Drill here drill now, pay less! ----must read

[dieselkarl]

Environmentalists are too easy of a target - that whole sense of "the other" that's causing the problem. Yeah, most of them smell funny and tend to be unrealisticly idealist but they aren't the cause of my $4.90/gallon diesel gripes. How about soaring record quarterly profits for the multi-national oil companies that are so horny to drill the Arctic? Oh yeah, we subsidize them with our tax money as well - seems kind of socialist to me. Wall street -the futures market speculators are what drive the price of a barrel of oil with a rate that doesn't accurately reflect actual oil supply. And let's not forget growing global demand - China and India are very eager for diesel.

Yup, definitely Dems and Hippies that have gotten us to this point.

[diesel]

didn't take no 10 years to get fuel to the bombers and tanks in WW2, DID IT?

[Ten*K]

been keeping up on alt energy tech for over a decade.

Nuclear (pronounced Noo-clear not No-cue-lehr, GWB) tech has advanced way beyond direct radioactive exposure. Radioactive material is wrapped in layer upon layer of some hi-tech polymer based shielding... think about the hot cinnamon "red hot fireball", or a "jaw breaker" candy. Heat radiates through, but radioactivity is contained. There still is SOMe radioactive waste... projected at less than a gallon a year versus BARRELS a day.

Geothermal is also got huge potential. Small plant, deep hole down to the frickin liquid hot "magma"



and despite a near 90% loss in energy, enough heat is recovered to power a decent sized city.

Electric cars would be great, IF Chevron/Texaco would stop buying all the patents and companies and squelching them. Just watch "Whatever happened to the Electric Car?" and you'll get fairly pissed off.

Yes, drilling now won't yield benefits for a decade, but we had better start. and we need to increase refining capacity.