Worrying about how to feed our huge oil appetite, which is a losing battle, since we'll run out sooner or later anyway, we should concentrate on how to get out of that bind. Why look to off-shore drilling when it really won't help much? How many more billions of dollars are we going to throw at wars with oil-producing regions when it eventually won't give us more oil?
As an alternative, I would propose that the government do some really constructive things like get all the auto manufactures (domestic and foreign) together to set a direction toward alternative fuels. Then set a target date when they will all introduce their new line of cars at the same time. This way they can still compete with other features for their cars, but none of them will be afraid that anyone will introduce a gas powered car that buyers simply can't resist.
As a further step, the government could also spend some of the billions, that it now spends on wars, to provide an initial subsidy to the auto makers as incentive to go the alternative fuel direction.
How about it? Could we that are hurting so bad with the high gas prices encourage congress and the President to do this?
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