Quote Originally Posted by tony
10 years is hardly quick, alternative measures surely can be vamped up within that time. Less dependency on oil would do a lot more for U.S Citizens than drilling.
Thats all fine and dandy, but lets be REAL and stop kidding ourselves.

Our entire ECONOMY AND INFRASTRUCTURE is build on OIL. Not hydrogen, not coal, not E85, not "alternative measures". We can sit here an preach alternative fuels all we want but that does NOT change what this country runs on in the next 20 years.

The smartest thing to do would be to start drilling our OWN land and offshore to increase OUR supply and eliviate our DEMAND.

In that time frame, we can explore alternative fuels all we want, but in the meantime we could:

Be making bank with our own oil selling to allies instead of OPEC

We could create COMPETITION with people that right now have NO COMPETITION

We would create jobs

We would lessen our dependence on foreign oil

Would prices drop overnight, absolutely not, but 5-7 years from now, we wont have the problem we have now.

5-7 years from now we will NOT HAVE AN ALTERNATIVE FUEL THAT WILL REPLACE GASOLINE, end of story.

The best course of action is to drill and use what we have now, not explore alternative fuels for 5-10 years that will also have little to no impact on our economy.

I love the liberal Bull Shi.T of "look into alternative fuels and dont hurt the environment". The environment wont be disturbed or destroyed, thats been proven. So we may relocate a few animals, well sorry, thats why we are top of the food chain.