Blast From The Past

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[Diana]

This was the same guy who wanted Christmas lights to remain dark in 1979 and 1980. Yikes!

[bartman]

I don't want to sound cynical, but it sure seems like politicians 'recycle' the same rhetoric over and over. they seem to hope that no one remembers the previous time what they just said was spoken by someone else. Specicficly to this video, it's my understanding that our energy crises over the past 30 years have been largely a result of political posturing as well as speculation, not actually supply and demand.

In addition, all of the people who tell us how we are going to have to sacrifice for the common good don't do it themselves.

[Rodman L Singleton]

That's right people... Parry the the topic at hand, which is that our primary energy source is becoming increasingly limited, by throwing out hardly relevant criticisms. What IS an unobjectionable fact is that our reliance on foreign oil IS a threat to our economic and political power, as evinced by the disgraceful display of beggary when President Bush prostrated himself to the Saudis in supplication for lower oil prices last summer.

Independent of partisanship or what bias sources each of us choose to determine that our oil reserves are over- or understated, fossils fuels are finite and we should err on the side of caution by avidly seeking alternatives and implementing radical conservation measures. IT will run out one day! So, we should , at least, act now for the welfare of our posterity.

And yes, Jimmy Carter was right.

[James T]

Rodman... We will NEVER run out of oil.

NEVER!

[Rodman L Singleton]

OK James, the fact that you nor I am a geophysicist disallows any of us from stating the volume of hydrocarbons located within the Earth, in the affirmative. And even they can't draw consensus on the "facts". Good thing that doesn't preclude us from practicing good judgment. The larger problem isn't supply, but which states have possession of oil and the increasing global demand that threatens who receives it. I'm surprised by the position of most conservatives on this issue, it seems contrary to you guys' typical jingoistic and paranoid preoccupations.

Did you forget about $4 oil and the (c)ripple effect it had on our lives? Imagine what a strategic oil embargo would do!

[bartman]

What was Jimmy Carter right about?

[Rodman L Singleton]

....the need for America to devise a new approach to conservation and innovative technology concerning energy.

Maybe it's the verbiage or the person alluded to that obfuscates objectivity for many people here, so I'll rephrase: "What Jimmy Carter said was right... the statement itself...maybe not him...because you have been conditioned to hate something Jimmy Carter says."

[bartman]

Well, seeing as a grand total of 3 people have chimed in on this topic, im not sure if my objectivity has been obfuscated. In fact, I don't think I've been conditioned to hate Carter at all, I went to public school, so I should love him, right? In any case, we should indeed be prudent with the resources we have. And since we're buying oil from the middle east where most people want us dead, I suggest that we strike a deal with Chavez. Yes, you bet that's what we should do. It's much closer and then we can pound a bit of a wedge between them and Russia. I mean, we send billions to the mid east and they seem to hate us more now than ever, so lets at least shorten the trip the oil travels to us and avoid those nasty Somali pirates while we're at it.

We can use this strategy until we get a real working version of the 'Mr. Fusion' attached to our cars.