Originally posted by john9001
the USA could cut oil dependency almost over night, do what they did in WW2, ration gas.
painful, but it works, the US govt does not have the courage to do what has to be done. They want to be "re-elected", so all the govt does is talk about the problem and play partisan politics.
This is the same argument and blindness that global warming dweebs make. Take the most simplistic, poorly thought out, and damaging possible course of action and advocate for it. You're missing the entire point, take oil out of the economy like that and it'll make the Great Depression look like a party. BTW, as the US economy goes down the tubes in the name of energy independance guess where the rest of the world's will go?
Mace
