Hi All,
I thought perhaps I might try to throw a few constructive ideas out in terms of how we can lower gas prices, or better yet make high ones irrelevant. May of us here are engineers or at least have some interest in innovation, science, etc. So what about alternative fuels?? This is something I've been researching over the last few days and in away it is like a real live FIRST with the goal of the game being "to eliminate dependence on foreign oil." Imagine a world where we wake up tomorrow and there is no oil it is simply gone. The world would stop period, the global economy would be in ruins. So to me it seems like it would be quite constructive to put our collective engineering capacity into such noble goals as increasing the presence of Biodiesel as one example, or hydrogen fuel cell vehicles. Both of which are extremely clean as well as renewable. If we moved to renewable energy sources it would render the need for oil mute and it wouldn't matter if gas prices were so high. This is something that needs attention because sooner or later we will run out of oil and it is pretty arrogant to just write that concern off to the next generation.
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*Don't nationalize Iraq's oil. Right now we are turn Iraq into a Scandinavian Liberal Socialist state, which is absolutely silly. Privatize the Iraqi oil industry and let companies like Shell and Exxon come and pump that country dry! Think about it guys, we control more oil right now than any other country in the world (Iraq has second largest reserves, we have large reserves ourselves) and we are paying 2 bucks a gallon for gas? We should be paying seventy cents!
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Pump the country dry? This is exactly the kind of egocentric attitude that makes countries around the world hate Americans. Thankfully I do not believe that you speak for most of America. What you saying in effect is that it is okay if we waltz into a sovereign nation, topple their government, occupy that nation, allow thousands of their people and hundreds of our troops to be killed all in the name of you paying 70 cents for gasoline. Sadly there seem to be those in this world who have no problem with that concept. America is numero uno, no one can touch us, and we should do whatever we want in our on interest first and foremost. What would you say to the families of the troops who have died in the name of your oil? Did they have to die? Probably not. I fear it is this kind of arrogance and ignorance that will lead to the unraveling of this great republic. I firmly believe in an America that works together with the world to build consensus and act in accordance with international law, and above all respects it's neighbors.
You claim to be from the greatest country on earth however we did not become the greatest country on earth by bullying everyone else. We became the greatest country on earth because we stood up for what we believed in and through the power of persuasion and by setting an example we were able to show the world that we had created something truly special in democracy. As part of that great democracy you have the right to proclaim your views and I have the right to disagree with them. Think however before you bandy about with 1000's of lives and proclaim that Iraq exists to provide you with oil.
-Justin