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Originally Posted by Darth_Emma
Higher gas prices are the best thing that can happen for promoting innovation in alternative energy sources.
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That's what THEY want us to believe.
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Originally Posted by Darth_Emma
Also, drilling in remote areas solves nothing in the long term. It might help prices for a few years, but it is very short-sighted. We can harm areas that may be the only true remaining wilderness areas and in a few years, we're right back where we started - looking for more. We need other sources of energy that are renewable.
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You could say the exact same thing, no matter where the drilling is done. In California's eyes, EVERY PLACE is or was wild, and should remain or be returned to the wild... but that's not practical.
And who says that oil isn't renewable? THEM?
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If there was an easy solution, we would have already found it and we wouldn't be having this discussion.
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It's called crude oil. We've found it. Global warming? We just came off a cold summer, and got a shit ton of rain... breaking rainfall and snow pack records.
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In the meantime, if you think gas prices are high in the US, go buy gas in Canada or Europe. It's a LOT more expensive there. We've had cheap gas for many many years and are a bit spoiled by it.
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I don't buy it. Anyone can look up the price of gasoline in Canada/Europe and do the conversion. But can you tell me what the cost of living is and compare it to the United States of America? What the average household income is? Do these countries have refineries like we do? Do these countries have domestic oil supplies? How do their economies compare to ours? How about their environmental regulations? - I'm sure they don't compare at all, so we can't really compare what we have to pay in USD to what they pay - converted to USD.
You can't compare apples and feces.