There is definitely an energy crisis, but as always the best response is found in the free market. This guy wants to shell out the cash to fill up his SUV, that's his business. He has made his choice and has no room to complain about the price.
The rest of us are reducing our consumption by driving smaller vehicles. This will eventually correct the market so long as the liberals quit trying to distort it.
Besides, nothing encourages "green" like "green". You want people to put out less emissions,quit trying to reduce the price of gas.

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Ventura/ Paul '12

That's the dangerous logic that makes me hate Obama... Worse than McCain!

Sure, if we keep raising gas prices emissions will drop, but so will our economy. There aren't any viable alternatives so the answer won't be using a different kind of magical fuel that is now cheaper by comparision, the answer will be quitting your job and finding one closer, or not going to the mall to shop as much, staying home instead of going on vacation. And furthermore, the amount that we would drop emissions by would do virtually nothing to climate. If you wanted to see any noticeable change, China, India, Europe and the rest of the world would need to drop their emissions by considerable amounts. And by noticeable, we're talking .5 a degree.

Is it worth it? Not when the science is so inconclusive, that's for sure.

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No, "we" aren't raising the price of gas. In the long term our actions will result in lower gas prices.
Good ol' supply and demand. As we get more and more gas guzzlers off the road we'll consume less gas. The natural response to a reduced demand for a commodity is a lower price. This will pop the oil bubble, creating radically reduced gas prices alleviating pressure on the economy and giving us the additional side benefits of less emissions and less reliance on middle east oil.
I'm all for energy independence as well and these high gas prices are pushing us in that direction.
All we need to do as consumers is tighten our belts for a while and ride it out. Crazy talk like nationalizing the oil industry and regulating gas prices merely aggravates the situation.

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Ventura/ Paul '12

It's the fault of the ambitious greedy lazy undeserving poor people of the world..."Give us gas, so we can get to work".....cry babies

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I'm of the opinion that we need all sorts of energy to grow our economy. Most of it will be oil for the forseeable future.

Conservation shrinks economies: Anybody remember the recession, bear markets and gas rationing of the 'Seventies?

Get over 'Getting Green!'

Economies grow on consumption and waste: See what havoc conservation has wrought on the European economies. 1% growth? No wonder they ration nearly everything by raising the price. They can't even afford to bathe every day! But the sell lots of cheap perfume!!