I'm still alive...

Originally Posted by Guru

As incompetent as our government seems, I think they'd probably start doing something about any sort of energy crisis, if it were actually a crisis.

The problem as it is now is that people are still willing to spend and waste money on fuel. If it's truly too expensive to buy gas for your car, there are alternatives. Like riding a bike. Taking the bus. Walking. Or how about getting a fuel efficient car?

But everyone seems content to pay $80 to fill up their Expeditions, Enclaves and Hummers once a week so they can haul some heavy cargo around the neighborhood. Right?

Unfortunately it's not that easy thanks to our horribly ineffective public transportation system and hundreds of thousands, if not more, of Americans have to commute quite a distance to work. Some people live nearly an hour away from their job for a variety of reasons. Some even more than that.

People are not content to pay $80, I've read that people are pissed off about it but again it's still cheaper to pay that amount than invest in an alternative fuel car which is not readily available at this point. We still have no real alternative for oil, but it's coming along.

And Divest, just wait a few more years. It'll happen. It may not be immediate but it'll happen. Gas and oil prices have steadily increased, oil has past the $100, with no signs of going down. Sure there are spurts of it coming down in brief cent points here and there but it always goes back up and often at a much higher rate than that brief down turn.

Jam it back in, in the dark.