We must have pain to save Mother Earth. Humans must be eliminated. In the meantime, make things as uncomfortable as possible.

This piece of junk is like an LSD bad trip flashback. Jimmy Carter tried this insanity and history has many pages and pictures of how that worked out for America. You cannot conserve your way to prosperity.

The only way we will ever be energy independent is to become energy independent. By that I mean we have to start drilling for oil and natural gas.

Ethanol is great for racing, because it has a higher octane rating, but it doesn't have as much power. There is roughly 20 to 25 percent less energy mass, by density, in ethanol over gasoline. So, to get the same power, you have to run more fuel volume, which is quite OK for racing, but as a common fuel alternative, it means you end up getting less MPG, because you have to burn more fuel to get there. And since ethanol is just slightly less in cost than gasoline, it is more expensive to run the stuff. And all this before you figure in the fuel used to plant, maintain, and cultivate the crop, and all of the manufacturing and transportation costs! The January 2008 edition of Hot Rod Magazine has a really good article on the up and downsides of E85.

Bio-diesel is a bit better, because of course, the diesel was designed to run on vegetable oil in the first place. But except for the cases of folks who are burning used oil from restaurant's fryers, you still gotta grow stuff, and that means using fuel, and petroleum products. And America doesn't have all that many choices for diesel powered cars. Of course, the trucking fleets could easily run bio-diesel with many advantages.

Electric hybrids are still only successful for short trip city driving, and even at that, they are wildly expensive to own, and if saving money is the exercise, they are a failure. As more are sold, some prices will come down, but if you magically changed every car out there to a hybrid, it has been estimated that within 10 years we'd be back where we are now, in national fuel consumption, because of growth.

Hydrogen is still in the works, but won't be workable for years. It does have potential to be the magic bullet though.

Solar does work, but it also is expensive, and has it's limitations. And just TRY and open a new wind farm! The wackos come out of the woodwork for that! Look at the current fuss over the proposed farm on the South Texas coast!

We need a leader who will give the JFK speech. (no, the other one)We need someone who will frame our situation in the same way Jack Kennedy framed going to the moon. We need a leader who understands oil, OUR oil, is the Nation's best hope for the near term. (as in the next 20 to 50 years) We need a leader who will make drilling for oil a national issue, and help America understand just how much of a security issue getting our oil from madmen is. We need someone who will put the USA on a 10 year plan.

A ten year plan is needed and it should look something like this: Drill for oil. Anyplace that makes sense, like Alaska, or offshore. Anywhere in the country that would really endanger the environment would be off limits, but those are few. Next, we need more refining capability. We import refined gasoline in this country. That's insane. No excuse for not having enough refining capacity.

We also need to start building nuclear power plants. Again, it makes no sense that we don't get more power from nuclear. If FRANCE can do it, surely we can!

Clean coal is a reality, use it! And don't forget natural gas for electricity generation.

Along with this, continue to work on alternatives such a hydrogen, solar, whatever. But realize that petroleum will drive this world for the better part of the next 100 years. Our only real issue is do we want to get it from enemies, or from our own land, remembering America will become more and more of a slave to the whims of our enemies as long as we do business with them. That is the only issue that matters!

I'll bet they lied about Watergate too.