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Originally Posted by Quixote's Revenge
1) Holy carp [the fish] !!! How long do you think it takes to build a refinery? And what are we going to do in the interim? THAT is going to be the shock to the economy - just waiting around for something to happen.
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I doubt it takes longer to build a refinery than it took us to get to the moon after Kennedy's proclamation.
Of course, that assumes that the Dems don't block us every step of the way and make their criticisms of the time tables involved a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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Originally Posted by Quixote's Revenge
2) Does adding alternatives, mean taking away gas? I don't think I've ever seen that slippery slope. If you add choices to a market, it will help the consumer. The only people that will suffer are the oil companies. And let me repeat that for you. YOU CAN STILL BUY GAS. Alternatives means alternatives, not replacements. How the fizilydiznuck would anyone even begin to remove all gas from our infrastructure. Your simplification of an argument that you fail to comprehend is a disgrace to whatever agenda you allign yourself with.
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I'm not saying that adding alternatives would remove gas. That's not what I'm saying at all.
Here's what I'm saying:
We currently rely primarily on oil and natural gas. Let's do everything we can to lower the prices of oil and gas in the short and medium terms so that the average American consumer suffers less financially.
Let's also do what we can to bring alternative energies up to speed as quickly as economically reasonable to do so.
I'm all about giving the American consumer as much opportunity and as many choices for energy consumption as possible. That will lower the prices of everything. However, we should also do as much as we can to lower the individual prices of those different options of energy by increasing the supply.
That means we should be pushing everything at once. Let's build as many solar panels, dams, tidal energy receptors, windmills, coal plants, nuclear plants, and drill as many holes in the ground [including the groud below the oceans] as we can.
Let's just do everything so we can achieve low prices and energy independence as quickly as possible. I'm sick of hearing the concept that we shouldn't pursue one method or the other because another is superior. I say let the corporate sector pursue them all and let the market sort out what provides the best products. That's America baby!