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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. I'm not saying it isn't hard on people to raise gas prices. It is. That's why we need alternative energy technologies.
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Yeah, we need more of these great ideas like "corn ethanol"!!! Even Algore has said he was mistaken for supporting this boondoggle. It pollutes more than fossil fuel and costs more too! It also makes my snowthrower run like crap and getting gas with no ethanol percentage added where I lives is $0.50 more per gallon. Oh yeah... my taxes are paying for all that corn ethanol subsidies and people are going without food because the corn is used up.
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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 were aware that about 3% of the land in the US has been developed. I certainly don't think we need to worry about running out of wilderness anytime soon.
Besides, there are areas like
ANWR which (in reality, not the make-believe-media) are nearly as inhospitable as the surface of Mars and likely the drilling will actually improve the area.
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I know not everyone feels this way. If there was an easy solution, we would have already found it and we wouldn't be having this discussion.
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The reason there's no "solution" is that much of the "problem" is fabricated by various special interest groups. You cannot solve a problem that doesn't exist. If you come up with a solution, the creators of the problem will simply adjust their problem to avoid your solution and the largely servile media will parrot their script.
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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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There's a reason the prices are high in those places, so WHY would we want to replicate their mistakes here?