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Originally Posted by MazdaMatt
James, i really like that last paragraph.
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Same here.
My Wife asked me the other day about how to solve our "dependency on foreign oil" -- something her students were discussing. Since the topic is common here, I thought, "Well, that's easy. You just, um --"
But it isn't.
After talking it over for while...
The core is to reduce consumption. The secondaries would be to develop a range of alternatives: Butanol, Ethanol, CNG/LPG, Clean Diesel, Hydrogen / Fuel Cell, better batteries and technology for hybrids, Mass Transit, and self-propelled (bike, walk, etc). Regulars here know this stuff.
The public has to be willing to change. If they're not, it apparently takes expensive fuel to do so.
Drilling here? My environmental side says no and to try other things first. igo has a good point.
Basically, nothing is going to change unless
We do.
RH77