Our oil addiction
Thomas Friedman is back, and he’s back on the Bush attack, rightly so.
“When a person is addicted to crack cocaine, his problem is not that the price of crack is going up. His problem is what that crack addiction is doing to his whole body. The cure is not cheaper crack, which would only perpetuate the addiction and all the problems it is creating. The cure is to break the addiction.
“Ditto for us. Our cure is not cheaper gasoline, but a clean energy system. And the key to building that is to keep the price of gasoline and coal — our crack — higher, not lower, so consumers are moved to break their addiction to these dirty fuels and inventors are moved to create clean alternatives.”
In his column today, Friedman says our sitting president has squandered two crises, 9/11 and $4.11, the latter being the current average price of a gallon of gasoline, and instead of inspiring America to greater things such as a clean energy initiative, he’s signed a lame offshore drilling executive order.
Imagine what an incentive for clean and efficient energy might do for Detroit. For wind energy. For conservation. And so on. Instead, we wait for the oil companies to feed us more, hoping the price will go down.
Drilling offshore, ,Alaska, and ther Dakotas IS the answer while we buy time to develop alternate methods for propulsion.Sticking it to the consumer and simultaneously screwing up the national economy instead of buying independence from OPEC sucks. Putting windmills around Washington and the likes of this guy would be an easy start to alternate energy along with capturing oral flatulence as an other alternate fuel.
Posted by Dan Mc Knight on 07.21.08.Friedman for president!
Posted by Bill Bryant on 08.04.08.