Why is there no talk about pulling our own oil out of the ground. There is lots of it in ANWAR, in the shale hills of Colorado, and off multiple coast lines.

To me the first step is to open up safe drilling to pull out this oil. In the meantime using some of that money into wind, solar energy, and research on alternative fuels (like fuel cells, nuclear, etc) making them safe for civilian use. Maybe we will have to sit back and watch BP (British Petrol) show us how to do it.

I still stand firm that it will be a detriment to go after 'growing' our fuel. Another aspect yet to be mentioned is the water all the new municipalities are in need. The Arkansas river valley of SE colorado is reverting back to prarie because the farmers are selling their water to Denver Munis. This is reducing the amount of farmers due to lack of irigation water.

It's obvious of course that's because of those enviromentalist people, but the irony is that while they don't want us to drill hear due to the possible destruction of the land and death of animals, it seems to be OK to do it in other parts of the world. Cause unless every one of these enviromental nutcases actually stays away from all types of technology and products that are derived of oil in some way which you can probably say just about everything, they are nothing but hypocrits as far as I'm concerned.

And very near sited.

hmmmm. First thought about the apparent lack of concern by some posters regarding the future crisis in world food supply. We should be concerned about countries shifting thier food growing potential to fuel crops. They will still need food, but they will then have to import it.

Let's think this out.

We start planting bio-fuel crops instead of food.
The price of fuel goes down....the price of food (now at a greater demand) goes up.

The law of supply and demand will hold true. Less food produced, for whatever reason....the price will jump. People won't drive less...what makes you think they will eat less?

An alternative source for fuel....drill Alaska. Continue to grow our own food. Invest in more efficient nuc. power to provide electricity...and use electric/hybrid cars.

Economics say that these two will keep a balance.

You have the law of supply and demand right except that you have two commodities competing for each other. A farmer will play the game and plant what they think will yeild the most. Bottom line EVERYTHING goes up!

Not to mention that we only can produce during harvest time. What are we going to do the rest of the year???? Bottle methane?

*with great sarcasm* Hey why don't we build cars that run on Methane and grow pinto beans. We get food and our car gets fuel! Long trip? Car pool with in route meal. Oh yeah and also works as a cowboy bubble bath! Forget Hemp, BEANS! produces music, powers cars, creates luxurious baths!

VOTE BEANS!

I wrote thisd in June 2007 and now what I predicted has come true, as usual.

Not exactly, but close enough for government work.

Those who did not have "greenies" in their eyes were predicting this as well. While we see the price of oil when we put gas in our car tanks, the price is rippling through the economy and causing world wide inflation. That is going to be painful to cure, but the alternative is a return to the 70s stagflation,and that must be avoided.

Engineered bacteria that convert Co2 to octane would solve all the problems associated with corn ethenol and it's only a year away.

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