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Originally Posted by naturemomma
Given the current state of our policies, you will be lucky if you have any grandkids!! What an assumption that is!!
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All our grandkids.
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Why does it matter if we ask for more oil from the saudi's, or if we produce it ourselves... Same amount of polution, only difference is, we actually benefit. Gosh, that'd be nice for once.
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I would never ask anyone to produce more oil as I feel this would just keep alive the "energy wasting" or "energy entitled" attitude that has a STRANGLEHOLD on our country. As noted by the voters in this poll.
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Our health, and our furture depends on becoming self reliant, once again. The problem is that people such as yourself say it isn't worth it, or that it's not a solution for right now... We had our chance 30 years ago, 20, 10.. and everyone has sat on their ass and now the biggest super power (atleast in previous years) is now dependant on other nations, (who hate us btw), for the growth and prosperity of our country!!! That's just bullshit my friend. Utter bullshit.
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No Bullshit. Our vehicles while the technology has improved and built-in efficiency of them, they have just added size and weight to remove any gain in fuel savings. Our houses and appliances, while better than before have just gotten bigger while our families have gotten smaller. Burning just as much or more fuel as ever is poisoning our nature, momma. Thats is what our health depends on, clean air, clean water, clean nature. Too bad there aren't 11 commandments, with the 11th being thou shall not pollute, or thou shall conserve our planets resources.
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I agree that going green would be good, but why isn't possible to do both??? Have we, as AMericans, decided to limit ourselves? Have we decided that we are weak and not capable to accomplish such a task? I haven't. Though it sounds like you have.
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We could do both if I had my way but we did the oil for the last 30years and look where we are? If you leave it up to the energy companies that have been around forever, their incentive is the "status quo".
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This oil bullshit is effecting our economy, our way of life, and causing starvation around the world. Sorry, but I care about people more than tree's. Or animals. But, that's just me.
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Where was the outrage when we canceled the CAFE standard increases in 2000-2001?
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As far as heroin, seems you're the only one hooked on that. Get a clue!
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Well not sure about heroine, but somewhere else you stated what a wonderful conservationist you were and how I was probably not recycling or whatever. Well from those assessments I can tell that you don't read my posts. I'm always trying to figure out ways to use less energy. Search for posts by seeker and you'll find a pretty recent one with a lot of how I individually try to conserve energy. It is my belief that if everyone in this country tried as hard to conserve energy as I do energy costs would be significantly less.
In conclusion, drill more, drill here, pay less should be replaced with conserve more, conserve now, pay less.