicles that get in excess of 100 mpg.
Though McCain's plan for offshore drilling will not ease the energy crisis, it is dandy patronage for the oil industry, who will be able to make nice profits from extracting and selling the 200,000 barrels per day.
Ray McGovern, former CIA officer, addresses the questions: who is going to own Iraq's oil, and how will a strategic change affect the real players in the area?
With the eyes of the world, and the U.S. media, trained intently on Obama during his week-long tour of the Middle East and Europe, for McCain, there is the question of what to do while all this is going on.
This year, they are rewarding John McCain more heavily than any other politician in America. So far they've given him more than any two senators combined, a whopping $1,010,868.
If you read closely, you'll notice Bush did not explicitly claim that coastal drilling would significantly lower the price of the gas -- because it won't.
Lost amongst all the "solutions" to the energy crisis lies the fact that the energy crisis is simply one component of a much broader ecological crisis.
Big Oil makes more money when prices go up and that money is nicely spread among its allies in Congress. Trusting these guys is like trusting your neighborhood pusher.
The days of merely changing light bulbs, inflating your car tires, and turning down the A/C are over. Gore has challenged us to take the next steps.
"Proposing to drill for small amounts of oil that will be sold to China as a solution to our rising gas prices makes about as much sense as responding to an attack from Afghanistan by invading some other country."
Although it's great to see Bush take on our nations concerns, I must call out five dumb things he said Tuesday. Most notably, "The president doesn't have a magic wand. You can't just say: 'Low gas!'"
This is the fifth and final article of my HuffPo series on finding an optimal solution for Peak Oil and Global Warming.
More people are now moving past the denial stage and are beginning to consider intelligent responses to the env=ergy problems we will face in the coming decades.
Public transit ridership is at its highest level in 50 years. Forget Drilling. We're walking and riding. We drove 1.4 billion fewer highway miles in April 2008 than we did in April 2007, the first drop in 30 years.
On the 12 days before the election... McCain will be saying "Bush Who?" He will be reminded at the polling booth.
Last week, some Democrats signaled that they would be willing to endorse offshore drilling. And on Tuesday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said he might allow voting on offshore drilling.
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Did this rep. have a Dr. Doolittle moment and talked to the animals to ascertain their approval? If that is the case, there should be verification from a reliable source. Until such time, I must disagree with Bo eh ner's claims.
That ecosystem is so important-we should build a road up to it so we could all drive up and see it. I hear the scenery is really beatiful!
Its barran tundra/perma frost.
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I believe that the bigger issue is that we need to leave some ecosystems in a completely natural state. Regardless of whether someone argues that the animals have feelings or not. I live in Colorado, where the natural gas industry tells people that nothing is effected by there work. But if you could see the dust bowl they have created... any American would be shocked! And the worst part is they have already figured out how to avoid ANY ACCOUNTABILITY and that is because Halliburton hires subsidiary companies who shortly after maximizing the profits & extraction file for bankruptcy or "close" and disappear so that a court or municipality have no one or nothing to go after as a recourse. For example. if your child's water she had just been polluted and they no have a new neurological issue, who do you go to for accountability... the answer is no one. And that is the sad, hard truth. Alaska is less populated, so who will regulate these people?
Well, let's put a pipeline through Bonehead's back yard and see how he likes it.
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