Old Joe Hill wrote:I agree, if we invest in new non-oil technology we will be forced to generate new science and manufacturing jobs and once again become a profitable world technology leader.   That is going to require students to attend public colleges and universities who are able to attain the large government grants and subsidies to fund research and development (which gasp, the benefits of which we may not see instantly).  And we know what happens when people attend public colleges.  That's right.  They become liberal socialist hippies who will legalize gay marriage.  Which means every straight marriage will instantaneously dissolve and all men will instantly be attracted to each other and then we all die of AIDS.

wayback2002 wrote:I believe that the best energy policy for the United States to follow is the use of fossil fuels.  There, I said it.  We should use as much of oil as possible.  Why?  Simple.  Because every time we spend money on oil/gasoline, a part of it goes to the Middle Eastern governments that hate us.  These governments need money to support their military buildups to fight us.  They also need money to channel to terrorist organizations that will attack us.  

All of this is so important that I believe it is imperative that the US government do whatever it can to get Americans to use and waste as much oil as possible.  They should put down mass transit as social(ism)-engineering.  They should put down higher mileage standards on cars/trucks as government interference.

How's that for a plan?