More Drilling in America Issue is Silly

[The Ghost of RubangB]

TheRealMafoo said:

stof said:
It's weird to think that one day, people will look back on the era of Oil, and wonder how we could be so short sighted as to just keep trying to squeeze as much as we could out of the planet while knowing full well that it was a finite resource.

 

That won't happen. We will do with oil what we did with every other form of energy. Find something better before we run out of it.

I said to my friends 5 years ago, that the only way to get off of oil, is for Gas to go to $5.00 a gallon.

Nothing sparks innovation like capitalism. The government can spend billions over many years, and never come up with what Toyota can in a few years, if profit is involved.

Now that gas is high, we have dozens of options coming out. Air powered cars, Plug in's, Diesels entering the US again, Hydrogen Electric hybrids, Natural Gas....

The alternative fuel market is going like crazy, and it has nothing to do with government involvement.

Actually government funding has given us many technological innovations and new sciences that the free market never did: like GPS, RADAR, SONAR, jet aircrafts, meteorology, rocket science, computer science, computer engineering, nuclear energy, better plastics, seismology, oceanography, the discovery of DNA, no-fog ski goggles, stay-dry food and clothes, a bunch of other crap, and the internet.