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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: steve harris who wrote (390545)6/11/2008 6:28:38 PM
From: RetiredNow  Read Replies (3) of 1572715
 
Nice try. Any new lands opened up wouldn't bring new oil online for 5 years and the amounts they'd bring online would add only negligible supply and decrease gas prices by insignificant amounts. I hate to say this, but there is no one solution to long term gas prices. All of the following will help:
* destruction of oil demand by continued or increased high oil prices
* opening up federal lands for more drilling
* increasing mpg requirements to spur innovation of alternative vehicles and vehicles that get more mpg
* investment in alternative fuels research and incentives getting off the oil
* getting out of Iraq and calming the situation down in the Middle East, so that the geopolitical risk is taken out of the price of oil

To fix the short term price of gas, there's not much we can do that makes economic sense. Gas tax holidays or rebate checks to mitigate the costs of gas are both stupid ideas and buy short term gains at the expense of longer term pain.

So your attempt to say this is the fault of the Dems is disingenuous. Both parties are at fault. The Republicans in particular are most recently at fault since they refuse to talk about ANY solution except opening up more federal lands. That is not a comprehensive solution.
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