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Originally posted by fabsroman
Skinny,
We are dependant on oil because it is easy. If we had to, we could change our habits so that we do not use as much oil. I for one have stopped driving just for the heck of it (i.e., pleasure). Most of my driving has been work related lately, and usually my clients pay for the mileage. If all new vehicles sold were flex fuel vehicles and/or hybrids, we would have very little, if any, dependency on foreign oil.
Yes, we live in interesting times, but I would much prefer the good old boring times between the end of the cold war and 9/11. Seems as though Clinton had a cake walk, or maybe this is a result of Clinton's "cake walk."
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fabs
if we didn't buy another drop of oil starting today it wouldn't make a damn bit of difference in what you pay for fuel. if you think the fuel of the future is going to be cheap you still believe in the tooth fairy, easter bunny and santa claus.
you better be thankful for the fuel prices you are paying right now. they are cheap. no matter what they invent some butthead will figure out a way to be a quadruple billionaire off the profits.
one of the big problems today is none of the american oil companies will drill here. why? it costs to much and the envirionmentelests killed them. it cheaper to buy oil overseas than it is to get it here. god bless the greenies. i would have used some different terms for the greenies but there are ladies and children present. we are presently enjoying? a boom for oil in the western part of our state, but don't expect the prices to drop. every body working the fields is getting $20-$40 an hour.
hey, we gots lottsa bucks and we will pay whatever it takes. the only ones that get hurt are folks on fixed incomes and the poor. but who gives a rats rump about them? thats one of those life choices you talk about ain't it?
americans for the most part have outgrown their britches.