Still can't see where the $12/gal figure comes from, but this doomsayer is in the business:

rest: link

Hmmm...that still seems rather high, but then again oil futures are setting record highs every other day it seems.

If you don't set any deadline and assume that we won't get anywhere in replacing oil as a fuel, what he says makes sense.
Eventually we will see $12 a gallon gas if the current pattern continues.

That means we definitely need to start working on a plan to get off oil NOW.

__________________
"Man lives in the sunlit world of that which he believes to be reality. But unseen by most is an underworld, a place that is just as real... but not as brightly lit... A DARK SIDE!"
-opening from Tales From the Darkside

All the money that goes to NASA, oil companies, and corporate welfare should be going to find an alternative! If we don't pull our heads out, we are on the verge of a prison planet controlled by the elite. Who do ya think they (the rich) will ration first?

__________________
There are only two things wrong with this great nation of ours, democrats and republicans!

Not necessarily in that order.

Why not drill first, build nuclear and while doing this fund research for alternatives. Our wait for the alternatives while not doing the prior is why we have the problem we have today.

__________________
Liberals believe it is okay to kill babies
but not terrorists.

How would drilling for more oil prevent the problem? It would only speed up the usage (plus it wouldn't help much without also building more refineries).
And I'm for building some nuclear... but on the other hand, depending on how close they are to something else... why build something that expensive that you're going to be replacing sometime in the near future?

And the problem is that we've just been WAITING for alternatives. We can't wait. We have to put more effort into working on it.

__________________
"Man lives in the sunlit world of that which he believes to be reality. But unseen by most is an underworld, a place that is just as real... but not as brightly lit... A DARK SIDE!"
-opening from Tales From the Darkside

I agree, but I am so disappointed that it didn't start right after the first oil embargo back in the 1970's. It's positively shameful that so many Presidents and Congresses have gone by with so little progress to that end.

__________________
Barack Obama's Executive Flop

If Obama couldn't lead such a small organization as the Chicago Annenberg Challenge to success, how can any one bellieve he can lead this country to it?

I agree. The time to act was then. Pity we squandered the moment.

I agree it's idiotic that we didn't act then, and now we have what we have. How do we get from here to where we want to be?

__________________
Liberals believe it is okay to kill babies
but not terrorists.

Mas my suggestion is this:

I have my state and federal senators and reps offices on my speed dial. I monitor the way they vote and bark at them on the phone regularly. If more folks did this we would have a government far more responsive to the people!

p.s. To anyone reading this, do you know you congressmen and representatives in both the state and federal houses by name? If you don't, you need to!

__________________
Barack Obama's Executive Flop

If Obama couldn't lead such a small organization as the Chicago Annenberg Challenge to success, how can any one bellieve he can lead this country to it?

__________________
There are only two things wrong with this great nation of ours, democrats and republicans!

Not necessarily in that order.