*P.S. Al Gore's plan for us to go off fossil fuels COMPLETELY in 10 years is sick. I mean, sick in the 'i feel sorry for this delusional soul' type sick.

*hehehe
Sure we could do it... with a brand new quadrillion billion budget deficit and a whole new great depression - but the environment will be clean.
Quartering earth's population will have about the same effect (on the environment and on people)

The real trick is doing it without destroying people's quality of life - and that's going to take some time.

Significant fast changes in societies always have negative effects (whether they're social or environmental). History gives us many examples of this.

I found an interesting tidbit about gas prices in most European countries. It's not that they are paying a high price for oil, they seem to be paying similar base prices to the US, however, unlike our government which imposes 10% or 15% tax per gallon, most Euro countries impose 50%-100% tax per gallon. So, if they're paying 9 dollars per gallon, 3-4 or even 5 dollars out of that is government taxes.  Finding that out was pretty enlightening.

If US charged that much in taxes per gallon, perhaps we'd have much better freeways and better public transportation too, and I wouldn't mind it as much.

Right now, it's mostly going to line someone's pockets, or to manipulate public opinions when it comes to energy - just in time for elections. For all I know Bush's oil business buddies are doing it to put pressure on public to help push through his domestic drilling proposals or somesuch thing.

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