Would you pay $6 to $8 per gallon to stop offshore drilling?

If I drove the best electric car today from San Diego to Vegas, I'd have to stop about 80% of the way there, plug the car in, and wait around for 4 hours (at least) for it to charge up again. In theory, it's great to have one vehicle that gets you to work and back (and errands, etc.) without needing a recharge. People still need to go longer distances than the battery powered vehicles can go.

I'm happy walking or taking the bus for almost everywhere I go these days. I don't go very far from about a 5 mile radius from where I live, most days.

But $8 gas would affect everyone to an enormous degree.

The current economic crisis is largely based upon a spike in food prices due to shortages from turning food into ethanol. $8 gas would drive up the price of everything delivered anywhere by truck, the price of a bus ride, the price of air travel, etc. If people are barely making it on their current paychecks or extended unemployment benefits, the increase in prices for everything gives them a choice of making the mortgage payment or their food and/or medicine.

There's a reason why oil is used - it's efficient. 2x more efficient than coal, and 30x more efficient than solar/wind/whatever.

Nuclear, at least, means we won't have to sit around in the dark without ice cubes.

 

Fuck no.

Drill baby, drill.

 

Well, driving to Vegas is the most important thing. Until they come up with a Vegas-mobile, I'm not on board.

Damn, I thought it had something to do with the housing bubble.

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