[Nickdago]

Originally Posted by stovt001

Will we really? I'm of the opinion that expensive gas will actually be very good for us long term. Besides, Congress has no business getting involved in these matters. They just screw things up, and besides its outside of their Constitutional duties. Some good reality check readings:

http://www.time.com/time/specials/pa...0.html?cnn=yes

http://money.cnn.com/2008/07/01/smal....fsb/index.htm

http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2008/..._projects.fsb/

And you're telling me you want to give up all of that just so we can propel ourselves from place to place with some antiquated process of lighting old dinosaur juice on fire? Psh, why squash innovation? Future tech is fun.

The first article talks about that fact that Americans are so stupid that the only way they will change is if it is forced on them while the second article talks about how an American company has been working for over 20 years on a new source of power for electricity. The third article again talks about someone who has already been looking to create energy from a thermal source which again has already been going on long before the high oil prices.So which is it, are we that stupid or have we already been looking for alternative sources of energy and have just not yet perfected the technology. I know for a fact we have been working on cold fusion for over 50 years, not because oil is 140/barrel but because this is America and we are always looking for a better way. I think it is obvious to most Americans that we can continue the technology advances we have become used to over our entire history without the pain of high oil. There is no reason for oil to be priced at where it is. In Europe they have been suffering with high oil prices for years and they have done nothing to create technology that would solve the issue, which is really only about the goverment over taxing their people. We will create new and better energy technology no matter what and this idea that we have to suffer is barbaric.