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Originally Posted by MorphDaCivic
...there could be outrageous shortages of food and staple products.
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Got your two-year supply?
Consider the impact that one washed out railroad bridge in the middle of nowhere has had on rail traffic in the West. I am still seeing trains parked on the tracks waiting for their turn on the bypass route.
All angst aside, If we are going to be swimming in domestic oil for the next twenty years or so, why not splurge? Cheap energy makes most everybody happy. Why hobble an already struggling economy with unnecessary mandates for heavily subsidized alternative fuels and unrealistic MPG targets?
When the crisis comes, we'll deal with it. Until then, lets enjoy life. If that attitude works for fiscal policy, it ought to work just as well for energy policy.