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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: combjelly who wrote (145390)4/18/2002 9:28:50 PM
From: i-node  Read Replies (3) of 1574039
 
*Sounding dubious* Maybe. But that is such a simplistic viewpoint. By the time that ANWAR has any effect at all, some money and incentives put into solar cells and fuel cells would have more effect on cutting our dependence on the Middle East. But that make too much sense I guess

This is not true. The technologies you mention are years from making a significant contribution, whilst ANWR could within a year or a little more begin reducing our dependence on foreign oil, thereby bringing stability into world oil markets. Simply put, there is no cogent argument that can be made AGAINST drilling in ANWR (unfortunately, when you have a liberal Senate, no cogent argument is required).

More importantly, hybrid technologies will substantially reduce our dependence on foreign oil long before the technologies you mention. Hybrids will, over the next five years, make a serious dent in foreign oil dependence. Getting mileage triple that of gas powered small cars, we are apt to see a proliferation of hybrids in the coming five years. This will happen, not as a result of liberal drivel or government tactics, but as a result of plain old market forces, supply and demand.

One more problem solved better by government standing back and allowing the markets to work.
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