OPEC Up Yours

You will have to take my Diesel from my cold dead hands!

That's the spirit. Though, I believe that alternative fuels should be explored. The first good idea should not necessarily be jumped on though, like they did with ethanol. There IS an answer out there, we just have to find it.

Ethenol is crap. You can't pump it via a pipeline, it has to be trucked or shipped via barge, which makes it impractical. That, and its efficiency rating is much lower than gasoline.

My solution: Drill in ANWR, drill off the continental shelf, drill everywhere! Heckl, I'd even move my kid's swing set so they could drill in my back yard. Whatever it takes to get more oil on the market. With that said, however, I do think that alternatives need to be explored while this is going on. Coal, natural gas, wind, solar, etc., can all be viable, large scale sources of energy. Regardless of what the tree huggers say though, oil is NOT the enemy - ignorance is. Every aspect of your modern life is touched by oil: your car, medicine, computers, etc. are all either made of, or made possible by, oil at some point so getting rid of it altogether is not an option. There exists no known all-encompassing replacement for oil. But for some aspects there are, and those are the areas we should look into.

Again, my post from yesterday seems to have disappeared, so here goes again!!

Yes, I agree!! DRILL DRILL DRILL!!! Drill EVERYWHERE!! I had my drill (with my longest drill bit) in the backyard the other day, but unfortunately, the only thing i struck was dog bones and a buried cat that looks suspiciously like the neighbors' missing kitty (DOOOOOGGG!!)