Quote from pspr:
If the Dems find a way to get their "cap & tax" legislation through we'll see huge increases in our energy bills. One opinion is that it will push gas to $7 a gallon (at least). At tripple price increases, solar and some other alternative fuels become nearly competitive.
Obama's goal is to increase fuel/energy prices to FORCE green energy upon the U.S. Of course, under his plan there will be a big dip in the economy and green technology is not ready to take over from oil.
I agree that nuclear and nat. gas should be the immediate shift. But the Dems are against nuclear and are fighting nat. gas development. Then there is the infrastructure problem. There isn't any.
In the mean time the only responsible action is to open more areas to oil drilling - including Anwar. However, the government has dropped the ball on ensuring that deep water drilling is fail-safe. And not allowing the proper foreign equipment to help capture the oil in the gulf tells me that Obama wants this to be the biggest catastrophy that it can be so he can use it to push his idiotic energy plans and block drilling.
The whole thing just pisses me off!!!
And Obama is shamelessly politicizing the whole oil spill mess. This "we need to find new sources of energy" bit in the midst of the crisis? It's horrible. Imagine if Bush tried to push something from his agenda in the middle of Katrina...how would the media react? (And I wasn't a big fan of Bush either.)